Associated Press
LAS VEGAS - A weekend poker tournament stretched into early Monday before poker champion Phil Hellmuth defeated rival Chris Ferguson to win the inaugural National Heads-Up Poker Championship, tournament officials said.
It was 3:23 a.m. when Hellmuth won the $500,000 first prize in the $1.5 million event at the Golden Nugget hotel-casino in downtown Las Vegas.
The made-for-TV tournament was taped for telecast by NBC in May. advertisement
Hellmuth, from San Francisco, has been one of the most recognizable faces in poker since becoming the youngest winner of the World Series of Poker in 1989, at age 24.
He got to the final table in the head-to-head Texas Hold'Em tournament by defeating Antonio Esfandiari, also of San Francisco, officials said. Ferguson topped T.J. Cloutier to advance to the final.
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