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Article: Las Vegas Poker Tournaments Increasingly Feature Unknown Players.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- April 24, 2004
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By Phil Hevener, Las Vegas Review-Journal Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 24--Poker tournaments were once dominated by a cast of familiar names ... people like Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson and T.J. Cloutier.
Not any more, thanks to the driving power of the Internet and television's love affair with high stakes poker.
Instead, six relative unknowns were competing for a first-place prize of more than $2.7 million when the World Poker Tour's search for a second season champion began its final round of action at the Bellagio Friday night.
"We've got several Chris Moneymakers in the mix," said Bellagio poker boss Doug Dalton, ...