Washington wins celebrity tour
Posted by Carl Barnett on 11 Mar 2010 at 10:03
Leron Washington, a famous boxer of some repute, has enjoyed great success at a recent celebrity poker contest.
The World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational is a major event that involves celebrities from the world of movies and TV, as well as sports professionals.
At the final table every year there is a mix of celebrities from these fields as well as one or two international poker stars.
The final table took place this week, and involved players from a variety of fields, such as reality TV stars and real life poker players, and Washington, who won in the end.
His win means that he now has a place in the World Poker Tour Championship. Washington was a qualifier for the tournament, making it into the play via a satellite game played on an online poker site.
This makes his achievement all the more impressive.
He now faces the world’s best poker players at the World Poker Tour Championship, where the competition will be fierce.
Poker has enjoyed something of a renaissance of late, a surge in popularity that was fuelled by the explosion of online poker sites in recent months.
