Local Priest Plays Poker

Yesterdays local paper had an article about a local priest that not only likes to play poker, but must be pretty good at the game as well. His name is Andrew Trapp and the 28-year-old serves as assistant pastor at St. Michael Catholic Church in Garden City Beach, South Carolina.

Now some may see poker as a sin, but I’m not one of them. Personally I feel eating can be a sin…just as most anything in life can be if you abuse it or let it control your life (cept maybe breathing). Yeah, even computer video games for those of you that do nothing but sit and play all day and might be ignoring your family or lifes responsibilities can be living in sin .

Trapp’s thoughts on poker being sin ? “In Catholicism, the sinfulness of playing games of chance is a matter of moderation,” Trapp said. It’s one thing to play for fun or a $10 bingo hand. It’s quite another for a man to gamble away an entire check his family needs to make ends meet. Now I’m no Cathilic, don’t really claim to be anything but a man, but I have to agree with this 100%.

Anyhow, back to the priest. Seems that Trapp likes to play at PokerStars and has won himself a seat in the PokerStars.Net Million Dollar Challenge. He’ll taking a trip to Los Angeles this weekend for TV tapings of the first two episodes. The show is scheduled to begin airing next month on the Fox TV network.

“All you had to do to get on the show was to enter a free online tournament,” he explained. Andrew Trpp made it to the Top 10, then for the second round he had to create a YouTube video and producers of the TV show selected him to compete in the show.

Trapp says that he began playing as a youngster with family and friends just for fun. “I’m pretty good, but not like a pro.” Trap says any winnings will be donated to the church that he attends.

We at CarolinaGambler wish the man luck.

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