T.J. Cloutier won the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge $5,000 buy-in championship event in Tulsa, OK, last night after surviving a final table that included Bill Edler, Gavin Smith and the tournament host himself, Scotty Nguyen.

Edler and Nguyen were eliminated by Cloutier in 9th and 8th, respectively, and Smith busted in 4th place at the hands of Ray Henson, 12th place finisher at the 2007 WSOP Main Event.

Cloutier and Henson combined to make every elimination at the final table and Cloutier started the heads-up match with a 7:3 chip lead. The match lasted 167 hands, according to PokerPages.com, but Cloutier was finally able to cripple Henson when he turn two pair with Q-7 against Henson’s Q-9 on a Q-4-3-7 board. The river was an Ace and Henson was left with just a few chips, which he bet on the very next hand with K-3. Cloutier called with A-6 and after the board brought no held for Henson, Cloutier was awarded his first major tournament win since the 2005 WSOP.

Final Results

1st. TJ Cloutier $240,560
2nd. Ray Henson $138,322
3rd. Brent Hale $72,168
4th. Gavin Smith $42,098
5th. Noah Nodine $33,077
6th. Daniel Robertson $27,063
7th. Gil George $21,049
8th. Scotty Nguyen $15,035
9th. Bill Edler $12,028

For the PokerPages.com live tournament updates from the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge, see:
http://news.pokerpages.com/index.php?option=com_simpleblog&task=view&id=2732

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