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Tuesday 8th May 2007

Carlos Mortensen Wins $3.9M World Poker Classic

The 2007 World Poker Tour Five Star Poker Classic has been won by Full Tilt Poker�s Carlos �The Matador� Mortensen, after he started two thirds down in a heads up battle against Kirk Morrison. The $3.9m prize puts Mortensen in amongst poker�s highest earners and makes him the first ever player to win both a WPT world championship and a World Series of Poker Main Event.

Within the first quarter of an hour of play Mortensen showed that all you need is a chip and a chair � in this case, roughly six million chips against Morrison�s 25.5 million. Within an hour, rivering a straight put Mortensen in the lead. Morrison raised his game, managing to double up within ten minutes, and leaving Mortensen back with an underdog�s game for the third time. Chip leads flipped from player to player another three times, until Morrison moved all in pre-flop on the back of A-4, and was called. A flop of 7-4-3 favoured Morrison with a pair, but the turn paired the jack in Mortensen�s J-K hand.

Fellow Full Tilt player Howard Lederer described Mortensen as, �One of the most dangerous players on the circuit.�

Source: OnlineCasinoNews

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