Thursday, May 17, 2007

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Wheat farmer dusts field at Bayou Challenge

By Christopher Hunt

Mitch Merritt, a 57-year-old farmer from Ponder, Texas, is your latest World Series of Poker Circuit champion, taking yesterday's $500+$50 No-Limit Hold'em tournament at Harrah's New Orleans.

Over 350 runners squared up the buy-in for this one, the sixth event at this year's Bayou Poker Challenge, with Merritt catching a huge rush of cards at the end to take his first major tournament victory.

He collected $53,675 and a shiny WSOP Circuit gold ring for the win.

Here are the rest of your final table results:

Place	Name	Hometown	Prize
1st	Mitch Merritt	Ponder, Texas	$53,675
2nd	Matt Brady	Philadelphia, Pa.	$27,703
3rd	Bill Hobbs	New Iberia, La.	$13,852
4th	Jose S. Corban	Miami, Fla.	$12,120
5th	B.J. McBrayer	Tuscaloosa, Ala.	$10,389
6th	Rowdy MacPherson	Montevallo, Ala.	$8,657
7th	Todd Tregre	Baton Rouge, La.	$6,926
8th	Ivan Martin	Miami, Fla.	$5,194
9th	Donna Murray	Gautier, Miss.	$3,463

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