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Wednesday 1st November 2006
Inaugural WPT Events in Canada a Success
With the first-ever World Poker Tour (WPT) Canadian tournament stops in the history books, Fallsview Casino Resort has crowned its two new WPT title winners – one each for the inaugural WPT Canadian Open and the WPT North American Poker Championship (NAPC).
From October 22 to October 28, a combined field of 793 local and US poker players attended the two events, which had a combined prize pool of almost $5.7 million. A number of pros including Daniel Negreanu, Isabelle Mercier, Alan Cunningham and Barry Greenstein were amongst the entrants for the two tourneys. In the end, an amateur Canadian took the NAPC title and a young American poker pro captured the first-ever Canadian Open title.
Beating a field of 497 players, 27-year-old amateur Soren Turkewitsch of Ontario battled the remaining five players in an eight-hour final table of the NAPC on October 30 to take home a first-prize of over $1.3 million. The NAPC was Turkewitsch's first major poker tournament.
The final table for the WPT Canadian Open, which attracted 296 players, was held on October 30. 25-year-old Scott Clements of Washington claimed the first-ever WPT Canadian Open title and more than $250,000 in prize money.
Source:OnlineCasinoNews
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