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Last week online poker room Full Tilt Poker held a high roller event for those who enjoy the thrill of playing in high stakes tournaments. The $25,000 Heads Up Championship featured sixty three players competing which created a prize pool of $1, 575,000 which was divided in a NCAA style bracket system which is used in most heads up play tournaments.
The top eight players would be the only ones to earn a pay day so everyone was trying hard to stay on to the quarter finals of the tournament. The tournament lasted two days with the finals taking place early Sunday evening.
Players began the tournament playing heads up against another competitor and then the first to lose all their chips was knocked out of the competition. The winner would move on to the next round of heads up play.
Several poker pros from Full Tilt competed in the tournament though they were unable to finish in the money. Phil Ivey, Andy Block, Tom Dwan, Erick Lindgren, John Juanda, Ziigmund, Tony G and Gavin Smith were among those who could not make it to the final rounds of play.
David Benefield and Ashton Griffin, both in their early twenties, made it to the final round of heads up play. both had eliminated many players to make it to the last match and only had to defeat the other to win the large first place prize. Ashton Griffin calls himself a heads up No Limit Hold’em specialist and apparently he is right because he was able to knock out Benefield to take the title win earning $551,250.
Benefield earned $315,000 for second place while WinnerFish and yogiblair earned $165,375 and the other four players, Past, Kadabra, IvanLendL and Vaga_Lion earned $94,500 for their finish.
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