Peter Costa
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"Peter Costa" to Greek Cypriot parents is a United Kingdom/British professional poker player based in Las Vegas, Nevada/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 four final tables at the World Series of Poker (WSOP):

* 2002 World Series of Poker/2002 $2,000 betting (poker)/limit Texas hold 'em - 9th place ($17,200)

* 2003 World Series of Poker/2003 $2,500 seven-card stud - 9th place ($3,600)

* 2005 World Series of Poker/2005 $1,500 limit Texas hold 'em - 7th place ($57,905)

* 2006 World Series of Poker/2006 $3,000 Omaha hold 'em/Omaha hi/lo - 7th place ($38,861)

Costa was nominated for both the 2002 and 2003 European Poker Player of the Year awards. In addition, Costa won the Crown Australian Poker Championship/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 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,700,000.

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We believe the stock sold off yesterday on sector rotation, but we would be aggressive buyers of the stock at these levels, considering the strong fundamentals and attractive valuation.

It was pretty panicked this morning, but as the day wore on some bottom-fishers stepped in. Probably what you're going to see next week is the same as this week. It's gonna be that way for a few weeks until we start to see some earnings or get some good news.

Emotionally, there was a sense this week of people wanting to get home and be with their families. In terms of trading there was not a lot going on and the volume was really low. I think you'll start to see some money coming back in when earnings get started ... and when there is some progress with the Middle East.

It's a close quarter in earnings given that people expect to beat consensus, you could argue it wasn't the best quarter they've had.

They're pretty much in line with what you would expect to see at this point in time. The individual sign-ups are still yet to come in a significant way, and I think that's what people are waiting to see.

It's a delayed rally.

The Yahoo! news is positive, but I don't know how much it's going to weigh on the market.

It was a good quarter for them. They came in well ahead, ... They did it by keeping control of their medical costs. Aetna's medical cost trend moved higher whereas Cigna was able to keep it in control.