Harold Angle
August 19th, 2010 August 19th, 2010 Posted in Gambling Luck, Universe Of Games, Web Of FunComments Off
Harold Angle won the $1,000 Seniors no limit hold em poker World Championship at the World Series of Poker on Monday morning. It was the biggest senior’s poker event ever on record, with Angle outlasting a field of 3,142 players to win $487,994.. No senior’s-related online poker tournament has ever broken the 3,000-player mark prior to this monster-sized attraction.
Angle is a 78-year-old retiree from Sun City, Fla. He formerly worked in sales for a major show manufacturer. He was the eldest of nine players at the final table. In fact, some of the players in their 50s were “young” enough to be Angle’s children.
At one point during the first day of play, the Floridian was down to just 400 in chips a mere 13 percent of his original starting stack of 3,000. Angle stated he did not win a single pot during the first two levels of play.
Angle was born in 1931 in Portsmouth, Ohio, and has been married to his wife Fern for 60 years. He has three children, 10 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. One of Angle’s grandchildren is a cheerleader for the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars. Angle wore his “lucky” Jacksonville Jaguars cap the entire tournament.
Angle said he played his first hand of poker in 1946. It was in a pool hall in Ohio. The game they played was five-card stud with a $1 buy-in. Angle sometimes plays poker at the Hard Rock Casino near Tampa, Fla.