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Matt Juttelstad Wins WPT Seminole
Matt Juttelstad Wins WPT Seminole
Matt Juttelstad may still have to sweat the result of his grad school admissions interview, but he certainly won't have to sweat over worrying to pay for grad school.
Matt Juttelstad won the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open. He outlasted Gigi Gagne, who attempted to become the first female open WPT event winner.
Juttelstad had hardly been playing poker for most of 2011 because he was concentrating on his studies and only played this event because he was coming to Miami to go for an interview for a grad school program. Amazingly, he left with a World Poker Tour title and $268,444!
He played on Day 1A, and busted out. He then tried his luck again and re-entered on Day 1B after his interview ended earlier than expected. Good choice in my opinion!
Matt is a deserving champion - for the past four days he played some impressive poker, staying near the top of the chip counts from Day 1 all the way to Day 4 en route to a WPT title, a seat in the WPT World Championship, and a quarter of a million dollars.
Juttelstad deserves some time to relax...until he has to start worrying about how that grad school interview went.
Here are the final table results from the Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event:
1st: Matt Juttelstad – $268,444
2nd: Gigi Gagne – $158,194
3rd: Uri Kadosh – $105,463
4th: Sharon Levin – $73,344
5th: Todd Jacobson – $54,649
6th: Keith Ferrera – $42,185
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