2007 February 01 Poker News, Events and Happenings - Page 3

When the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event whittled down to the last few players who would walk out with nothing, Hoa Mahn Nguyen wasn’t aware that he would soon be known as the World Series of Poker “Bubble Boy”. Online poker site PaddyPowerPoker.com had plans on giving the last player to leave the WSOP without getting any money a free spot in their Irish Poker Open 2007. The only problem was, they couldn’t find him…

The story is making the rounds of the Internet, but sounds too improbable to be true. In the news stories a Russian man found himself out of cash in a poker game and wagered his wife instead. He lost the hand and the winner, Sergey Brodov, eventually turned up at the house of Tatiana and Andrei Karpov, from Murmansk, to claim his reward…