TPJ Featured on local Radio Show

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TPJ Editor George Smart and poker player Christine Wilson will be appearing on WPTF, 680AM, The Bob Langford Show this Saturday night, March 17, at 9pm. Listen in and have a chance to win a 500-chip poker set!


Bob Langford

Christine Wilson

Christine came back a winner from the 2006 World Series of Poker. She went into her last day of play in the Main Event with $178,000 in chips and came out in 193rd place with over $42,000 in cold hard cash. She beat over 8700 players including poker professionals like Greg Raymer and Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Dewey Tomko, Tom McEvoy, Cyndi Violette, and Chris Moneymaker.



Christine, who goes by Chris to all her many Triangle poker buddies, started playing in 2003 when she first started watching the World Poker Tour on TV. From the couch she sprang to the felt, playing in the Durham Poker League and the Raleigh Poker League. When asked about how she learned the game so fast, she responded "mostly by watching."


Out at the WSOP, her journey to the top was "really exciting." Wilson racked in chips against multiple pros like Joe Hachem, Daniel Negreanu, and Allen Goehring. She had breakfast with 1983WSOP champ Tom McEvoy -- who she knows through her 7th grade math teacher and chess coach Richard Sanborn, Tom's college roommate at Ferris State.


How much did winning the $42,000 cost her? Just $55. Yep, that's it. By playing qualifiers on Party Poker, she won a $10,000 seat and all expenses to Las Vegas.




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