>>>FYI
>>>The new British Open Champion is the cousin of Joey Harrington of the Atlanta Falcons.
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>>FYI, Sam, he's also the cousin of Dan Harrington, a well-known world class poker player and 1995 World Series of Poker main event champion. Dan tells a *great* story about calling his mother when he won the world championship -- all his mother could talk about was that Padraig had won some small tournament that weekend and couldn't understand why Dan was excited about being a "world champion" at something so insignificant as a card game.
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>>The fact that he also won a million dollars in the process somehow eluded her as well...
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>*g*
>I didn't know that. I don't what TV poker tournaments.
>And WOW! do those poker pot get that big?
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>At least she couldn't threaten to pull him out of school like my mom did when I told her about my all night poker game while in college. :)

I knew about Joey, but didn't know about Dan.

The million dollars he won is now small potatoes. There are several events there with 1st prize over a million. The main event in 2007 had 6358 entries ($10,000 entry fee) and paid over 8 million to first place.