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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DEALER'S CHOICE - In home games, a rule that permits the dealer to name which poker game to be played that hand. Often limited to selecting from a list provided.
FOLD - To decline to call a bet, thus dropping out of a hand.
KICKER TROUBLE - Not having as high a kicker as an opponent.
SEVENTH STREET - The seventh card dealt in 7-card stud.
WHITE BLACKBIRD - A hand so astonishingly rare as to be unworthy of the opponents' consideration, e.g., being dealt a pat royal flush in 5-card draw.
DEAD MAN'S HAND - Generically: two pair, aces and eights. Specifically: the black aces, black eights and nine of diamonds. The hand Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot to death.

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