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Article: World's Greatest MONOPOLY Players to Roll the Dice for a 'Chance' at Becoming the 2009 MONOPOLY World Champion in Las Vegas.
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- China Weekly News
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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Forty-one of the world's best MONOPOLY players will go head-to-head to compete for the title of 2009 MONOPOLY World Champion starting Wednesday, October 21. In addition to winning international bragging rights, the winner of the 2009 MONOPOLY World Championships at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas will receive $20,580 USD, the equivalent of the "bank" in a standard MONOPOLY game.
The reigning World Champion, Antonio Zafra Fernandez, a 41-year-old laboratory technician from Spain, hopes to retain the title, but he will be playing against a new group of tycoons in training. Only two other competitors, Leon Hechtman, a 26-year-old construction project manager from ...