James Scullion is Irish Student Champion 2008Student Wins 'Life Changing Money' at Well Attended Dublin Event |
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James Scullion, a computer science student from Queens University, Belfast won the Irish National Student Poker Championship 2008 over the weekend. The event, sponsored by Devilfish Poker, attracted 278 runners from all over the country to the Regency Airport Hotel, Dublin.
The €65 (+ €7 reg. fee) buy-in event was fully dealer dealt and created a total prize pool of €18,070. As Scullion, who did a three-way deal with second place David Downey and third place Paul Murphy, received the cash his friend was heard to utter “Woahhh! four grand. That’s life changing money”.
"I'll put some of it away," said Scullion who travelled to the event with three housemates and about a dozen poker playing friends, "but probably use some to play similar sized buy-in events. I've never played in anything like this before or won
anything like this before so its great."
Twenty-seven players cashed at the event with the top 10 payouts being:
Event organizer and tournament Director Stephen McLean from PokerIreland.ie said, “I think all players, dealers and floor staff would agree that there was really a great atmosphere throughout the tournament. This is what poker should be all about, having fun, a good laugh and experiencing a really good competition.”
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