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Weblog: Straight talking from Roy The Boy
A week in poker can be a life-changing experience
THEY say a week is a long time in politics.
Well, in poker, five days can change your life forever.
Just ask Jake Cody, an unknown online qualifier from Rochdale, who collected n €847,000 cheque after winning the EPT Deauville leg last week.
Cody is the seventh British player to lift an EPT winner's trophy (there have been 51 individual EPT winners) and the former psychology student, aged just 21, also received free entry into the EPT Grand Finals in Monte Carlo.
On the domestic front Priyan de Mel landed his second Grosvenor Poker Tour event in the space of ten weeks, netting
himself £44,600 when overcoming 145 rivals in Bolton.
Back on the Continent, the 192-runner €2,000 entry tournament in Seefeld, Austria, went to Marco Meloni, who
took €96,680 back to his native Germany. Your dashing Racing Post poker correspondent managed to make a final table in the Omaha side event at the festival and the prize-money all but
covered one of the Irish visiting party's medical costs incurred by an accident out on the piste!
>>Premier League hits Vegas
BARRY HEARN has taken his televised Premier League to Vegas. Previous winners, Ireland's Andy Black and Finland's Juha Helppi, have been snubbed and do not make this year's line-up.
The field for this, the fourth edition, which is played between February 12-18 is: Doyle Brunson, David Benyamine, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Tony G, Phil Hellmuth, JC Tran, plus Brits Roland de Wolfe and, with questionable credentials, Luke Schwartz.
While those participants stump up their $100,000 entry fee and chase a $1.5 million prize-pool, the appearance of TJ Cloutier's 2005 World Series of Poker Bracelet on eBay last week represented a sad day.
Cloutier, an active 70-year-old player, won $657,100 when collecting that bracelet, the sixth in his collection.
Allied to those half-dozen wins he has finished runner-up in the World Series Main Event on two occasions (1985 and 2000) and made two World Poker Tour final tables. Combined, those results and more equate to over $9.5 million in winnings.
An online poker site purchased Cloutier's bracelet for $4,006. The site intends to return it to him after attaining a fair degree of publicity for their good deed.
>>Danielsson quits
JONAS DANIELSSON, an online poker sensation with millions in earnings, is cashing in his chips, investing in property and quitting the game.
The Swede finished runner-up in the 2008 World Heads-Up Championship.
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