Investment Banker is New Poker Pro
A new poker professional entered the scene on March 7th, when Jim
Davenport won the “Become a Poker Pro” tournament put on by online poker
room Pokerroom.com.
Davenport is an investment and bank analyst, and beat out a tough field
on the Royal Caribbean Majesty of the Seas over the weekend.Davenport
can say goodbye to the world of customers and businessmen –at least for
a year- as he took away a total prize package of $250,000 and will be
sponsored by Pokerroom.com for the next year. He will receive $60,000 in
cash, and have all of his expenses covered for twelve tournament during
this year, including the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event.
Davenport was behind the leaders for most of the tournament, but came
back to dominate all of the action in the last hour of play. He called
an all-in bet with A-Q after the flop came A-J-7 to win the tournament.
His opponent held Q-7, and it wasn’t enough to overcome the Ace on the
turn. Davenport said that although the tournament has ended, he is still
feeling nervous. He was quoted as saying that he believes in doing
something that make him feel excited to go to work in the mornings, and
he is ecstatic about his new employer.
The “Become a Poker Pro” tournament saw all players who had own
satellites for poker tournaments in the last two years compete. The
tournament began online, with 69 players, and players carried their chip
stacks into the final table that was played live on the cruise ship.
Davenport went into the heads up trailing in the chip count by a margin
of 2:1, but it was all aggressive play from there, and in the end, that
paid off.
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