$1.7 Million Winner In Vegas Tournament
Published: Friday, May 06, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
BUSINESSMAN TAKES $1.7 MILLION DOLLARS IN VEGAS TOURNAMENT
Largest poker prize ever won by a Briton
The UK newspaper The Independent carried one of those good luck, and great poker skill stories this week when it reported the WPT successes of a British businessman who took two weeks off in Vegas to play poker.
Paul Maxfield has been running his own manufacturing company in Stoke-on-Trent for 25 years when he decided to head for Vegas for a well earned break playing poker, and ended up $ 1.7 million richer after placing second in the World Poker Tour championships. It is claimed to be the largest win ever pocketed by a British citizen.
Maxfield (48) has always had an eye for the gaming tables and his acjievement adds to the reputation in the US of British poker players, whose audiences in the UK have been limited to competitions screened by Channel 4 and Sky Sports.
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