Twenty four hours after his beloved football team Everton suffered a 2-1 defeat at the hands of Chelsea, avid Toffee supporter Woz101 tears of despair turned to tears of joy as he celebrated a £17,000 win on Ladbrokespoker.com.
In a case of life imitating art, against all odds, the twenty six year old Everton fan, beat over 1000 players just falling short of ultimate victory, by coming second in the weekly, $150,000 guaranteed Sunday online poker tournament. Woz101 from Liverpool, Merseyside, who bought into the tournament for £25 said: "Everton may have been beaten on Saturday, but over the course of the season it's been an overall victory for the team. I view my placing second, the same way. I've only been playing for over a year and was up against much more experienced and skilled players, so to get this far and win £17,000 amazing!"
Woz101 who's been working on getting his own business off the ground - is due to launch an online gaming portal called The European Gaming Championship this Friday and plans to invest his winnings in further development. EGC allows gamers to challenge each other to football matches and other games on consoles such as Microsoft Xbox, Sony Playstation and the PC over the internet. He now has his sights set firmly on trying to qualify with Ladbrokes Poker for the WSOP, the biggest and richest poker tournament in the world held annually in Las Vegas.
Last years winner entered with Ladbrokes and at 22 won just over $7 million dollars. Even if Woz101 came second he still would stand to win around $6 million dollars.
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