Until very recently Chris Elliott was delivering pizzas at night while playing online poker during the day. This past week, Elliott finished among the final nine in the second ever World Series of Poker Europe.

From the Times Online:

Elliot, 33, from Alloa, is living out the dream of the millions of hopefuls who play the game online. He started in a council flat bedroom and ended up a high roller playing against some of then biggest and most glamorous names in the game. Now he plans to go professional, travelling around the world's top casinos with those elite players.

Elliott was knocked out of the final table at 9th place, which was good enough for him to walk off with £81,000, equivalent to almost US$112,000.

"I had an 85 percent chance of winning the hand," says Elliot. "That would have put me in a strong position to go even further and maybe even win it [the top prize with the tournament was more than £800,000]. They gave me a cheque for £81,000 though, a life-changing amount."

This year's World Series of Poker Europe was won by American John Juanda, already a familiar name on the poker circuit having won a few WSOP bracelets.

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Ace King, Gambling911.com