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Article: Florida's Thliveros Wins $200,000 in Wal-Mart FLW Tour, $1 Million Bass Tournament.
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- Business Wire
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- June 28, 1999
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DETROIT--(BW SportsWire)--June 26, 1999--
Thirty-nine-year-old Pete Thliveros of Jacksonville, Florida, won first place and $200,000 in the Forrest Wood Open, the sixth tournament of the Wal-Mart FLW Tour, held on Lake St. Clair. The event featured a $1 million purse, the largest in competitive bass fishing.
Thliveros survived three rounds of elimination competition and 149 other top professional anglers en route to the Wal-Mart FLW Tour victory. Competing in the final round of competition against Larry Nixon of Bee Branch, Arkansas, Art Ferguson of Rochester, Michigan, David Reault of Livonia, Michigan, and Kevin Van Dam of Kalamazoo, Michigan, ...