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

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.