My little sister has been seeing a guy who fancies himself a poker player.

Yesterday he entered the $200+$15 NL tournament on Pokerstars. There were 8118 players. Below is the email he received at the end of the tournament...

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From: PokerStars Support [support@pokerstars.com]
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:13 AM
To: XXXXXXX
Subject: Results for PokerStars Tournament 144032321

PokerStars Tournament #144032321, No Limit Hold'em
Buy-In: $200.00/$15.00
8118 players
Total Prize Pool: $1623600.00
Tournament started 2009/03/08 17:30:00 ET


Dear XXXXXXX,

You finished the tournament in 1st place. A $198,891.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account.

You earned 2,974.72 tournament leader points in this tournament. For information about our tournament leader board, see our web site at http://www.pokerstars.com/poker/tournaments/leader-board/


Congratulations!

Thank you for participating.