Poker rookie ends 36-hour marathon £109k richer
AN amateur poker player is celebrating after winning £109,000 in prize money following a tense 36 hours at the card table.
Web designer Gaz Walker, 28, only began playing the game a few years ago and was taking part in his second tournament when he struck lucky.
He claimed the pot after 1,000 people turned up to play in the contest at a Nottingham casino hall.
Mr Walker, from Jarrow, South Tyneside, stumped up £500 to enter the contest and ended up duelling down to the last man until past 3am.
He said: “I decided to go all in and blow him out of the water and it worked. I was over the moon.
“The whole thing is still very surreal and only now is it starting to sink in.”
He has bought a car and a family holiday and is planning a trip to Las Vegas to play in the World Series.
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