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Newport Beach's Joe Pelton beats starting field of 460 over 4 days of play
Newport Beach, California player Joe Pelton is the new champ in the 2006 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker, beating a starting field of 460 players in a 4 day tournament to take to the $1 577 170 first prize this week.
Third in chip counts at $1.1 million as the thournament entered the final table stage, Pelton fought it out in an exciting tussle with the likes of Hoyt Corkins, Randy Holland, Scotty Nguyen, Frankie O'Dell, and Kevin O'Donnell.
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After 69 hands and a tense heads-up with second placed Frankie O'Dell it was Pelton who truimphed, earning a fat cheque, the championship ring and a buy-in to the World Poker Tour championships worth $25 000.
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