Carlos Mortenson Win the WPT Championship

Filed in archive Tournament News on April 30, 2007

Carlos "The Matador" Mortensen successfully dodged all the hungry poker bulls to take down $3.9 million at the World Poker Tour's WPT Championship at the Belliago Hotel and Casino.

The $25,000 buy-in created the largest first prize outside of the World Series of Poker. and created a few more millionaires from this little two card game many of us enjoy. While playing down the final six players at the TV final table the rules on the blinds change a bit to create a faster playing game and leave a little bit of the player's fate to luck more then the skill of big stack poker. Aggression wins out here more often then not, and Carlos Mortensen used his aggressive style of play that earn him victory at the 2000 WSOP main event.

Here's a listing of some of the accolates the new WPT champion has scooped up fromDr. Pauly reporting for Pokernews:

Mortensen became the first and only player to have won a WPT World Championship and a WSOP Main Event.

Mortensen also became the first player to collect over $5 million in career tournament earnings at Bellagio.

Mortensen also won the richest prize in the largest prize pool in the five year history of the WPT.

Mortensen completed one of the most amazing final table comebacks in all of televised tournament poker.

Mortensen also won the fourth largest first place prize in the history of poker. Only Jamie Gold, Joe Hachem, and Greg Raymer have won more.

In addition to the accolades, Mortensen played some of the best poker of his life. Held over seven days, the WPT Championships featured 639 entrants that included the biggest and brightest names in poker. When it was finally over, Mortensen outlasted 638 players, all of whom desperately wanted to win the juicy first place prize of $3,970,415.