Chapel Hill student Mark Newhouse is the 2006 Borgata Poker Open champion, taking the World Poker Tour title on Tuesday following an unstoppable lead at the outset. It takes a lot of great poker playing to win a WPT event, and, often, a lot of luck. It seemed that Newhouse had all the luck at the tables as he built a huge chip lead, starting Tuesday's final table event with $7,025,000 in chips, and there were only $13,500,000 chips in play. This online player brought his biggest, and only, live poker accomplishment, a fifth place finish at the WSOP in the $3,000 Limit Texas Holdem event, with him to this WPT event, but didn't let his lack of experience hold him back. A $1.5 million prize goes to Newhouse as the winner.
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