Huck Seed Wins Canadian Open Heads-Up Main Event

After four years of cashing in every NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship — with his most recent cash being his second third-place finish in the 2008 event a few weeks ago — 1996 World Series of Poker champion Huck Seed was sick of getting close and not winning a heads-up event. This weekend, Seed won the 2008 Canadian Open Poker Championship heads-up main event after defeating Brad Booth in a best-of-three heads-up final match.

The event took place in Calgary Alberta at the Deerfoot Inn and Casino. The buy-in was $5,000, and the 64 players created a prize pool of $290,160 after 2.5 percent of it was set aside for charity. Seed also came in third in the inaugural Canadian Open two years ago, so, determined to win, Seed played heads up against Booth, a Canadian poker pro, for over five hours before claiming the $100,000 first-place prize.

The following are the top eight finishers and payouts:

• Huck Seed — $100,000
• Brad Booth — $50,160
• Graeme Putt — $30,000
• Gavin Smith — $30,000
• Nghi Van Tran — $20,000
• Joe Hachem — $20,000
• Van Marcus — $20,000
• Shawn Buchanan — $20,000