University Student Leaves WSOP Happy

Monday, 16 July 2007

A university student who raised his entry fee by playing other students and borrowing the rest walked away from Las Vegas’ World Series Of Poker (WSOP) with $58,570 in prize money.

A university student who raised his entry fee by playing other students and borrowing the rest walked away from Las Vegas’ World Series Of Poker (WSOP) with $58,570 in prize money.
Michigan native Alan Keating made it into the money at the WSOP after raising half of the $10,000 buy-in playing fellow Michigan State University students and having a friend loan him the rest. He finished 102nd out of 6,358 players and was eliminated by 24-year-old poker pro Maria Ho, the last woman remaining in the field.
'I'm disappointed as I really thought I could win but I feel good about how far I came,' said Keating. 'I play a tight-aggressive style and I pick a spot and when I go in, I go all-in. I never limp into a hand,” said Keating.
The no-limit Texas Hold’em main event was Keating's first big splash on poker's biggest stage. The 21-year-old said that he has been playing the game since high school but said that he had hoped to take the $8.25 million grand prize so he could finish university and ‘pay for college for the entire next generation of my family’.
Keating is a marketing major at Michigan State and although a rookie, sat at the same table as some of poker’s biggest names including former champions Carlos Mortensen and Huckleberry Seed.



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