As the stacks of hundred dollar bills were poured onto the table with two players remaining in the WPT World Championship, Eliot Hudon took one glance at the money and had to look away.

The professional poker player from Montreal wanted to avoid being distracted by the millions in cash sitting inches to his right.

“I didn’t want to think about it,” Hudon said. “Every time I had a thought that wasn’t positive, I would push it away and just keep being in the zone.”

After bossing the final table for the majority of play Tuesday at Wynn Las Vegas, Hudon kept his nerve and defeated highly-regarded British pro Benny Glaser in a brief heads-up match to secure the biggest cash of his short poker career.