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Sunday, May 13, 2007
Runarsson meets Waterloo, Ma takes Grand Prix
No Mike Sexton. And no World Poker Tour (WPT) cameras. But Will "cutiepi314" Ma - an 18-year-old online poker star from Waterloo, Ontario - will likely get over it, with €422,560 in his pocket from conquering the field at the Grand Prix de Paris.
David Benyamine. Roland De Wolfe. Surinder Sunar. cutiepi314.
All now winners of the prestigious Grand Prix de Paris title, the latest addition being Ma - yet another former Magic:The Gathering player moving on to bigger and better paying things in the world of poker - who took down the championship Saturday at the famed Aviation Club de France.
And, despite the WPT pullout from broadcasting the event because of gaming regulations in France and a somewhat pro-limited field, it wasn't a gimme either.
Over 130 players still squared up the €10,000 buy-in - among them the dangerous Freddy Deeb, Ram Vaswani and Jeff Lisandro - but it was Ma and Iceland's Runar Runarsson running the gauntlet to the heads-up battle, with Ma eventually overcoming Runarsson's 2-1 chip lead and taking him out with a pair of jacks.
Deeb dropped out on the bubble of the final table in 10th. Lisandro and Vaswani both made it to the final nine, with Lisandro busting out in sixth and Vaswani taking a bad beat from Ma to finish in fourth.
For his troubles, Ma takes €422,560, a prestigious title in his first-ever live tournament, and the knowledge he would have been the youngest WPT champion ever back home with him to Canada.
The rest of your final table results are as follows:
| Place | Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Will Ma | €422,560 |
| 2nd | Runar Runarsson | €224,480 |
| 3rd | David Redlin | €158,460 |
| 4th | Ram Vaswani | €105,640 |
| 5th | Jeff Wallace | €79,230 |
| 6th | Jeff Lisandro | €66,020 |
| 7th | Tor Gammelgard | €52,820 |
| 8th | Yuri Kerzhapkin | €39,615 |
| 8th | Paul Gourlay | €26,410 |
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