Snooker Champ Wins Online Poker Tourney
Published: Friday, December 17, 2004 Online-Casinos.com
SNOOKER CHAMP WINS POKER TOURNEY
$500 000 C.O.N. tournament prize
Snooker champion Matthew Stevens has successfully conquered the poker game with a half a million dollars win in the final of 888.com’s Pacific Poker open. The 27 year old has used some of his winnings to jet off to New York for a pre-Christmas holiday.
The sports star beat tennis legend Yevgeny Kafelnikov and darts champion Phil Taylor in the final despite only starting to play poker 18 months ago. To get to the final Stevens had to beat poker professionals and online qualifiers that made up a field of 108 hopefuls.
World darts champion Taylor finished second and Kafelnikov, who has announced his retirement from tennis to concentrate on professional poker, came third.
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