Oklahoma Rancher Wins Huge WPT Prize

Augie Foxx Wins Entry into 15 WPT Events

Professional poker tournament players who don't know who Augie Foxx is will have plenty of chances to get to know him in the next three years.

Foxx, who is a 62-year-old rancher out of Idabel, Okla., won buy-ins to 15 World Poker Tour events earlier this month at the WPT Season Pass Caribbean Conference. The prize is worth $160,000.

He was one of 196 players who ponied-up $3,995 to attend the five-day conference, which was hosted by Mike Sexton and included many poker pros that hosted seminars.

The climax of the week was a poker tournament where attendees played for the season pass grand prize. Foxx won entries to the following tournaments: The Mirage Poker Showdown, Mandalay Bay Poker Championship, Grand Prix de Paris, Bicycle Casino Legends of Poker, Borgata Poker Open, North American Poker Championship, Foxwoods' World Poker Finals, Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic, PokerStars.com Caribbean Poker Adventure, Tunica World Poker Open, Commerce Casino's L.A. Poker Classic and WPT Invitational, Bay 101 Shooting Star, World Poker Challenge and the WPT World Championship.

Foxx also received $14,000 for travel expenses. He has the next three seasons to use his entries.

The top three finishers also received big prizes at the conference. Second place winner, Chris Stadler, won a $25,000 buy-in to the WPT World Championship in April, and the third place winner, Laurie Church, won a $10,000 WPT buy-in to the tournament of her choice.

The 196 people who attended the conference, which was held at one of the Cable Beach Resorts in the Bahamas, also got to pick the brains of these poker professionals for the five days they were there: T.J. Cloutier, Clonie Gowen, Mark Seif, Gavin Smith, Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly, Antonio Esfandiari, Chip and Karina Jett, Todd Brunson, and Kathy Leibert.

News Added: 14 December, 2006

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