Paradise Freeroll winner featured on BBC News and Radio

[TylerD]

The BBC has this on their website:
BBC News story

and more unusually BBC Radio 1 had a short piece on him on their lunctime news.

The state of online poker today:

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Lee Biddulph, of Thornton Cleveleys, near Blackpool, beat eight US opponents in the final in Costa Rica, despite having never won more than £28 before.

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he did not rule out turning professional in the future.

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I was actually glad to see someone who could really use the money win, as opposed to, say, a software engineer from Arizona.