There's a lot of luck in poker, and there's a lot more luck in heads-up poker, because if you fold every time you don't have top pair or better, you're gonna get run over and you'll have no shot. 'When I catch the queen on the river to make a better two pair, that's just luck. Raymer overcame a 2:1 disadvantage to start-of-the-day chip leader Evan Bethyo in a wild heads-up match, which included Raymer finding a double on the very first hand with his rivered queens-up besting Bethyo's jacks-up to even the stacks.

I'll definitely say luck was on my side in the heads-up play.' 'Evan did not let me run him over at all. 'Every one's more special than the last.'

'It feels great,' Raymer, the 2012 HPT Player of the Year, told HPT Tournament Director Jeremy Smith about conquering the 520-entry field, which brings him up to third on the HPT's all-time career earnings list, behind only Craig Casino and Reginald 'Shawn' Roberts. Greg Raymer put on a classic clinic at the Heartland Poker Tour (HPT) Ameristar East Chicago $1,650 Main Event final table, taking down his record fifth HPT Main Event title, along with $171,411 in prize money, and a $3,500 Championship Package for the HPT Season XVI Championship at the end of the season.

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