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TUNICA, MS -
The Horseshoe
Casino & Hotel and Gold
Strike Casino Resort in Tunica, Mississippi will be hosting
the Second Annual Jack Binion World Poker Open March 26 through
April 13, 2001. All tournaments will be open to the public to persons
ages 21 or older, and buy-ins vary from $300 to $5000 for each event.
In last year's
Championship master poker players from around the world competed
for a purse valued at more than $3.3 million. Doyle Brunson, Johnny
Chan, Phil Hellmuth Jr., Russ Hamilton and Scotty Nguyen were among
the 3,000+ entrants to the tournament.
Ron Williams,
55, an antique car restorer who has played tournament poker for
just three years, captured the No Limit Hold'Em Championship event
at the First Annual Jack Binion World Poker Open for $238,620, at
the climax of the biggest poker tournament ever held in the American
South.
"It's exciting,"
Williams said. "Anyone with heart and perseverance can win a tournament
with the idea of never giving up. He recalled the famous poker dictum
attributed to former World Cup Champion Jack "Treetop" Strauss,
"If you have a chip and a chair you can win."
World-renown
poker consultant Jim Albrecht will be returning as tournament director
for the event. Albrecht has managed poker rooms in Las Vegas and
served as the tournament director for the World Series of Poker,
the Hall of Fame Poker Classic and the United States Poker Championship
at the Taj Mahal
in Atlantic City.
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