21-year-old film student is the youngest to win World Series of Poker event
Back in my old poker days, my friends and I would fantasize what it’d be like to get ahold of the buy-in money to enter a major poker tournament. Well, one 21-year-old did: In one tournament he won $97,552, and the other he got first place and $660,948:
A 21-year-old film student from Los Angeles who dipped into a college fund and his parents’ wallets for his entry stakes has become the youngest player to win a World Series of Poker event.
Jeff Madsen, at 21 years, 1 month, 9 days old, outlasted 1,578 players in a three-day, $2,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em event, to earn $660,948 and his first World Series of Poker bracelet late Sunday night
The coolest thing about this whole win is the fact that he’s a film student. I really hope that he uses at least some of that money to put together an independent film. Darren Aronofsky would have killed for that amount of money back when he was struggling to make Pi.
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