Canadian Poker Open Championship Update

For those of you wanting to know what went down at the 2010 Canadian Poker Open Championship Main Event, here’s the skinny:

The CPOC boasts multiple tournaments across two casinos in Calgary. The Main Event (Event #9) ran August 27-29 and used both casinos, with some players at one site and some at the other, and had a $2,200 buy-in. Twenty-two-year-old Zennawi Petros, a.k.a. Zenni took the win. The Winnipeg native entered the final table fifth in chips, and played aggressively to successfully build his chip stack.

“I managed to double up with AJ vs. KQ and really never looked back. I kept chipping up and before long I was the chip leader,” Petros told the Winnipeg Free Press.

However, Petros made a deal with the final four players to split the remainder of the prize pool – with each player earning $50K from the $213K remaining and with the winner earning $13K more, the COPC ring, the title and of course, bragging rights.