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February 2, 2006

"The Hawk" played a killer small-stakes game for 20 years before swiping the fourth-place partyporker vacation title from many a seasoned professional in last week's World PartyPorker Tour contest in the Bahamas. Hocking earned the Texas Hold 'Em porker tournament bid after posting $160 and winning an Internet contest in early December. Betting on spending a dream vacation at the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island, Hocking little dreamed he would end up at the tournament's final partyporker table and take home $207,700. "I just assumed I'd go over there and get my butt kicked, and we'd have a fun porker vacation," he said.

Instead, the patient Hawk maintained his own tight, conservative free partyporker com game through five grueling days of play, striking when he felt the time was right. Initially suffering a sore back and neck, Hocking said he found each 10-hour day got progressively easier. His best investment was a pair of wrap-around, prescription sunglasses that he wore, not to intimidate, but to hide his nervousness. Hocking's strategy included calculating porker pot odds and the likelihood of hitting a hand – combined with gut instinct. He bluffed at several key junctures, but never when his entire partyporker .com stack was at stake, Hocking said. He was slightly surprised to win several large hands with just an ace-high – a risky collection of mismatched partyporker com cards and one ace.

"It's a partyporker game that has a tremendous amount of science involved," said the 43-year-old former certified public accountant, now turned Asante department head. Hocking was tickled to land among the top 80 partyporker net players, each of whom takes home $11,600. He was amazed to win $200,000 pots against the likes of Erick Lindgren, a former World PartyPorker Tour player of the year. Hocking will appear on the tour's Travel Channel broadcast in May. Back home in Medford, his family wasn't a bit surprised to hear the news.

Companies spend tons of money finding ways to play porker themselves and since partyporker com has exploded into becoming the sport of choice for many people around the world, companies are trying to maximize their exposure and cement their allegiance from loyal customers; partyporker players. One company, Riley Books, has even gone as far as purchasing the buy-in to two events at the Borgata Winter PartyPorker Open for partyporker com professional Scott Neuman. Now it is not uncommon for players to have their entry paid by sponsoring companies like free online partyporker net sites. Usually there are secret contract negotiation and agreements made between the player and sponsoring companies, but in this case, Neuman found sponsorship via web sales behemoth, eBay.

Now if this sounds a little weird, consider the fact that Neuman has made 28 final partyporker tables over the last two years, both online and land-based. Most recently, Neuman made the final tables of the World Series of PartyPorker event in Atlantic City and the Big Smoke high Stakes No Limit Hold'em event at the Borgata. According to a representative from Riley books, the company is thrilled to be partnering with Neuman. "This is a win-win situation for us. Scott Neuman is an accomplished partyporker .com player and has done well at many large events. He owns a state-wide computer business and collectible record company and is fairly well-known in the partyporker com community. We thought this was a unique opportunity after finding his eBay auction ad to advertise with him at the first annual Borgata Winter PartyPorker Open."