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Friday 26th January 2007 Paddy Power Get Their Manh
Hoa Manh Nguyen, World Series of Poker 'bubble boy' has finally been discovered alive and well living in Sunnyvale, California, and will be flown over to the €2 million guaranteed Irish Poker Open held in Dublin over Easter Weekend 2007.
Nguyen was labelled the 'unluckiest poker player of 2006' after being the last person eliminated from the WSOP main event before the money.
A spokesman for the Irish bookmaking and online poker room said, with tongue firmly embedded in cheek, 'We called in a lot of favours to solve this mystery and would like to thank Thomas Magnum, Jim Bergerac, Interpol, Dixon of Dock Green, Petrochelli, Randall, Hopkirk (now sadly deceased), Remington Steele and Hong Kong Phooey. We owe you one guys.'
The 26th Irish Open, which will be filmed for TV, will be the biggest in Europe with a €2 million guaranteed prize pool and a capacity for 700 players paying €3,300 (+€200 reg) to play over Easter Weekend 2007 in Dublin's Burlington Hotel, against the best players in the world.
Now that Nguyen has been tracked down, he has the chance to make amends in Dublin, rubbing shoulders with some of Europe’s best players including Dave Colclough, Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliot, Andy Black and Paddy Power World Strip Poker Champion Jon Young.
Source: OnlineCasinoNews
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