Soren Turkewitsch Wins 2006 North American Poker Championship

Sometimes in poker, you get lucky. Sometimes, you even get lucky twice. But for Soren Turkewitsch, lightning seemed to strike again and again. No mater how big of an underdog he was. Every time he was behind after moving all in before the flop, he made the miracle comeback. In the end, the Canadian thrilled his large throng of family and friends as he beat Jason Sagle to win the North American Poker Championship.

This was the WPT’s first trip to Niagara Falls and hopefully it will become a regular stop on the tour. It was mostly amateurs making the final table with Brad " Yukon" Booth, Allen Cunningham, Farzad Bonyati, Kyle Bowker, Mark Newhouse, Nam Le, and John D'Agostino, as well as the few broads who were remaining, all falling just shot of the final six.  The only recongnizable name was John Juanda who started the final day ultra short-stacked but managed to skweak his way into 5th place.

Final table payouts: 1) Soren Turkewitsch - $1,352,224, 2) Jason Sagle - $676,107, 3) John Lam - $352,541, 4) James Worth - $289,760, 5) John Juanda - $217,320, 6) Marc Karam - $169,027.