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Monday, August 08, 2005

Welsh producer scoops $750k poker prize

Poker Gazette - Think poker and you think of dim-lit, smoke-filled rooms at the back of seedy bars where villains do deals and desperate, hard-up men gamble for their lives.

But not any more. Thanks largely to the Internet, the card game loved by many a gangster has risen from its underworld roots and is taking the respectable world by storm.

So it should come as no surprise that this weekend's winner of a major international poker tournament should not be a cigar-smoking baddie with a pistol under the table and a worrying Italian accent but a middle-class television producer from Cardiff.

Iwan Jones is celebrating today after winning $750,000 in the London Open lifestyle poker tournament. He eliminated some of the world's top poker competitors and Hollywood heavyweights to win first place after a final nail-biting round in the early hours of yesterday morning.

Iwan, 35, beat 138 players at the four-day tournament at Old Billingsgate Market, including the young Swedish prodigy, Mikael Thuritz, to win the jackpot.

Not bad for someone who only started playing the game three years ago. "It was terrific," said Iwan, who plans to share the prize money with friends who helped him raise money to enter the competition.

Some of it will also go towards the new house he and his wife Sioned are buying in Cardiff in time for the arrival of their first baby in three months time.

"It was an honour to play against such a strong field of players. This was a top-class tournament and it surpassed my expectations," he said.

Iwan, who works for an independent television company in London, got hooked on poker after a night at a Swansea casino.

The London Open drew some of the most accomplished names in the game from all corners of the globe. The grand-daddy of poker Doyle Brunson and Max "The Italian Pirate" Pescatori demonstrated their consistent proficiency at the tables.

Jennifer Tilly, Mimi Rogers and Willie Garson further proved that Hollywood talent could tax the felt with as much acumen as those who make their living from the game.

The first ever London Open was held from August 3-6 at London's historical Old Billingsgate Market.

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