Poker Playing Priest Gambles for Fun and Money

My hat is off to you sir. It's nice to see the someone in the cloth loosening up a bit to play some cards.

Here's a new-to-me twist -- a card-playing priest, rosary handy, stars in the lead-off of a TV poker competition this weekend.

Father Andrew Trapp, an assistant pastor at St. Michael Catholic Church in Garden City Beach, S,C, has won $25,000 -- so far as the PokerStars publicists will say -- and the right to keep on playing in the show's Million Dollar Challenge, which begins airing on FOX on Sunday.

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