On Sunday, Davidi legrouzinKitai (pictured) won his third World Series of Poker bracelet. After previously winning two Pot Limit Hold’em WSOP events, his latest piece of hardware came in a $3,000 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max tournament. The 16th bracelet awarded at this year’s WSOP at the Rio was the first by a non-US player, not counting the WSOP National Championship that took place in New Jersey last month.

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Amazingly, Kitai is one of just three non-American players in poker history to win three or more WSOP titles in their lifetime, joining Jeffrey Lisandro (Australia and Italy) and Daniel Negreanu (Canada).

Kitai told WSOP officials following the tournament that the live stream of the final table helped him navigate the heads-up match and added that bringing home a bracelet carried much significance: “It’s very good for me to win not just for Belgium, but for France, too. I have hundreds of followers and everyone was texting me and posting nice things. It is nice when you know the people back home are watching.” Kitai is a sponsored pro of the EU-facing site Winamax.

Americans swept the WSOP medal podium in 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974 to 1985, 1987, 1988, 1991, and 1994. Between 1973 and 1986, Americans won a commanding 156 straight WSOP bracelets, according to WSOP officials. During the “modern era” of poker following the historic win by Chris Moneymaker in 2003, the record for consecutive US wins is 41, set in 2005 and 2006.

Before Kitai’s bracelet had been awarded, the US had captured the first 15 bracelets of the 2014 WSOP at the Rio, dominating in earnings ($27.8 million out of $31.9 million, or 87%) and number of cashes (2,185 out of 2,589, or 84%). Fourteen males had won a bracelet, while Vanessa Selbst has carried the banner for female poker players this year.

All-time, the US has won a staggering $1.2 billion in WSOP events out of the $1.7 billion awarded overall, or 70%. The next closest country is Canada with $103 million (6%). US players have won 788 bracelets out of 970 given away, or 81%.

Here’s how the Six-Max final table cashed out:

1st Place: David legrouzinKitai – $508,640
2nd Place: Gordon stlouis6 Vayo – $314,535
3rd Place: Anthony Ruberto – $200,476
4th Place: Mark RenRad 01 Darner – $132,169
5th Place: John Andress – $89,734
6th Place: Zachary Korik – $62,690

Also on Sunday, 30-year-old George Danzer (pictured) won the first ever $10,000 Razz event at the WSOP for his first bracelet. The German told WSOP officials after the final cards flew, “It’s everything. For ten years now, since I was 21, I always wanted to come to the World Series and be a World Champion. I was always watching the news to see who won and I wanted to be like them. I come over every year and it’s my tenth year now. When you get close, you get a taste of it, and I came close a couple of times. I’m really, really happy now.”

Danzer prevented Brandon Shack-Harris from becoming the first dual WSOP bracelet winner this year and became the second non-American to win a WSOP event in 2014 at the Rio. Here’s how the final table cashed out:

1. George Danzer – $294,792
2. Brandon Shack-Harris – $182,155
3. Todd Barlow – $114,081
4. Yuval yuvee04 Bronshtein – $82,602
5. Brian Stinger885 Hastings – $64,557
6. Todd Dakake – $51,481
7. Naoya Kihara – $41,806
8. David Bach – $34,500

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