Debbie Kidd is on her way to check out the World Poker Tour. Kidd was a participant in a World Poker Tournament Tuesday night that benefited the American Cancer Society. However, Kidd did some major benefiting herself.

With more than 60 players showing up for the poker game, and paying $275 a head, the American Cancer Society did well for themselves, and Kidd won the game. By winning the event, she is now headed to California to play in the WBT celebrity invitational.

Kidd, a part time Panama City Beach resident, played for more than four hours and slowly whittled away the competition. At the end of that time she had brought it down to six and then another half an hour to bring it down to two.

In the end she defeated Tom Frye, a local real estate associate, by having a higher pair than he did. With this win Kidd gets an all expense paid trip to the celebrity invitational in California. There she will get a chance to win her shot at the poker tour’s biggest table – which is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Her winning trip from this poker game is worth more than $25,000, and she can’t wait to try her hand at poker in the big league.

Kidd says that she was shocked to have won. She expected to do well, but not to ultimately win the whole kit and caboodle. She is excited to try her luck at the hundreds of thousands that could be in her future.