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HEADLINE: Thanksgiving Win For Full
Tilt Poker Ace
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$600 000 win for poker ace Phil Gordon, who plans a
donation for cancer research
Six of the world’s best poker
professionals and one online qualifier from Full Tilt Poker.net
met at the poker table on Thanksgiving Day last week to compete
for a $1 million prizepool in the Full Tilt Poker.Net Championship
at Red Rock Resort and Casino.
Team Full Tilt member and best selling author and television host,
Phil Gordon devoured the competition taking first place, winning
$600 000.
Full
Tilt Poker representative Roland de Wolfe took second place,
winning $275 000. Other professional players in this star-studded,
live tournament included Team Full Tilt members Erick Lindgren,
John Juanda, and Allen Cunningham, and poker pro Toto Leonidas.
The pros earned their seats in July 2006 by winning their respective
heats at a qualifying shoot-out tournament, also held at the Red
Rock Resort and Casino.
Rounding out the field was one of six online qualifiers who all
won free trips to Las Vegas after playing online at FullTiltPoker.net.
Once in Las Vegas, these online qualifiers competed against one
another for the opportunity to play in the live, televised Championship
event, which aired on Fox Sports Network. With a guaranteed prize
pool of $1 million, even the seventh-place finisher was paid no
less than $25 000.
Gordon pledged that a percentage of his $600 000 win will be donated
to the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation’s Bad Beat
on Cancer initiative.
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