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Poker’s ‘Best College Player in the Country’ Announced

World Poker Exchange Names winner of their Intercollegiate Poker Championship

Thursday 17th March 2005

World Poker Exchange have announced that Nate Belt, from the University of Kentucky, is the winner of their Intercollegiate Poker Championship.

Belt competed against five other regional finalists in a live March 14 tournament held in Cancun, Mexico and hosted by ‘MTV Real World: Las Vegas’ star, Trishelle Cannatella. Belt emerged the victor and was subsequently named the ‘Best College Player in the Country’ by World Poker Exchange officials. Finishing in second and third places were Ryan Demeter of Vanderbilt University and Devin Hanneman of the University of Utah, respectively.

‘I've been playing poker for fun for a little over three years now and never thought it would amount to my playing with the pros at the London Open,’ Belt said in statement today.

Belt prize includes a $10,000 cash scholarship, a laptop and an all expense paid five-day trip to the UK to compete in the World Poker Exchange London Open on August 3-6, 2005. Nate will receive free entry into the televised competition worth $10,000, and play for a share in a minimum prize pot of $2 million with some of the world's top poker players.

The World Poker Exchange Intercollegiate Poker Championship was an online and offline poker championship with no entrance fee. Open to students from 120 top universities throughout the U.S., the tournament attracted more than 1,000 students. On March 2, the six regional winners were chosen and sent to compete in the live final World Poker Exchange tournament which was filmed and delay streamed by IFILM.com.

‘The college sector is one of the fastest growing demographic segments of on-line poker,’ says Haden Ware, CEO of World Poker Exchange, ‘which is why we chose to host the final table at ground zero of Spring Break, where college students celebrate the very trends they alone define.’




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