Kitchener man wins poker tourney

Posted Oct 8, 2013 10:48:56 AM.

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A Kitchener man played his cards right and won Canada’s largest ever poker tournament.

32-year-old Henri Balcazar outplayed over 16-hundred other competitors at the Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival Main Event.

That won him close to $200,000.

What are his plans for his winnings? He says, for one thing, he plans to buy his mother a car.

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