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Coming from slowed down to cook 2006 WSOP wunderkind Jeff Madsen in their best-of-three all-out heads-up front, Benjamin LaBlond took down the 2009 Canadian Open Poker Championship in Calgary Sunday.

 LaBlond's path to the $100,000 win saw him go wiped out no less than 11-time WSOP gold wristlet winner Phil Hellmuth in the quarterfinals, sucking out huge when he rivered a set of sixes in contempt of Hellmuth's cavity nines to end a six-hour light bulb.

He also beat Canadian hear Brad Booth in the semis. Just play Everest Poker.

Other big names who made the trip to Western Canada included Gavin Smith, semi-finalist Terrence Chan, Antonio Esfandiari and last year's hustler, Huck Seed, who was dissatisfied in the at the start round of the heads-up patronage.

An dabster from Hull, Quebec, who plays regulalry online, LaBlond told affiliate media he was successful to raise part of his neat profit into a seat in the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event.

A difference of 93 players ponied up the $5,000 buy-in for a shot at the Canadian Open Poker Championship designation.

Madsen took $50,000 for his coadjutrix place finish off.

If you have $20,000 to over and above, you can break in the televised 2009 NBC National Heads-Up Championship at Caesars Palace,

Or you can try to win one.

Caesars is leasehold a $50,000 freeroll on Feb. 22, 2009 at 11 a.m.First instate wins cash plus a seat into the authority.

All you have to do to hem for the freeroll is play 50 hours in the poker room in January 2009 (tournaments don't recount).

Prize prototype:

1st: $10,000 plus seat to influence (worth $20,000)
2nd: $7,500
3rd - 4th: $6,250
5th - 8th: $3,500
9th - 16th: $2,500
17th - 32nd: $1,000

One engaging bit to and fro this freeroll is that it plays every moment until it gets to 64 players.Then totality draws, gets new rocks, and plays heads-up.The explicit four players then play the best of three matches.