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A Sour Ending To Poker Millions

JASON Potter is a young American. He went Australia to compete in the Aussie Millions poker tournament.

The game is over. Russian Alexander Kostritsyn, 21, has trousered the $1.6 million top prize.

But Potter is potless.

Having finished in a creditable 31st place, Potter went for celebratory McDonald's. He then walked back to his hotel room at Crown Plaza.

Says he: "I had already been home to my hotel room but decided to go out and get something to eat because I was hungry."

Then drama. A man. A knife. Potter is relived of his $3,000.

Says he: "I heard someone running resolutely behind me. As I turned around I just got knocked on the back of the head. I fell down and this guy reached immediately into my hooded pocket."

Did Potter fight back, hold out an even bigger knife in the mode of Mick Dundee, or a sub-automatic machine gun, as in the mode of an American?
No.

"I thought about trying to fight him but I thought no amount of money is worth it," he says.

He should have stayed at home and played online - not that you can in America...

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