Hand #110: Frederic Normand Wins! ($351,650); Heng Zhang Finishes as Runner-Up ($226,700)

Photo:  WPT bestbet Scramble Champion Frederic Normand (seated)

HAND #110  –  Frederic Normand raises to 400,000, and Heng Zhang calls.

Both players check to the turn on a board of , Zhang checks, Normand bets 750,000, and Zhang check-raises all in for 4,675,000.

Normand waits for the exact count, and then uses one of his Time Chips to tank for a while before he calls with for a pair of aces with a gutshot straight draw.

Zhang turns over for a diamond flush draw with an open-ended straight draw, and he needs a nine, a four, or any diamond to stay alive.

Photo:  Frederic Normand (right) celebrates the moment with his friends.

The river card is the , and Normand wins the pot — and the WPT title — with an eight-high straight.

Heng Zhang finishes as the runner-up, earning $226,700.

Frederic Normand wins the WPT bestbet Scramble, earning $351,650 and a WPT trophy designed by renowned sculptor Daniel Arsham. Normand’s prize amount includes his $10,400 seat into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas, and his name will be engraved onto the one-and-only Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup alongside all of the champions in the 21-season history of the World Poker Tour.

Congratulations to Frederic Normand!

1st:  Frederic Normand  –  $351,650*
2nd:  Heng Zhang  –  $226,700
3rd:  Toby Boas  –  $166,800
4th:  Michael Frierson  –  $123,900
5th:  Ian O’Hara  –  $92,900
6th:  Brian Senie  –  $70,400

Photo:  Runner-Up Heng Zhang

* First-place prize amount includes the winner’s $10,400 seat into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.

Photography by Drew Amato