PATEL COLLECTS TOP FOXWOODS POKER PRIZE

6 April 2007

Two yearsof experience for million dollar winner

After five full days of play and a starting field of 200 players, the World Poker Tour Foxwoods Poker Classic was decided this week at a final table of six players. By the end of the session a relative newcomer to the game had sealed a $1 272 905 first prize victory.

Winner Raj Patel has been playing for only two years, but his smart and aggressive style overcame more experienced players and carried him to the final heads up with Paul Matteo, and that million dollar victory. Matteo's second placing earned him $643 275, and the other four compeititors at the final table were all in six figure dollar territory.

Patel told reporters that he was a casino gambler who became interested in poker when he watched a WPT telecast, and the big money to be made in international tournaments. He spoke with friends who were poker players to learn the game, watched more television games and then entered a few smaller tourneys at Foxwoods. There he made more friends who knew the game and extended his knowledge, eventually playing in bigger torunaments at Foxwoods and at the Borgata, where he finished 63rd.

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