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After a really long heads-up marathon match Vanessa Rousso managed to win over the second place finisher Randy Dorfman in the EPT High Roller Championship. Vanessa, who is a Team PokerStars member and a GoDaddy Girl is sure take down some nice tournaments this year.

In the final hand Vanessa made a straight on the turn holding 67 and when the river gave Dorfan two pair the all-in situation was hard to avoid and Vanessa Rousso took down the tournament and the €570 000 first price.

When the tournament was down to three players there was a deal made on the final table which left the second and third place finisher with €420 000 and the winner would get an additional €150K.

Here are the final results from the 2009 EPT High Roller Championship:

1. Vanessa Rousso - €570.000
2. Randy Dorfman - €420.000
3. Tony G - €420.000
4. Florian Langmann - €188.000
5. David Eldar – 138.000
6. William Thorson - €99.000
7. Andrew Feldman - €79.000
8. David Steicke - €60.000

Team FullTilt Poker member Huck Seed took down the NBC NHPC 2009 title which made gave him a nice $500 000 payday.

National Heads-Up Poker Championship is a poker tournament arranged by the TV channel NBC that is held every year. In order to participate in this tournament you have to get invited which makes sure that only the best of the best will participate in this tournament. The tournament format is No Limit Holdem and obviously it is heads-up matches that are played between the poker players.

Just like every other year 64 players participated in this tournament so in order to win this tournament you would have to win 6 heads-up matches in a row. On his way to the victory Huck Seed beat the following players: Jonathan Little, Gus Hansen, Glen Chorny, David Oppenheim, Sam Farha and in the final he beat Team PokerStars member Vanessa Rousso.

In the final hand Seed flops a pair of kings while Rousso catches a pair of tens on the turn and both players end up all in. Seed’s pair of kings stand up against Rousso’s pair of tens as the river card is a blank and Huck Seed is the proud winner of NBC’s NHPC 2009.