Darren Woods, the Englishman, with $193,000 in lifetime live winnings, won his first major live tournament tonight winning the in WSOP Event 19! The event was $2,500 entry 6-handed, limit hold’em. For his victory Woods wins $213,431!

Event #19 was as important for who won, as for who didn’t win. Coming in close second was female player, Kim Nguyen, from Las Vegas, who came very close to making history and adding her name to the short list of women to win a WSOP open bracelet.

Aside from women’s only events, women have won bracelets since 2003, exactly 7 times, out of a total of 342 (including WSOP-E). The list is as follows:

1. Cyndy Violette (2004, $2,000 Seven-Card Stud/8)
2. Kathy Liebert (2004, $1,500 Limit HE Shootout)
3. Annie Duke (2004, $1,500 Omaha/8)
4. Katja Thater (2007, $1,500 Razz)
5. Annette Obrestad (2007, WSOP-E Main Event)
6. Vanessa Selbst (2008, $1,500 PLO)

At the final table it appeared that Kim Nguyen would get the victory. With three players left it was Nguyen with 1.5 Million in chips, followed by Darren Woods with 950,000, and in third Samuel Golbuff with 225,000. Nguyen knocked out Golbuff with an overpair, versus his 88, on a board of 3492J, sending Golbuff home with $85,616 for third place.

This brought us into heads up with Nguyen holding an almost 2-1 chip lead.

This heads up action was of special interest to Full Tilt Pro Brandon Adams. Before the WSOP started, Adams took $5,000 bets from several players at 1-1, taking the side that a woman would in fact win a bracelet this year. Adams was surely sweating this heads up action, a win by Kim Nguyen would double his investment.

Adams is serious about his prop bets. Less than 24 hours ago, he lost $30,000, betting, Patrik Antonius, that he could beat him in a best two out of three tennis match. As a 10-1 underdog, had Adams been able to win he would have won $300,000 off of, Antonius, the tennis ace, but Antonius proved to be just as tough on the court as he is on the felt. Nguyen was Brandon Adam’s chance to win his money back.

Along with Brandon Adams, rooting hard for, Kim Nguyen, was also a rowdy rail of spectators. Each pot Nguyen pulled in brought a raucous howl, and chants of “Girl Power!”

However it was not to be. Heads up was all Darren Woods, winning pot after pot. He came in serious, focused, and aggressively leaning forward. That combined with run good, and he was unstoppable. What began as a chip deficit, soon turned into an insurmountable chip lead for Darren Woods.

With blinds still at 15k/30k, big bet 60k, Woods kept pouring it on. The final hand, Woods got it all in preflop with K2 verseus Nguyen’s A4. Board came down k46j4 to give Woods the WSOP Bracelet and $213,431!

Nguyen took home $131,900 for second place. For those following the WSOP 2011 women’s bracelet chase, no need to worry, there are still 38 events remaining. The WSOP 2011 will be running until the completion of the Event #58 NLHE, $10,000 championships which runs July 7th-20th.