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The first PKR Heads Up Grand Slam is now over and the winner of this tournament was Vladimir Geshkenbein. He is not very famous for people around but he has won the APPT Macau High-Rollers event beating Johnny Chan once. But this time he was Vladimir Geshkenbein against Juha Helppi at the final table in this heads up tournament. Vladimir Geshkenbein came to the final table beating Sudworth in the semifinals. The last hand of the night was when Juha Helppi wnt all in with his A spades-6 clubs and was up against Vladimir Geshkenbein´s hand Q-10 of diamonds. Flop was K-9-K and its was an open straight for Geshkenbein. Turn card was 3 of diamonds. No help for either player. River card was a 2 of diamonds and with the flop card 9 it was a Queen high flush and it was all over. 1st prize in PKR Heads Up Grand Slam was $120,000 and this is the final scores in the tourney:

1 Vladimir Geshkenbein $120,000
2 Juha Helppi $70,000
3 Alex Torelli $45,000
4 James Sudworth $35,000
5 Tony G $20,000
6 Ian Frazier $20,000
7 Lex Veldhuis $20,000
8 David Steicke $20,000