Hobbies: Golf and Travel
Favorite Movie: Manchurian Candidate
Favorite Music: Any Streisand song
Favorite Place in the world: My home
Favorite Celebrity: Harry Truman
Major Poker Accomplishments:
- Won 51 major tournaments - $500 buy-in or more
- Won many $100 to $500 tournaments
- 3rd all-time money winner at World Series of Poker ($2,992,841)
- Four times in the top 5 at $10,000 NLH at WSOP (two 2nds, one 3rd, one 5th)
- Four WSOP bracelets and is the only player ever to win a bracelet for all 3 kinds of Omaha: Omaha high-low, Omaha high, and Pot-Limit Omaha.
- Four Hall of Fame watches
- Won $10,000 No Limit Holdem Tournament at the Diamond Jim Brady (Bicycle Club) three years straight (1990, 1991, 1992)
- Won 2 Pot Limit Omaha Tournaments 2002
- Won 3 Pot Limit Hold'em Tournaments 2003
- Tournament Player of the Year, 1998 and 2002
- Have won at least one title in all the following venues:
- No Limit Holdem (24 wins)
- Pot Limit Holdem (4 wins)
- Limit Holdem (7 wins)
- Seven Card Stud (2 wins)
- Seven Stud Eight or Better (1 win)
- Omaha Pot Limit (3 wins)
- Omaha Limit High (2 wins)
- Omaha Eight or Better (4 wins)
- Duece to Seven No Limit Lowball (1 win)
- Ace to Five Limit Lowball (1 win)
- Chinese Poker (2 wins)
- Co-author of three poker books:
- Championship No Limit and Pot Limit Holdem
- Championship Omaha Pot Limit, Limit, 8 or Better
- Championship Holdem - Limit
Most respected poker players: Chip Reese, Erik Seidel, Ben Roberts and Surrindar Sunar.
If you could change anything in the world, what would it be?
Everyone would get along with every other one.
If you could change anything in the poker world, what would it be?
Bar all bad actors at the table. |
Date of Birth: 10/13/39