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Peter "The Poet" Costa (born January 17 1956 in Cyprus) to Greek Cypriot parents is an English professional poker player based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

He is most well-known as the winner of the sixth series of the popular Late Night Poker
television series during his time living in the United Kingdom, where he defeated Austria's Jin Cai Lin in the final heads-up encounter to take the £60,000 first prize. He was formerly nicknamed "The Silver Fox", a nickname shared by fellow poker player Mel Judah.

Costa has made three final tables at the World Series of Poker (WSOP):

2002
$2,000 limit hold'em - 9th place ($17,200)
* other finalists included Ram "Crazy Horse" Vaswani
, Huck Seed and T. J. Cloutier
2003
£2,500 seven card stud - 9th place ($3,600)
* other finalists included Mimi Tran and T. J. Cloutier
2005
$1,500 limit hold'em - 7th place ($57,905)

Costa was nominated for both the 2002 and 2003 European Poker Player of the Year awards. In addition, Costa won the Aussie Millions tournament in 2003, and at one time held the record for winning the limit hold-em tournament with the most entrants.

As of 2005, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,400,000.

Outside the poker world, Costa's favourite movie is Groundhog Day, and he is a big fan of James Stewart.

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