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UW poker player wins $1.5M

A 23-year-old UW-Madison philosophy student from Sheboygan is the poker world’s latest million dollar baby.

Thursday night, in Tunica, Miss., John Stolzmann won the Jack Binion World Poker Open, and $1,465,944, topping a strong field of much better-known players including Chau Giang of Las Vegas, who finished second.