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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Joe Bartholdi Wins WPT Championship

PRNewswire/ – The 2006 WPT World Championship will be remembered in a string of superlatives — the most, biggest and first! Joe Bartholdi of Las Vegas, defeated the brightest poker talent from nearly 40 countries.

The finale of WPT’s Season IV drew a record-breaking 605 entrants, generated the highest ever WPT prize pool of more than $15 million, and for the first time in WPT history, awarded more than a million dollars to a player that qualified on a $25 satellite! Bartholdi pockets a coveted first prize of $3.76 million, the enviable title of WPT World Champion and a seat in the 2007 WPT World Championship at Bellagio.

The WPT World Championship is the crown jewel of the WPT’s fourth season. Its $15 million purse brings the total prize money for the 17 Season IV tournaments to a staggering $85+ million. The riveting shows, currently airing on the Travel Channel every Wednesday night at 9 p.m. ET/PT, have revealed the 20 newest WPT Poker Millionaires. After the WPT World Championship that number rises to 23 as the tournament paid more than $3 million to first place, nearly $2 million to second place and $1 million to third place.

New champion Joe Bartholdi was cheered on by a sizable hometown crowd. His post-tournament plans include taking his cheering section out to “celebrate for a while,” and once the party ends he intends go out and “buy a house.” His friends were also heard to be talking about a Bartholdi-funded trip to the Caribbean. Money is no object for the newest WPT Millionaire.

Second place finisher, Davidson Matthew of Toronto, Canada, enthused, “This tournament has turned me from an amateur to a professional. It’s set me up to play poker. Now if I lose, financially, it just doesn’t matter.”

To put his accomplishment in perspective — his $25 spent on a satellite buy-in to cash over $1.9 million puts his winnings at $76,000+ for every dollar spent — now that’s good investment!

The 2006 WPT World Championship will air on the Travel Channel on Wednesday, June 28th at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

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