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An eight-year-old girl in Texas has become the world's youngest poker player, reported The Sun.

At the age of four, Alexa Fisher could shuffle a pack of playing cards,and at five play No-Limit Texas Hold'em. She is now being hailed as achild prodigy and tipped to win millions when she is old enough to playfor big money.

Two troublesome toddlers have become internet stars with their antics,said the Mirror. A video on YouTube of the brothers wrecking their homewith a bag of flour has racked up nearly 700,000 hits on the internet infive days. However, some viewers have suggested the incident, which wasposted by the boys' mother, was staged.

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