21 year old wins major tournament
Posted by Carl Barnett on 05 Mar 2010 at 14:03
A 21 year old prodigy has just won a major online poker tournament.
Ashton Griffin is from Lake Worth, Florida, and he has just won the NAPT Venetian High Roller Bounty Shootout.
During the contest he eliminated six opponents, with a final payout of $560,000 at the end of the session.
This was a live tournament, and Griffin’s biggest live tournament win to date.
The invitational tournament had a $25,000 buy-in, and featured an impressive list of players, most of them coming from the top 49 players in the world.
The field was divided up into seven tables, each of which held seven players, through a table draw that was entirely random.
A total of $5,000 was taken from each player’s buy-in amount and was used as cash bounty.
If a player eliminated another player, they would receive that player’s cash bounty.
The seven winners from the opening round heats were given a place at the top table, and $75,000 in cash.
The top three players at the end of the session, including Griffin, netted a combined total of around $750,000.
Online poker is a very popular game in the United States, and it is also becoming more popular around the world too.
