UA student wins more than $300,000 in Vegas poker tournament

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. A University of Alabama student earned more than 300-thousand dollars with a skill not taught in the classroom: Texas Hold 'Em.

Rob Berryman parlayed a 16 dollar venture into a six-figure bonanza at the World Series of Poker's event in Las Vegas.

His story began three weeks ago when he spent that 16 dollars to enter and win his first online tournament. That earned him a place in an online tournament at PokerStars-dot-com, where he won a buy-in to the Las Vegas tournament.

After five days of play, the 21-year-old finished 33rd out of 8-thousand 773 hopefuls. He earned 329-thousand 865 dollars. The grand prize was 12 (M) million.

But don't think Berryman is going to turn his card-playing hobby into a career. He says he just had - quote -- "one run of luck."

His father, Steve Berryman, says his son, a senior finance major, plans to return to Alabama to get his degree.

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