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Tuesday 23rd May 2006

Peter The Great Wins Inaugural Russian Poker Tourney

Prepare yourself for plenty of lazy descriptions, obvious puns and terrible Russian jokes. Peter Vlasenko, a Moscow-based poker player, has won the inaugural St Petersburg Open and immediately been dubbed the new �Tsar of Poker�. �Peter The Great�, as he has also come to be known, picked up $84,000 at the Party Poker backed event held at the Golden Garden Casino. The event saw the largest prize pool on Russian poker history on offer: $500,000. The Tsar saw off plenty of stiff competition in what was his first ever major live game. He normally plays high stakes online. Mark Vronskiy, a veteran pro from St Petersburg was beaten into second place when his pocket threes failed to beat Vlasenko�s pair of eights, which he hit on the turn. Whether �Peter The Great� can rule like his despotic namesake remains to be seen.

Source: OnlineCasinoNews

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