Carlos Mortensen first to win WSOP ME and WPT Championship

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I think this is highly unlikely to ever be duplicated.

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Ridiculously terrible logic.

Assume an average WPT Championship field of 500. Assume in any given year there are ten former WSOP champs playing, or 2% of the field. Given that WSOP champs have some capability of winning tournamaments, their collective chance at winning the tournament is at least 5%. So, at least one out of every 20 years I would expect this feat to be broken.

Also consider someone could win the WPT championship, then go on to win the WSOP championship. This is of course a little more difficult, but possible, which should make it occur more often than once per 20 years.

Finally, the fields are likely to get much smaller going forward, yet the participation rate of former champs will stay around the same. So you could easily have a 200 person WPT championship field with 10 former WSOP champs playing, making a double winner a fairly likely event.

Keep in mind this year Hellmuth made it pretty far in addition to Carlos.