Anthony Jones wins Ladbrokes Poker Million

Anthony Jones, 42, from town Romford, a simple, roughly speaking manager, won one million 1,000,000$ on the Ladbrokes Poker Millionwhich took place last Friday. Ladbrokes Poker Million is the number one tournament in Europe as the most televised tournament. The total prize pool was 1,935,000$.

Married Jones, with 3 children, was initially considered an outsider, on an equal footing with players such as Andrew Black - fifth place final tournament at the 2005 WSOP Eric Sagstrom is a 22-year-old online player, winner of last year's Ladbrokes Poker Million, famous Helen Chamberlain, also winner of the 2005 WSOP Grand Prize and Bracelet - Joseph Hachem (Joe Hachem).

Jones himself started playing poker in December 2003, and got to this tournament after winning a qualifying freeroll on the Internet.

The thrilling final lasted 5 hours, between Anthony Jones and Helen Chamberlain, the latter ending up in second place with 400,000$. Martin Wendt, who made it to the final as a chip leader, ended up only finishing third with a win of 200,000$.

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