Nice Spring break!

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Students are in the moneyTwo return to campus as millionaires after spring breakYou thought your spring break was fun?
Two college students — one from the University of Georgia, one from the University of Minnesota — came back to school with a cool million each in winnings from playing poker.
Mike Schneider was back at Minnesota this week with a story no one could beat. He spent last week on a cruise ship in the Caribbean, winning $1 million at poker.
A soft-spoken journalism student with a good memory and math skills, Schneider, 22, beat out veteran poker players for the top prize in the PartyPoker.com Million tournament, a competition that bills itself as the world’s largest Limit Hold’em contest.
Schneider, from Eagan, Minn., is a regular at the Canterbury Park Card Club and uses poker to pay his way through school.
At University of Georgia, Jeff Williams was back in political science class Monday, but he didn’t slip in unnoticed.
Williams returned with $1 million, as the winner of the European Poker Tour in Monaco. He spent his spring break week at home in Dunwoody, Ga., fielding calls from the media and friends who couldn’t believe the 19-year-old had beat out professional gamblers in the international competition.
Later Monday, he was scheduled to make up a political science midterm exam he missed while in Monaco.
“It was one of the more innovative excuses I’ve heard” for missing a test, instructor Regan Damron said. “I told him initially I would need verification. Of course, that’s rather moot now.”
— From wire reports