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December 14th 2006
Erik Cajelais triumphs in final WPC preliminary
Heading into the last day, the final preliminary tournament before the $15,000 buy-in WPT Doyle Brunson North American Classic looked set for a showdown between the big name pros.
As the final 19 players took their seats on Tuesday afternoon arguably the best five players in the field had the majority of the chips. Things were looking especially good for Joe Tehan, the 2006 Mandalay Bay WPT winner who started the day with a huge chip lead over the rest of the field.
But the lesser known players were in no mood to bow down, and Joe Tehan took a mauling 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 in the process.
Still, Tehan is nothing if not courageous, and the WPT champion battled his way back into contention, first doubling through Erik Seidel and then gaining revenge on both Cherry and Bonomo by eliminating them both from the tournament, in sixth and fifth respectively.
Just before that the multiple WSOP winning Erik Seidel had exited in seventh place. Tehan was on a roll now, and after dealing with Cherry and Bonomo his next victim was 2006 Player of the Year contender Shannon Shorr, who he dispatched in fourth.
Three way play began with Steve Sung holding the chip lead, but it didn’t last long, with Erik Cajelais proving particularly adept at relieving Sung of his chips.
With Sung out of the way Cajelais set about Joe Tehan, but despite enjoying an astonishing $2 million to $300,000 chip lead Cajelais simply couldn’t cope with the tricky Tehan. In over two hours of a masterful display of heads-up poker Joe Tehan battled back and even managed to level the chip counts. Unfortunately he couldn’t quite manage the final blow, and was finally knocked out when he moved all-in with pocket tens and was called by Cajelais holding pocket jacks.
For Cajelais the win brought both euphoria, and huge relief, as he had narrowly avoided throwing away one of the largest chip leads you’re likely to see in a heads-up battle. 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 16:13:18
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