A man joins gambler's anonymous. He's given three-to-one odds he won't make it. Event 19 kicked off Sunday with Low, Medium and High variations attracting players of all levels. Event 19 - High saw 495 players spend the $2,100 buy-in to create a prize pool of $990,000. 63 players got paid with Paolo69 of the United Kingdom finishing first for $188,100. Incredibly, eight of the 22 players who made Day 2 of this event were from the U.K. and five of them made the final table. Team PokerStars Pro Lex Veldhuis finished 8th for $22,275 and 2009 SCOOP Mixed Hold'em champion James "Andy McLEOD" Obst finished 17th. The Medium level of Event 19 built almost as large a prize pool as its high-stakes sibling, but it took 4,395 players to do it. With a $215 buy-in players were... holdem poker online