33-Year-Old Hawaiian Poker Pro Michael Chow Wins First WSOP Bracelet From Event 4.

33-year-old professional poker player from Honolulu, Michael Chow became the second Hawaiian to win a WSOP Gold bracelet. What made the victory sweeter for Chow, who spends most of his time playing poker in Las Vegas and the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles, was that the final table wrapped up during the early hours of his 33rd birthday! Michael, formerly a real estate broker and investor, decided to play poker full time in 2007. He now has $643,237 in career tournament earnings, with 6 WSOP finishes in the money.

Michael Chow won his first World Series of Poker bracelet by defeating the 818-player field in the Event 4: $1,500 Omaha high-low split. The 3rd-largest Omaha high-low split event on the 2010 WSOP created a massive prize pool of $1,104,300, with Chow taking home his cool $237,463 first prize.

"This means a lot," said Michael Chow after his remarkable win. "I have been working hard trying to make a living for the past four or five years. I made a final table at the WSOP before, and I won a Bellagio event. So I have had cashes here and there. But to win a gold bracelet, that's everything to me. This means everything right here. It makes me feel a lot better about everything I am doing."

Chow defeated fellow pro Dan Heimiller after a lengthy heads-up battle to win the event. Both poker players were all-in for their tournament life at one point or another, and it seemed that the short stack was just always destined to double up. Heimiller was the only player entering the final table to hold WSOP gold, but fell short of winning another Gold bracelet, a feeling he unfortunately has felt often. This was his second runner-up finish at the WSOP so far, along with 2 other third-place finishes. Nevertheless, Heimiller now has about $3 million in poker career earnings.

Dan Heimiller is a 48-year-old poker pro from Las Vegas who won his gold bracelet back in 2002 in the Seven-Card Stud championship.

Among the other notable finishers was the 2008 November Niner Ylon Schwartz. A former chess master originally from New York City, he is best known for finishing 4th in the 2008 WSOP Main Event and was part of the original "November Nine." After the 2008 WSOP main event, Schwartz has made 2 more final tables on this prestigious tournament, finishing third in both of them. Schwartz now collected more than $4 million in WSOP winnings alone.

The fourth-place finisher was Fred Koubi, from Van Nuys, CA. A fixture at major poker tournaments for many years, Koubi now has 4 WSOP cashes. The fifth-place finisher was Scott Epstein, from Las Vegas, who now has 8 WSOP cashes. Other notable poker faces from the Event 4 are Jeff Madsen on the 12th place, Huck Seed on the 18th place and David Bach with 24th place. See the complete results of Event 4 at the 2010 World Series of Poker below:

Event 4: Omaha high-low split eight-or-better
Buy-in: $1,500
Entries: 818
Prize pool: $1,104,300
Players in the money: 81

1. Michael Chow - $237,140
2. Dan Heimiller - $146,505
3. Ylon Schwartz - $94,446
4. Fred Koubi - $69,188
5. Scott Epstein - $51,431
6. Michael Cipolla - $38,747
7. Sasha Rosewood - $29,548
8. Joe Leibman - $22,798
9. Todd Barlow - $17,780
10. James Mcwhorter - $14,030
11. Stephen Su - $14,030
12. Jeff Madsen - $14,030
13. Hamid Salari - $11,316
14. Chris Viox - $11,316
15. Robert Ferdinand - $11,316
16. Andreas Krause - $9,099
17. Mike Puskarich - $9,099
18. Huck Seed - $9,099
19. Ward Crane - $7,445
20. Brian Lives - $7,445
21. Shawn Buchanan - $7,445
22. Anthony Reategui - $7,445
23. Jesse Hollander - $7,445
24. David Bach - $7,445
25. Ron Ware - $7,445
26. Steve Cowley - $7,445
27. Chau Giang - $7,445
28. Jason Stern - $6,129
29. Robert Goldfarb - $6,129
30. Bradley Libson - $6,129
31. Lonnie Heimowitz - $6,129
32. Thomas Schneider - $6,129
33. Ed Smith - $6,129
34. Clinton Steelman - $6,129
35. John Parker - $6,129
36. Robert Kearse - $6,129
37. Robert Lipkin - $5,124
38. Ty Takishita - $5,124
39. Allen Kessler - $5,124
40. Larry Etherington - $5,124
41. Sam Mudaro - $5,124
42. Craig Natte - $5,124
43. Dean Jackson - $5,124
44. Daniel Quach - $5,124
45. Daniel Baldev - $5,124
46. Dennis Seagle - $4,296
47. Thomas McCormick - $4,296
48. Jordan Seigel - $4,296
49. James Collopy - $4,296
50. Paul Fisher - $4,296
51. Charles Thompson - $4,296
52. Todd Brunson - $4,296
53. Matthew Waxman - $4,296
54. Alan Engel - $4,296
55. Gregory Mascio - $3,629
56. Mario Zeledon - $3,629
57. Allen Chang - $3,629
58. Mark Ferguson - $3,629
59. Oleg Shamardin - $3,629
60. Samuel Smith - $3,629
61. Ron Ware - $3,629
62. Joseph Spanne - $3,629
63. Michael Moed - $3,629
64. Cameron Mckinley - $3,103
65. Kevin Murphy - $3,103
66. Suk Sung - $3,103
67. Clarke Hill - $3,103
68. Paul Zibits - $3,103
69. Kenneth Dillon - $3,103
70. John Bunch - $3,103
71. Walter Smiley - $3,103
72. John Farrington - $3,103
73. Berry Johnston - $2,750
74. Shawn Koehn - $2,750
75. Charles Jett - $2,750
76. Fu Wong - $2,750
77. Andrew Black - $2,750
78. Jeffrey Dewitt - $2,750
79. Jeffrey Planck - $2,750
80. Douglas Kovacs - $2,750
81. Ken Lennaard - $2,750