Ted Forrest This Year’s National Heads-Up Poker Champ

Last year Chris “Jesus” Ferguson sat across the table from the “Poker Brat”, Phil Hellmuth, for the right to be called the National Heads-Up Poker Champion, but was unable to bring home the victory when Hellmuth won the event. This year Ferguson had a second chance as he sat in the familiar spot, this time facing professional poker player Ted Forrest; once more he finished second banana, as Forrest won the 2006 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.

Forrest is no newcomer to tough competition, himself a winner of five World Series of Poker bracelets and a regular at the casino tables in Las Vegas. To get to the final match up with Ferguson, Forrest had to defeat five professional poker players one by one….

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COLD CALL - Calling both a bet and raise at the same time, as opposed to calling a bet then later calling a raise made after the call.
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