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Chiu regularly plays World Poker Tour (WPT) events and has made two WPT final tables. At the Season 1 WPT Invitational event in 2003, he finished 3rd behind Layne Flack and Jerry Buss . In April 2008, Chiu won the Season 6 WPT Championship, overcoming Gus Hansen 's more than 6:1 chip lead at the beginning of heads-up play to claim the title and ...
World Poker Tour; Title(s) ... Robert Edward Stupak (April 6, 1942 – September 25, 2009) was an entrepreneur who became a Las Vegas casino developer and owner.
Bechtel began playing poker as a recreational player near his home in Arizona while working as a cotton farmer. He cashed for the first time in the World Series of Poker, coming close to winning a WSOP bracelet in 1979 when he finished runner-up to Perry Green in a $1,500 no limit Texas hold 'em event.
The 1991 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe from April 26 to May 13, 1991. The 1991 World Series featured a then-record 18 bracelet events. Events
Bob Ciaffone (December 10, 1940 – May 13, 2022) [1] was an American poker player, author of Robert's Rules of Poker. Ciaffone finished third in the 1987 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 no limit Texas hold 'em main event, winning $125,000. [2] In that same year, he finished fourth in the WSOP $2,500 pot limit Omaha hold 'em event. [3]
Launched in April, 2021, the PokerGO Tour was created for poker players that played in high roller poker tournaments around the world. The top three finishers would share in $175,000 in prize money, and when residential mortgage company Guaranteed Rate was announced as the presenting sponsor in September, the prize money was increased to $350,000, awarded as: $200,000 and the Guaranteed Rate ...
He has been a key part of a consortium of poker players who pooled their money together to play Texas billionaire Andy Beal in a series of very high limit, heads-up, Texas hold 'em games, with limits ranging anywhere from $20,000/$40,000 to $100,000/$200,000.
The Eureka Poker Tour (EKA) started in March 2011, is a major regional poker tour in the central and eastern Europe. The tour is sponsored by PokerStars.com , like its counterparts, the European Poker Tour (2004), Asia Pacific Poker Tour (2007), Latin American Poker Tour (2008) and North American Poker Tour (2010).