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Irish National Student Poker Champion crowned

DUBLIN, Ireland -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- The National Student Poker Championship 2008, sponsored by Devilfish Poker, attracted 278 runners to the Regency Airport Hotel, Dublin on Saturday April 5, 2008.

The €65 (+ €7 reg. fee) buy-in event created a total prize pool of €18,070, was run by PokerIreland.ie, and won by James Scullion, a computer science student from Ballymena studying at Queens University, Belfast.

"I'll put some of it away," said Scullion of his €4,000 winnings, "but probably use some to play similar sized buy-in events. I've never played in anything like this before or won anything like this before so it's great."

Scullion travelled to the event with three housemates and about a dozen poker playing friends from Northern Ireland. As he received his prize money his friend was heard to utter "Woahhh! Four grand. That's life changing money".

Twenty-seven players cashed at the event with the top 10 payouts being:

1st James Scullion - €4,000

2nd David Downey - €3,330

3rd Paul Murphy - €3,000

4th Aaron O'Neill - €1,395

5th Samantha Hayes - €1,035

6th Dominic Marley - €905

7th Neil Adams - €725

8th Carlo Popplewell - €540

9th Damien Kent - €360

Event organizer and tournament Director Stephen McLean said, "I think all players, dealers and floor staff would agree that there was really a great atmosphere throughout the tournament. This is what poker should be all about, having fun, a good laugh and experiencing a really good competition."

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