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Ex-footballer Makes Comeback ...As a Poker Player29 November 2005SCOTLAND, UK -- As reported by the Evening Times: "Former Celtic player Tony Cascarino is hoping to scoop a fortune at his new career - playing professional poker. "And the big striker, a record signing for the Hoops back in the 1990s, is backing plans to build a super casino at Ibrox. "Cascarino jetted off to the sun-kissed island of St Kitts with Scotland's only sponsored poker professional, Greenock's Tony Chessa. "...he became a professional poker player three years ago and was the outright winner of a mini-series at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas earlier this year, netting a five-figure prize. "The pair (Cascarino and Chessa) have now been given £6500 each to take on some of the world's best players for a pot of $2million in the Caribbean Poker Classic..." |