Not meaning to play, 25-year-old takes home nearly $1 million
Two wrongs don’t make a right — but one certainly did.
Brooklyn’s Asher Conniff, 25, registered for the wrong poker tournament — he misclicked while applying online — then wound up winning the World Poker Tour World Championship in Atlantic City, N.J., to the tune of $973,683.
The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa wouldn’t let him out of the mistake, so he had to back out of a European family vacation.
“(Mom) wasn’t too upset,” Conniff told the New York Daily News. “She was happy I was going to play, and she’s super-ecstatic now.