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Ted Forrest This Year's National Heads-Up Poker Champ

By launchpoker, Mar 8, 2006

Last year Chris "Jesus" Ferguson sat across the table from the "Poker Brat", Phil Hellmuth, for the right to be called the National Heads-Up Poker Champion, but was unable to bring home the victory when Hellmuth won the event. This year Ferguson had a second chance as he sat in the familiar spot, this time facing professional poker player Ted Forrest; once more he finished second banana, as Forrest won the 2006 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.



Forrest is no newcomer to tough competition, himself a winner of five World Series of Poker bracelets and a regular at the casino tables in Las Vegas. To get to the final match up with Ferguson, Forrest had to defeat five professional poker players one by one.