Angel Guillen 2009 WSOP2009 WSOP Event 32 is in the books, and it’s Mexico’s Angel Guillen who claimed the $530,548 top place prize money and his first career WSOP bracelet. Perhaps most remarkable about his victory is he became the second player in two nights to improve on a 2009 WSOP runner up finish. Guillen cashed second place for $312,800 in WSOP Event #13. His story is similar to James Van Alstyne who cashed runner up in Event #21 and also won his first career WSOP bracelet the night prior.
Angel Guillen is 26-years-old from Mexico, he plays most of his poker online and hopes that his deep runs and bracelet in the 2009 WSOP will help create a “Chris Moneymaker” like “poker boom” in his home country. He’s off to a great start as the bracelet he won last night was only the second ever won by a Mexican.

The problem in Mexico is that poker is not legal,” he said. “So, the growth of poker in our country has been very slow. We are trying to develop that now. We want to make a boom in Mexico. We mostly play online and in underground games — and sometimes in home games. There are no casinos. That’s basically how it works. Hopefully, Mexico will soon export more poker players. … Like Chris Moneymaker did for you [in the U.S.], I want to do the same thing in my country. Hopefully, I can.”

Other notable finishers included Peter Feldman (11th), Jan Sorensen (32nd) and Tony Cousineau (55th).

2009 WSOP Event #32 Final Table Results

1. Angel Guillen ($530,548)
2. Mika Paasonen ($326,203)
3. Jason Boyes ($214,974)
4. Steve Kohner ($150,761)
5. Eric Ladny ($108,883)
6. Daniel Makowsky ($86,548)
7. Christopher MacNeil ($71,192)
8. Antoine Amourette ($61,421)
9. Clark Hamagami ($55,279)