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The $10,000 buy-in main event of the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic started on the 6th December with 413 players. The prize pool was $4,006,100, with the winner taking home $821,612.
 

The very tough final table started play on the fifth day. Soi Nguyen started as chipleader. 
 

Antonio Esfandiari got into the final as last year's winner, but only managed to take place 6 this time. At the 26th blind level, James Dempsey went all-in with around 2,000,000 chips from the Button, and Esfandiari, being the big blind, called with AT . Although he had a good chance against Dempsey's A 4, the board came 7 3 2 4 K, which meant that Esfandiari was out of the game.         
 

Vitor Coelho was next to leave a few minutes later. He went all-in to Nguyen's 120,000 UTG min-raise with only 255,000 chips and got called by both Vanessa Selbst and Nguyen. The two active players checked throughout the A K 32T board, and Nguyen came out as winner with K J. 
 

Nguyen min-raised again, this time from the button. James Dempsey re-raised to 450,000 from the small blind, to which Andrew 'luckychewy' Lichtenberger went all-in with 2,800,000. After pondering for a while, Nguyen called and Dempsey folded.

 

Board: Q 6 4 Q J 
 

At the same blind level, heads-up play started when Vanessa Selbt opened with 160,000, Nguyen folded, and Dempsey 3bet to 450,000. Selbst went all-in with 2,800,000 and Dempsey called. 
 

Dempsey won the hand with two pair.  
 

Heads-up brought quite a fierce battle. Nguyen managed to build a four-time lead, but then Dempsey doubled up. At the 30th blind level (25,000/75,000/150,000) Dmepsey doubled up again, going all-in with A J on the Q 4 2 T board, and Nguyen called with A 5 . The river helped Dempsey as it was the K, awarding James the 12,925,000 pot. 
 

The British pro soon achieved victory; the stacks ended up in the middle pre-flop. 
 

Dempsey won the tourney with a straight.  
 

After his 2010 WSOP $1,500 PLO victory, James Dempsey collected his first WPT title this weekend.