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
achievement 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.