With an interestesting back-to-back WPT tournament schedule the Canadian Open and the North American Poker Championship have just concluded at the Fallsview Casino Resort in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
The schedule called for playing the Canadian Open down to the six player final table and then putting it on hold until the NAPC had also played out and then in the last two days holding successive final tables. The results had a distinctive Canadian flavor.
Playing through a field of 497 players, 27-year-old amateur poker player Soren Turkewitsch of Oshawa, Ontario, took home a first-prize of over $1.3 million. Placing second in the NAPC was professional poker player Jason "Bigbird" Sagle of Sudbury, Ontario, who won over $600,000. John Lam of Toronto placed third; Jim Worth of Oakville, Ontario, placed fourth; John Juanda of Alhambra, California, placed fifth; and Marc Karam of Ottawa, Ontario, placed sixth.
Winning the WPT Canadian (296 entrants) was 25-year-old Scott Clements of Mt. Vernon, Washington, who claimed the first-ever WPT Canadian Open title and more than $250,000 in prize money. Finishing behind Clements in the Canadian Open was poker pro Tony O'Hagan of Paris, Ontario, who placed second; Vince Sassa of Toronto placed third; Terris Preston of Toronto placed fourth; Steve Buttery of Windsor, Ontario, placed fifth; and Dang Trinh of Toronto placed sixth.
