 Poker winner's former wife takes her cut from winnings
By Megan Woolhouse, Globe Staff | May 15, 2005
Kevin Cantwell of Shrewsbury lost his poker face in the days after winning $640,000 in the New England Poker Classic finals at Foxwoods Resort Casino. And it cost him.
The unemployed construction worker posed for newspaper photos with his winnings and conducted interviews with reporters, including one from this newspaper, saying, ''There's always some luck involved" in winning a game of Texas Hold 'Em.
But he never offered to share his good luck with his former wife, to whom he owed $54,000 in child support payments.
When Deborah L. Hays heard of his windfall through friends, she called a lawyer. Marie B. McGuirk of Northborough filed a motion in Worcester Probate and Family Court asking for repayment. McGuirk said the couple had been married for about 10 years when they divorced in 1985. Cantwell stopped paying child support in 1998, McGuirk said.
Within a week of the court filing, Cantwell sent his ex-wife a check for the full amount.
MEGAN WOOLHOUSE
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