Man wins €72,000 at poker tournament he didn’t even mean to enter

One mistake can be very costly for a professional poker player, but Christian Pham's blunder proved to be very lucrative.

The 40-year-old entered a World Series of Poker event last week, that he had no intention of competing in. He thought he had signed up for the no-limit Texas hold 'em competition, but he instead wound up in the slightly different no-limit deuce-to-seven lowball draw tournament.

"I thought I had registered for the $1,500 limit hold 'em, I would've unregistered if I knew what the event was."

Pham couldn't withdraw from the tournament and despite having never played the game before, he decided to give it his best shot. Luckily for Pham, his brazenness paid off. In fact, it earned him a cool $81,314 (€72,163) to be precise.

“We don’t have this game in Minnesota [where Pham lives]. I learned the game at the table. I was figuring out what to do as I went along, and I also got lots of good cards. That helped, too." “Now, I love this game.”

No kidding. Hat-tip to Bleacher Report