Online Poker room Full Tilt has claimed victory at the 2007 WPT 5 star world poker classic
Tuesday 8th May 2007
The 2007 World Poker Tour Five Star Poker Classic has been won by Full Tilt Poker’s Carlos “The Matador” Mortensen, after he started two thirds down in a heads up battle against Kirk Morrison. The $3.9m prize puts Mortensen in amongst poker’s highest earners and makes him the first ever player to win both a WPT world championship and a World Series of Poker Main Event.
Within the first quarter of an hour of play Mortensen showed that all you need is a chip and a chair – in this case, roughly six million chips against Morrison’s 25.5 million. Within an hour, rivering a straight put Mortensen in the lead. Morrison raised his game, managing to double up within ten minutes, and leaving Mortensen back with an underdog’s game for the third time. Chip leads flipped from player to player another three times, until Morrison moved all in pre-flop on the back of A-4, and was called. A flop of 7-4-3 favoured Morrison with a pair, but the turn paired the jack in Mortensen’s J-K hand.
Fellow Full Tilt player Howard Lederer described Mortensen as, “One of the most dangerous players on the circuit.”
The 2007 World Poker Tour Five Star Poker Classic has been won by Full Tilt Poker’s Carlos “The Matador” Mortensen, after he started two thirds down in a heads up battle against Kirk Morrison. The $3.9m prize puts Mortensen in amongst poker’s highest earners and makes him the first ever player to win both a WPT world championship and a World Series of Poker Main Event.