16 Locals Headed To WSOP
Vegas Event Prize Is $9.1M
POSTED: Wednesday, June 24, 2009
UPDATED: 2:15 pm EDT June 24,
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- If you play poker, then the World Series of Poker is your Super Bowl, and some players dream of just sitting down and saying they were there.This year, eight men and eight women from the Poker Room at the St. John's Greyhound Park and the Orange Park Kennel Club qualified for the World Series by winning a satellite tournament.Now they're all making the trip July 3 to Las Vegas and the Rio Casino.The prize up for grabs is $9.1 million.As many as 12,000 players will try to survive the two-week mental endurance marathon.
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