We've just heard a story to warm the cockles of your heart about
a newbie who triumphed in an online poker tournament earlier this
month. It serves as a great encouragement to the many new poker players
who have been attracted to the game by its huge media coverage in
recent times.
Using the "handle" Zxnm" the 31-year-old cool and collected
player is an Irish scaffolder who won the first Betfair online poker
tournament. With a winning hand of a pair of tens he sealed a victory
over more than 600 entrants and took home a GBP sterling 21,000 prize,
a fifth of the total GBP 100,000 prize money, with a luxury trip for
two to the Melbourne Cup in Australia next month.
“Betfair’s tournament was really great and it’s
brilliant and fantastic that I won,” he said. “The
small Euro 5 and Euro 10 tourneys are a great way to get experience
and to learn the game. If the cards fall right, anyone can win it
- everyone has a chance.”
Zxnm is a newbie who won his place in Betfair’s tournament through
a GBP 10 single table satellite. He has only been playing Texas Hold’em
for a year and had previously played in only one satellite tournament.