Brian Meinders, Austin Scott Latest WSOP Bracelet Winners

Brian Meinders and Austin Scott both captured their first World Series of Poker bracelets in separate events.

Meinders won the Event #25:  Limit Hold’em Shootout, which paid out $116,118 for first place.

Despite being one of the smaller buy-in events at the WSOP, this event drew a rather stacked field. Many professionals swarmed to this event with the hopes of being able to attain WSOP glory. Among those to lose to their first table in this event were Joseph Cheong, Barry Shulman, Viktor Blom, Jonathan Little, Phil Hellmuth, Marcel Luske, Maria Ho and many more.

Fifty players were able to earn the title of Day 1 champion and lock up a guaranteed cash of $3,088.

Scott won the Event #26 Pot Limit Hold’em and $361,797 in cash that came with that victory.   Well known player Dutch Boyd was among the finalists in this event.

- Ace King, Gambling911.com