Retired policeman beat Negreanu for $1 Million prize money!

One very lucky online poker player who is a retired police officer from New York City has just beaten one of the world’s best poker players. Mike Kisowski won a massive one million dollars after qualifying through a tournament online at the popular poker website Pokerstars.net and survived to be the last man left in a heads up competition against Daniel Negreanu.

The winner has been playing poker for a number of years since he took it up as a hobby after retiring from police work to fill up some of his free time. He said his wife has always been telling him to pursue the game and it appears as if her advice has hugely paid off.

According to Mike there are a number of things that allowed him to beat some of the greatest poker players around. He said it took patience, people reading skills abut also some great luck and a number of good cards, he said that poker cannot be won simply on skill it also requires good cards in order to end up a winner.

Since winning Mike said that, "I still haven't come down since that day [in early December]," Kosowski said. "It was an amazing experience all together. … Everyday you wake up it's like Groundhog Day and you can't believe what you did. It's just amazing." Mike went on to say that he intends to donate some of the money to a number of charities.

Negreanu praised Mike’s playing and said that he thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the tournament.