DUBLIN, September 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Full Tilt Poker Pro Erik Cajelais wins the World Series of Poker EuropeEvent 2, claiming his first WSOP bracelet and more than US$169K in prizemoney.

This is a breakthrough victory for Cajelais, a 27-year-old professionalpoker player from Montreal who has come close to a major tournament win onseveral occasions. His best previous finish was second place in the US$5KPot-Limit Omaha event at the 2007 WSOP.

WSOPE Event 2, a half Pot-Limit Hold 'em and half Pot-Limit Omahatournament with a buy-in of GBP2,500, attracted 158 of the world's bestplayers to the Empire Casino in London. Day one of the tournament was playedat a rapid pace, especially during the action-packed Pot-Limit Omaha rounds.Cajelais dominated the early action, ending the day as the overall chipleader.

Day two continued at the same break-neck speed, culminating with an earlystart to the final table. Cajelais entered the final table seventh in chipsafter making his way through the tough day two field. The stacked final tablefeatured four former WSOP bracelet winners, including Team Full Tilt's Howard"The Professor" Lederer, along with Men Nguyen and Hoyt Corkins. Lederer wasthe first player to bust out from the final table, heading to the rail afterhis pocket 3s did not hold up against his opponent's A-K.

The tournament was suspended for the night when five-handed play wasreached, at which time Cajelais was the short stack and appeared headed for afifth-place finish. This all changed when play resumed the next afternoon, asCajelais won a series of big pots to reclaim the chip lead for the first timesince the end of day one.

Cajelais dominated the final hour of play, completely taking over thetable after busting Nguyen in fourth place. When heads-up play began,Cajelais held an almost 10-to-1 chip lead over Mats Gavatin, a professionalpoker player from Sweden.

Shortly into their heads-up battle, Cajelais made a full house in aPot-Limit Omaha hand to eliminated Gavatin and claim his first WSOP bracelet.With this win, Cajelais has earned nearly US$1.7 million playing livetournaments throughout the world.

In celebration of his tremendous victory, Cajelais sprinted down the hallto claim his seat in WSOPE Event 3, the GBP5,000 Pot-Limit Omahachampionship, which had started earlier in the afternoon.

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