Mike Sexton has won the 2016 partypoker.net WPT Montreal! The certified Hall of Famer, all-around poker legend and the voice and face of the WPT for its entire 15 year history has added to his legend and made history at Playground Poker Club by winning this $3,850 NL Hold'em event, now in its 5th year. For his victory, Mike wins $405,880.00 in cash, a US$ 15,000 entry in the WPT Tournament of Champions, the Playground Poker Champion's Belt, his name (further) immortalized on the WPT Champions [More...]
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Lefrançois crowned Champion of the High Roller
Pascal Lefrançois and Mark Radoja played heads-up for about a half-hour. For those two to end up playing heads-up was a natural outcome, as they played a lot of hands together since the formation of the final table. They were constantly testing each other in a variety of different scenarios, as if to prepare for the match to come. They started the heads-up match with even stacks, and were playing for $8,000.00, having split the rest of the pool evenly. Playing 10K/20K/a3K, there were 61 big [More...]
Second Chance Champion: Christopher Fisher
When the deal was made 3-way, Christopher Fisher and Ted Doukas were both relatively short compared with Jordan Saccucci - but when Jordan went out in 3rd, Chris picked up most of those chips. When heads up play began, Chris enjoyed a 3-1 chip advantage.
Play continued for a little time before what looked to be a definitive all in showdown that pitted Chris' 
against Ted's dominated 
. The 
on the river brought Ted from behind, however, and play continued.
A few hands later [More...]
