It’s all happening in Australia. Someone is changing jobs. But who? Here’s a clue:
Writer Nelson Algren suggests ‘Never play cards with a man named Doc’. Well, we need to include a man with a nametag that states, ‘Hi, I’m Darren - I’m happy to help you’.
Darren Booth, a 19 year old, part time supermarket worker, has gone from bags to riches by wheeling away the $91,000 1st prize in the Adelaide Hold ‘em championship at the Skycity casino.
He won his share of the $340,000 pool, beating a smattering of TV known pros, including 2005 WSOP winner, Aussie Joe Hachem. Impressed? It gets better - he had to win his seat by playing regional tournaments.
As Hatchem gushed, ‘It is fantastic that a young man, playing his first tournament, triumphs’
The shelf stacker started playing poker only recently, so his game was unblemished by crippling fears of outrageous breaches of probability. (Ed – too much personal pain.) He even had the humility to return to work the next day, but his future will surely amount to more than a stack of beans. It could be fame, fortune and his own Wikipedia page. Australia heralds a new dawn.
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