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There are poker faces, and there are faces you barely recognize.

Have no clue who Jack Oliver is? You’re not alone, but you may be seeing more of the 26-year-old after his recent multi-million-pound jackpot in Las Vegas.

A sixty-three-year-old man named Harlan Miller recently made a decision that may seem unethical to some but turned his life upside down in just one night. Miller is an uncle to a young lady that was getting married in Montana during the weekend of early June 2021. As she invited him to come to the wedding, he happily agreed and was planning for it until he found out that the MSPT Venetian $1100 Main Event was happening during that exact time. So he did what any Poker lover would do - ditched the plans to attend the ceremony and went to the tournament to test his luck. But of course, it wasn’t a decision based on mere desire to gamble, but the intense feeling of luck he felt.

Despite the ultimate success in the world of Poker, Dennis Blieden decided to dabble in misappropriation of funds and got the prize of a lifetime - a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence. And if that’s not enough of a punishment, the trickster will be forced to pay $22.7 million in restitution, which is the exact amount he snatched from his former employer for making bets in Poker.

Poker is a game, but since it usually involves money, it could become a lot more than a simple form of entertainment. And if people are willing to flip a table during a game of monopoly with fake cash, imagine the anger that could surface when real money is on the line. A 61-year-old man named Joseph Berry serves as an unfortunate example of how unpredictable people can be when a Poker game goes wrong.