BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - A University of Alabama student who sat out a semester to play in a poker tournament in Australia has won $205,000 playing Texas Hold 'Em with some of the world's best players.
Family and friends gathered at the Birmingham International Airport terminal Sunday to greet Shannon Shorr, 20, of Irondale, who placed fourth in the Aussie Millions Tournament at Melbourne's Crown Casino.
Shorr started playing Internet poker two years ago, but playing for the first time in a live tournament was different.
"You've got to sit there like a stone," Shorr said.
In a starting field of 480 players, he faced off at the final table with the eventual champion Lee Nelson, a New Zealander and author one of the current best-selling books on poker. Despite the outcome, Shorr will be one of the featured players when the tournament airs on television in the United States.
The civil engineering major plans to leave for the Bahamas in about a week to play in the Canadian Poker Championship Main Event.
Information from: The Birmingham News
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