Lebanon’s Chouity Wins Big at the EPT

Congratulations to Nicolas Chouity for winning and making his country proud:

It was a sweet victory for Nicolas Chouity when he remained the last man standing at the European Poker Monte Carlo Main Event, Friday.
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With Chouity snagging the EPT Monte Carlo Main Event title, he has displayed strong playing skills that everyone in the poker community in his country is proud of.  Having a singular casino to play poker in, the Lebanese community of poker players is tight-knit and their rallying behind Chouity in the main event paid off handsomely.
Nicolas Chouity is just the 2^nd Lebanese player to win in the EPT Main Event, after Joseph Mouawad won in the European Poker Tournament London Season 4.
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With the prestige of getting the title, Chouity also became richer by 1.7 million EUR.

So apparently you can make a decent living by being a pro in poker. Interesting job; right up there with porn star and performing artist (not necessarily mutual exclusive).

Nicolas Chouity: eliminated all but one of his opponents at the final table

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Gambling Your Education

I’m sure you’ve all heard it before. Lebanon boosts the best universities in the Middle East … blah, blah, and so on. Well, I think our selection of higher education has just got better when I found this in my Inbox this morning:

Poker Classes: Game Theory Lebanon

In the event you need to sharpen your hands at cards, the “school” offers you 30 one-hour classes over 15 weeks to graduate as a pro. Otherwise, if you just want to have a good time (which is the real reason why you go to university anyway), they are offering a “Poker is Fun” mini-class to cover the basics. The school’s website can be found here and I must say, I thank them for adding a link to Casino du Liban on their website. It would be quite detrimental if I gained my degree in advanced Poker and had no where in Lebanon to try my hand.

Oh, I almost forgot, applications for scholarships are open. You just need to bring in your own deck of cards and the cost of the tuition as your bet.

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