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Poker pro Alex Gomes took down the WPT Bellagio Cup V. (Bodog Beat Image)

Tacked onto the end of the World Series of Poker, the World Poker Tour's Bellagio Cup usually draws in a fairly sizable field, despite the higher-than-normal buy-in ($15,000) and the possibility of depleted bankrolls after two months of playing continuous events. However, this year, and mainly due to the state of the economy, the WPT Bellagio Cup V drew in a paltry 268 players.

However, however, that didn't stop the tournament from producing what poker pro Erik Seidel referred to as the “toughest final table” in WPT history and yet another WPT-Made Millionaire. At that final table was Seidel himself, online poker pro Justin "BoostedJ" Smith, Alec Torelli, Christoffer Sonesson, Faraz Jaka and the eventual champion Alex Gomes.

Gomes walked away with $1,187,670 for first place, putting his career tournament winning at $2.7 million after only a year of playing in major poker tournaments. Not bad at all. His previous large cashes both hovered around the $750k mark and were for a fourth place finish at the EPT PCA and a WSOP bracelet win last year in the $2,000 No Limit Hold'em event.

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