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December 14th 2006
Erik Cajelais triumphs in final WPC preliminary
Going into the last day the final preliminary tournament before the $15,000 buy-in Doyle Brunson North American Classic looked for all the world like it would be decided by a battle between the big name pros.
As the remaining 19 players took their seats on Tuesday arguably the best five players in the room had the majority of the chips. Things were looking particularly good for Joe Tehan, the Mandalay Bay WPT winner who started the day with a huge chip lead over the rest of the field.
But the lesser known players in the field were in no mood to lie down, and Joe Tehan took a battering in the early part of the day, doubling up both Justin Bonomo and Zachary Cherry and seeing his million-dollar stack shrink to less than $300,000.
Still, Tehan is nothing if not gutsy, and the WPT champ battled his way back into contention, doubling through Erik Seidel and gaining revenge on both Cherry and Bonomo by sending them both to the rail in sixth and fifth respectively.
Earlier the multiple WSOP bracelet winning Erik Seidel, who hadn’t recovered from his loss to Joe Tehan, had exited in seventh place. Tehan was on a roll now, and after crushing Cherry and Bonomo his next victim was Player of the Year contender Shannon Shorr, who he dispatched in fourth.
Three way play began with Steve Sung holding a decent chip lead over both Tehan and Erik Cajelais, but it didn’t last long, with Cajelais in particular helping to relieve Sung of his chips.
With Sung out of the way Cajelais set about Joe Tehan, but despite enjoying a stupendous $2 million to $300,000 chip lead Cajelais simply couldn’t get to grips with the tricky Tehan. In over two hours of a quite simply incredible heads-up battle Joe Tehan battled back and somehow managed to level the chip counts. Unfortunately he couldn’t quite manage the final blow, bowing out when he moved all-in with tens and Cajelais called with jacks.
A relieved Cajelais had narrowly avoided throwing away one of the largest chip leads you’re likely to see in a heads-up battle, and his reward was the $405,230 first prize and a seat in the WPT Championship. Tehan collected over $250,000 for second place.
Submitted: 14/12/2006 16:00:45
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