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Sweden man wins Tournament Poker's largest first prize LAS
VEGAS -- On the final episode of its second season, the WORLD POKER
TOUR (WPT) awarded $2,728,356 to Martin Deknijff of Stockholm, Sweden,
the winner of its WPT Championship tournament at Bellagio
in Las Vegas. The total was the largest prize ever paid to a single individual
place finisher in a televised poker tournament or North American sporting
event. Deknijff outlasted 342 poker players in a tournament that will
air on The Travel Channel on June 30. "This
is a dream come true. To win the World Poker Tour Championship and the
biggest tournament ever in poker...it is just overwhelming," said
the 32-year-old Deknijff, who stated his first post-tournament act would
be to wake up his seven-year-old son Robin and tell him the news. Deknijff
has made his living combining sports betting, poker and professional bridge
since he graduated high school in Sweden. He has recently moved to Las
Vegas. The top
50 players in the WPT Championship each earned a share in the $8,342,000
prize pool, the most ever for a poker tournament. The buy-in was $25,300,
the largest poker tournament entry fee to date. The $2.7 million to the victor was more than double the $1,011,886 prize money paid to the winner for the inaugural World Poker Tour Championship, which aired last year on The Travel Channel. |
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