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Thursday, May 26, 2005
Tuan Le is WPT's Season 3 Ultimate Champion
Tuan Le is World Poker Tour's Season 3 Battle of Champions winner, and so he will have a $25,000 seat in next year's WPT championship at Bellagio.
The Battle of Champions was a 'specialty' event eleven winners are chosen from the WPT season three, and had them play to see who was the 'best of the best'. The 11 chosen were:
Tuan Le
Eli Elizera
Alex Brenes
Arnold Spee
Carlos Mortensen
Michael 'Grinder' Mizrachi
Surinder Sunar
Danny Nguyen
Michael Gracz
Daniel Negreanu
John Stoltzmann
However, the final table had these players:
Seat 1 - Tuan Le - 1,499,000 in chips
Seat 2 - Eli Elizera - 915,000
Seat 3 - Alex Brenes - 576,000
Seat 4 - Michael Gracz - 1,137,000
Seat 5 - John Stoltzmann - 700,000
Seat 6 - Daniel Negreanu - 673,000
Tuan Le prevailed in the end from his heads-up battle with Eli Elizera. On the final hand, Eli took his pocket Jacks into battle for all his money, Tuan called with Kc Qc. A King came on the flop, and it was all over.
Tuan Le was also the overall Season 3 champion of the WPT.
WPT, WPT Season 3, WPT 2005
posted by selzki @ 2:02 AM
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