WPE College Poker Champ Announced
Published: Friday, March 18, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
WPE COLLEGE POKER CHAMP ANNOUNCED
Best college player in the country gets
a scholarship, a laptop and a ticket to the London Open
The "best
college player in the USA" was $10 000 richer this week following the finals
of World Poker Exchange's Intercollegiate Poker Championship in Cancun, Mexico.
The champ was Nate Belt from the University of Kentucky. Belt competed against
five other regional finalists in a live tournament hosted by "MTV Real World:
Las Vegas" star Trishelle Cannatella. Finishing in second and third places
were Ryan Demeter of Vanderbilt University and Devin Hanneman of the University
of Utah, respectively.
Belt will receive the grand prize, which includes
a $10,000 cash scholarship, a laptop computer and an all expense paid five-day
trip to the United Kingdom to compete in the World Poker Exchange London Open
on August 3-6, 2005. At the signature lifestyle tournament, Nate will receive
free entry into this high stakes televised competition worth $10,000, and have
the opportunity to share in a minimum prize pot of $2 million while playing against
some of the world's top poker players.
Belt is originally from Bowling
Green, KY. He is currently a freshman majoring in Biology with a pre-medicine
concentration. A member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, Belt and his friends play
poker once or twice a week; a ritual that certainly paid off in Cancun.
"I've
been playing poker for fun for a little over three years now and never thought
it would amount to my playing with the pros at the London Open," Belt said
in statement today. "The last call I made in the championship game wasn't
the smartest, but I went on instinct and now I'm glad I did. I've never been to
London, so this is the opportunity of a lifetime."
The World Poker
Exchange Intercollegiate Poker Championship was an online and offline poker championship
that required no entrance fee. Open to students from 120 top universities throughout
the United States, the tournament attracted more than 1,000 students from throughout
the U.S. vying for scholarship cash prizes.
