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Poker winner scoops huge prize

The world's biggest-ever official prize for the card game, poker, has been won by a forty-two-year-old man from London.

John Duthie scooped the one-and-a-half million dollar prize by winning the Poker Million championship on the Isle of Man.

He was one of six finalists competing for the award.

All had been playing poker for up to twelve hours a day since the tournament began on Thursday.

A total of a hundred and fifty players began the competition.

The organisers say the tournament was watched by tens of millions of people around the world.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service