olivia boeree/liv 'Iron Maiden' wins £1m in poker tournament

As a model, TV presenter and astrophysics graduate, there are many strings to Liv Boeree’s bow But now she can add a new one   poker ace The 25-year-old brunette beat 1,240 contestants at a major tournament to win a cool £1.1millionShe paid only 500 euros to enter the European Poker Tour and scooped the life-changing sum with just a pair of fives, seeing off a tough professional rival.

Beautiful women university graduates in the UK has won more than one million pounds  in a poker tournament in San Remo, Italy. Olivia Boeree, 25, became the third woman ever to win the European Poker tour (EPT) and capable of beating 1240 other players and reached 1.25 million Euros fantastic prizes.

Olivia, whose nickname is Liv, who majored in astrophysics at the University of Manchester, admitted could not believe it when the beat Jakob Carlsson, a Swedish professional poker player. “I can hardly believe it can overcome the most difficult situations in my life. EPT tournaments I’ve won, and won a fantastic prize,” he said. “Unbelievable, I am a scientist but could win the EPT tournament. It’s really a strange feeling,” she wrote on her Twitter page.

In addition to the nickname, she also has a popular name Iron Maiden. This name at Liv, because his favorite types of heavy metal music. Liv never took part in a reality show on Channel 5. While electric guitar, he sang songs of heavy metal.After leaving university, she took part in, and won, a number of TV game shows. Following one appearance, she was approached by Channel 4 and invited to audition for Carol Vorderman’s spot on Countdown.

She didn’t get the job, but her big break came when she was asked to take part in a Channel 5 programme called Ultimate Poker Showdown and was taught to play the game that has made her a millionaireSince then, she has worked as a TV presenter on poker channels, hosted an MTV heavy metal music awards programme and modelled for men’s magazines Loaded and Maxim, as well as appearing on the covers of gambling magazinesOver the past three years, she estimates she has won a total of £1.8million in tournaments across Europe, Australia and America, and is now ranked ninth in the league of top poker players.

The biggest prize ever won when the prize was given 30 000 Pounds Eupean Ladies tournament. Liv’s total revenues from various tournament that followed around 1.3 Million Ponds (USD 17 Billion). Currently only one dream Liv, EPT tournament in Monte Carlo. Prize money will be invested to purchase the property. “I will invest to buy a property in Las Vegas and London. I really like with these two cities,” he said.

She claims her best weapon against opponents is her trademark ‘Liv Stare’, which she uses to rattle their nerves.Despite her success, she still lives at home in Milstead, a small village near Sittingbourne, Kent, with her mother Elaine Cross, 54, who runs a business selling suitcases and handbags, and stepfather Tony Cross, 53, a retired police constable.

Mrs Cross said: ‘She’s not really a gambler, that’s the irony of it. She’s very sensible and extremely careful with her money.’She added that her daughter had a ‘ mathematical brain and an incredible poker face’, saying: ‘I don’t play her at Scrabble any more. She’s very competitive, she always has to win.’Miss Boeree’s father, publisher Chris Boeree, 60, said: ‘She looks a million dollars and other players must be fazed by her.’

priest wins $100,000 for church in poker game

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COLUMBIA, S.C.  A South Carolina priest missed the $1 million top prize in a poker tournament to be televised this weekend but he won $100,000 for his church and he hopes his participation gives viewers a “fun twist” on their perceptions of the priesthood.The Rev. Andrew Trapp said he entered the PokerStars.net Million Dollar Challenge in hopes of putting St. Michael Catholic Church “super close” to its $5.5 million fundraising goal to build a new facility. He also wanted to strike a public relations blow for priests.”At the very least, even if I didn’t win any prize money, I was hoping it would help people to see that priests can have fun and be normal people and hopefully get a little bit of a fun twist on the image of the priesthood,” the assistant pastor said Tuesday.

The top prize went to retired New York Police detective Mike Kosowski. But Trapp won $100,000, untaxed, in a semifinal round in October for the coastal church’s building fund, which has amassed $4 million after four years of fundraising.

For the final episode, a camera crew filmed a Sunday Mass at the church, about 10 miles southwest of Myrtle Beach, and taped Trapp talking about the need for a new building.

“It’s really old. It’s too small for our needs, and it’s really vulnerable if a hurricane comes,” he says in a segment on PokerStars.net.He adds, “God gave me a gift of playing cards – that interest, that hobby – and I could put it to use to help build our church. That just was really exciting for me.”Congregants will gather Sunday afternoon at the church to watch the final televised round.

The 28-year-old Aiken native said he started playing poker in middle school at family gatherings. But it was in seminary in Columbus, Ohio, that he learned Texas Hold ‘Em.

“We just played for fun,” he said. “It was just a way to hang out with each other and to enjoy each other’s company.”Ordained in July 2007, Trapp is the youngest Catholic priest in the statewide diocese.”A lot of young people out there, young Catholics, have never seen a young priest,” he said, adding that maybe the show will lead others to consider the profession.

Before playing, Trapp got permission from his pastor, who told him to “go for it.” The Charleston bishop later gave him permission to be on TV, he said.Joseph Ohens, executive assistant to the bishop, confirmed Trapp had the bishop’s permission. “He wanted to show the world that priests are human beings like every one of us. … He wanted to demystify priesthood.”

To earn a spot on the poker finals, Trapp had to place among the top 10 in a free Internet tournament involving 10,000 contestants, then submit a two-minute audition video.Trapp said he knew he would be chosen if he could just earn the right to audition: A poker-playing priest would attract attention and viewers. He played in his priestly attire. Since that’s what he’s used to wearing, it would’ve felt weird not to, he said.

PokerStars.net notes Trapp’s profession in promoting the show, calling it “a story of biblical proportions.” Officials from PokerStars.net did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

Trapp calls it a game show where, instead of answering trivia questions, he plays cards. “This isn’t even gambling, so to speak,” he said, since everything, including the trips to Los Angeles, was cost-free to him and the church.

Trapp said the Catholic church doesn’t see a moral problem with playing cards or games of chance, within reason.”It’s a question of moderation – just like anything else,” he said. “We believe it’s fine to enjoy a beer or glass of wine, but not to abuse it to get drunk.”