The Finals were held on July 24that the Rendezvous Club in Somerset, WI.  We started with just under 80 players, short of our 140 qualifiers, but with LumberJack Days in Stillwater, the Red Bull Flugtag in Mpls along with the Aquatennial, we knew there were alot of things going on.

Our final table was truly an all-star table.  Dave Taddiken made his back to back run a great possibility as he started with an above-average stack.  Our other final tablists, were James Anderson in seat 1, Scott Clark in seat 2 followed by Hank Vejtruba in 3, David Taddiken in Seat 4 and Lisa Christiansen in seat 5.  Angela Thompson was in seat 6 along with Dex Salsbury in 7, Kevin Grams in 8, Nancy Petchl in 9, and Kitch wrapped the table in the 10th seat.

It didn't take long for our first player to be knocked off the final table.  Hank fell in 10th to Kevin.  There was quite a bit of 9 handed play but then Angela was knocked out in 9th by Scott.  Scott started his domination when he took out James in 8th.  Kitch jumped in and took out Nancy in 7th, Lisa in 6th, and Kevin in 5th.  Scott took over again and took out Dexter in 4th spot.  Then the three handed  play really got strategic.  David's Johnny Chan-ish run stopped short when he ran into Scott and fell in 3rd place.  Kitch could not keep up with Scott and it was visible that 7 1/2 hours of poker had taken its toll. 

Congratulations Scott for the win!  Scott receives an all-inclusive package to Black Bear along with a shot at winning close to $2K at the Sunday tourney on August 22nd.