Poker player wins $3.7m

2006-04-26 17:00:00

A lowly card dealer has shocked the poker playing community by winning $3.76 million in the World Poker Tour championship.

Joe Bartholdi, a 26-year-old from California, beat 604 other players to win the staggering jackpot.

Despite working as a card dealer in Las Vegas, Bartholdi didn't think he had the skills to win but his friends told him otherwise.

He told AP: "I changed my mind and decided to believe as well. I was at the point of total bankruptcy…It just came in at the right time."

At one point, he was so poor he even owed around $80,000 in credit card debt.

The runner up Davidson Matthew from Canada won $1.9 million as a sweet consolation prize.

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