poker-players

Ethan Yau

@Global Poker Index Rankings @Ethan Yau

Biography WPT Global ambassador Ethan Yau is one of the absolute titans in the poker vlogging space and has gone from playing $1/$2 to some of the highest stakes games imaginable in just a few years. Yau has found success not just on YouTube, but also on the green felt itself and is a WSOP bracelet winner as well as a two-time WPT Champion. In addition to those titles, he’s found success on the WSOP Circuit and has WSOPC five rings to his name. Yau regularly appears on poker live streams such as Hustler Casino Live and The Lodge Poker Club and took part in the former’s Million Dollar buy-in cash game. Known to the online world as “Rampage Poker”, he earned his fame as a poker vlogger with a channel on YouTube that chronicles his poker ventures worldwide. Echoing other influencers in this niche, like Brad Owen and Andrew Neeme, he offers an insider look into what being a professional poker player entails - revealing both triumphant victories and challenging defeats.

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Ethan Yau

@Global Poker Index Rankings @Ethan Yau

Biography WPT Global ambassador Ethan Yau is one of the absolute titans in the poker vlogging space and has gone from playing $1/$2 to some of the highest stakes games imaginable in just a few years. Yau has found success not just on YouTube, but also on the green felt itself and is a WSOP bracelet winner as well as a two-time WPT Champion. In addition to those titles, he’s found success on the WSOP Circuit and has WSOPC five rings to his name. Yau regularly appears on poker live streams such as Hustler Casino Live and The Lodge Poker Club and took part in the former’s Million Dollar buy-in cash game. Known to the online world as “Rampage Poker”, he earned his fame as a poker vlogger with a channel on YouTube that chronicles his poker ventures worldwide. Echoing other influencers in this niche, like Brad Owen and Andrew Neeme, he offers an insider look into what being a professional poker player entails - revealing both triumphant victories and challenging defeats.

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Ethan Yau

@Global Poker Index Rankings @Ethan Yau

PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2023 PokerStars EPT Barcelona3,000 EPT Mystery Bounty 108th €4,410 2023 RGPS Checkpoint Thunder ValleyMillion Dollar Main Event 31st $5,565 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #18: $2,000 Freezeout Championship 80th $3,772 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #17: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Max Championship 104th $1,685 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #13: $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Championship 6th $80,784 2023 BetMGM Poker Championship$3,500 Main Event 97th $7,256 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #5: $400 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Max 58th $2,118 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #13: $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack 359th $1,052 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #2: $25,000 High Roller (6-Handed)> 23rd $50,000 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure$25,000 PCA High Roller 13th $88,000 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure$3,000 PCA Mystery Bounty 66th $4,050 2022 WSOP OnlineEvent #23: $1,500 NLH 25th $2,449 2022 WSOP OnlineEvent #8: $1,000 NLH 6-Max 35th $3,283 2022 World Series of Poker[Online] $777 Lucky 7’s No-Limit Hold’em Second Chance 163rd $1,282 2022 World Series of Poker[Online] $3,200 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller 8-Max 9th $20,290 2022 World Series of Poker[Online] $7,777 Lucky 7’s No-Limit Hold’em High Roller 22nd $13,946 2022 World Series of Poker[Online] $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Bracelet Championship 112th $1,860 2022 World Series of Poker[Online] $600 Deepstack Championship 243rd $845 2022 MSPT Venetian$1,100 Main Event 198 [$1,500,000 GTD] 129th $3,014 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #16: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 91st $6,428 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #14: $1,500 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 182nd $3,241 2021 MSPT Venetian$1,100 Main Event 1st $230,379 2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #32: $1,000 NLH Championship 80th $1,773 2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #31: $500 NLH Summer Saver 79th $949 2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #24: $400 NLH Monster Stack 153rd $635 2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #22: $600 NLH Knockout 71st $639 2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #14: $500 No-Limit Hold’em 9th $6,387 2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #9: $400 NLH 6-Max 30th $1,928 2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #6: $2,000 NLH Deepstack 26th $4,694 2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #4: $500 NLH Super Turbo 99th $726 2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #2: $600 Monster Stack 96th $953 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #64: $840 Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold’em 175th $1,118 2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #27: $400 No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout 217th $698 2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #26: $500 No-Limit Hold’em Grande Finale 1st $164,494

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Daniel Rezaei

@Global Poker Index Rankings @Ethan Yau

PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2024 PokerStars EPT Paris1,100 FPS Main Event 491st €2,170 2023 WSOP ParadiseEvent #10: $5,000 Main Event Championship 224th $12,100 2023 WSOP ParadiseEvent #11: $800 Flip & Go 76th $1,600 2023 WSOP ParadiseEvent #3: $25,000 GGMillion$ High Rollers Championship 21st $90,700 2023 WSOP ParadiseEvent #1: $1,500 Mystery Millions 122nd $3,690 2023 WSOP EuropeEvent #13: 10,350 Main Event NLH European Championship 60th €24,300 2023 WSOP EuropeEvent #11: 1,100 NLH Turbo Bounty Hunter 28th €1,890 2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus$25,000 NL Hold’em VI 4th $81,800 2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus$1,100 Eureka Main Event 243rd $2,225 2023 PokerStars EPT Barcelona1,100 Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event 847th €2,020 2023 Merit Poker Retro Series$3,300 Main Event 122nd $4,390 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #72: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty 91st $10,856 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #35: $10,000 Secret Bounty 7th $96,265 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #6: $5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha 12th $26,341 2023 Merit Poker Carmen Series$3,300 Main Event 30th $11,660 2022 Mediterranean Poker Party$10,400 MPP High Roller 18th $25,000 2022 Mediterranean Poker Party$5,300 MPP Main Event 118th $12,500 2022 Mediterranean Poker Party$2,200 MPP Warm Up 53rd $7,500 2022 PokerStars EPT Barcelona2,200 Estrellas Poker Tour High Roller 154th €5,090 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #86: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Championship 18th $32,025 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #70: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event World Championship 435th $31,900 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #62: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout 369th $1,502 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #37: $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER No-Limit Hold’em 49th $23,929 2022 Wynn Summer Classic$2,200 Mystery Bounty 127th $6,464 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #27: $1,500 Shootout No-Limit Hold’em 75th $5,835 2022 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo25,000 High Roller 15th €74,050 2022 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo5,300 Main Event 116th €10,410 2022 Wynn Millions$1,600 Mystery Bounty $1,500,000 GTD 116th $3,801 2021 Wynn Winter Classic$5,300 Wynn Winter Classic Main Event 21st $26,491 2021 World Series of Poker EuropeEvent #14: 10,350 WSOPE Main Event 59th €22,154 2021 Wynn Fall Classic$1,600 Mystery Bounty 202nd $3,030 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #65: $1,000 Mini Main Event 184th $3,061 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #64: $5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha 74th $8,070 2021 Wynn Fall Classic$3,500 NLH Championship 37th $24,655 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #35: $500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em 91st $1,362 2021 Wynn Fall Classic$2,200 Mystery Bounty 4th $125,160 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #15: $1,500 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 38th $7,329 2021 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #7: $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER NLH - $1M for 1st Final Day, $5M GTD 470th $2,472 2021 partypoker MILLIONS OnlineMain Event 142nd $10,912 PokerStars WCOOP 2020WCOOP-72-H: $5,200 NLHE 8-Max, Main Event 19t $50,596 2020 WPT World Online ChampionshipsEvent #10: $25,500 High Roller Championship, $5m GTD 5th $259,979 2020 WPT World Online ChampionshipsEvent #9: $3,200 Heads-Up Championship, $500k GTD 32nd $5,000 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #83: $10K WSOP Super MILLION$, $5M GTD 25th $42,189 2020 WPT World Online ChampionshipsEvent #6: $3,200 Mix-Max Championship, $3m GTD 26th $15,300 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #63: $500 Mini Main Event, $5M GTD 1034th $1,650 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #59: $2,500 Double Stack No Limit Hold’em 10th $22,946 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #48: $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER, $5M GTD, $1M to 1st 566th $2,459 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #45: $840 Bounty No Limit Hold’em 271st $923 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #41: $400 COLOSSUS Day 2, $3M GTD 834th $1,216 2020 PokerStars Stadium SeriesStadium Series Freezeout Weekly Final - High: $1,050 NLHE 8-Max, $1.5M Gtd 9th $18,128 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #34: $525 Super Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold’em 6-Handed 80th $866 PokerStars SCOOP 2020SCOOP-44-H: $5,200 NLHE Sunday HR SE, $1M Gtd 22nd $14,823 2019 World Series of Poker EuropeEvent #14: 10,350 Main Event No-Limit Hold’em 10th €76,432 2019 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS EuropeMain Event 39th €25,000 2019 World Series of PokerEvent #84: The Closer - $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em 161st $3,500 2019 World Series of PokerEvent #75: $1,000+111 Little One for One Drop No-Limit Hold’em 807th $1,586 2019 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Vegas @ Aria$10,300 Main Event 41st $30,000 2018 World Series of Poker EuropeEvent #7: 2,200 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed 9th €7,042 2018 World Series of Poker EuropeEvent #2: 1,650 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Deepstack 21st €3,094 2018 World Series of Poker EuropeEvent #1: 550 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold’em 267th €1,285 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS UK1,100 Open 6th £25,000 2017 partypoker LIVE Grand Prix AustriaMain Event 281st €300

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Mikita Badziakouski

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Biography Mikita Badziakouski is a Belarussian poker player and WSOP bracelet winner with over $31 million in lifetime earnings (Jan. 2022). He was also a partypoker Ambassador from 2019-2022, and is known as the 2023 WPT Big One for One Drop $1 million buy-in winner ($7,114,500). Poker Achievements Badziakouski’s first live tournament cashes came in Ukraine in the early 2010s, with his first six-figure score coming at EPT Monte Carlo in 2016. He finished sixth in the 50,000 High Roller. More High Roller success would come in Malta, Macau and Prague before winning the $50,000 Shot Clock at the 2017 Aussie Millions. Later that year, he would secure his first seven-figure cash after finishing third in the WSOPE High Roller for One Drop. After High Roller success at the APPT Macau Poker Cup in 2018, he followed that up with victory in the Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro Main Event for just under $2.5 million. Then, two months later he won the Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju Main Event for $5.2 million. EPT Barcelona would see Badziakouski win another $1.9 million in the 100,000 Super High Roller, before a Short Deck side event victory at the WSOP Europe - along with two fourth place finishes in High Roller bracelet events for over $1.2 million. The following year, Badziakouski continued his High Roller success in Monte Carlo, Montenegro, and then in Las Vegas where he won three Aria Summer High Rollers. When live poker resumed in 2021, Badziakouski competed in the Super High Roller Series Europe and the Poker Masters, before winning his first WSOP bracelet in Event #85: $50,000 High Roller for $1,462,043. In December 2023, the Belarus native cracked the $50 million lifetime mark on The Hendon Mob when he defeated 17 players at Wynn Las Vegas in the WPT Big One for One Drop, a $1 million buy-in tournament. When he outlasted Mario Mosboeck heads-up to close it out, he collected $7,114,500 for his efforts.

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Mikita Badziakouski

@Global Poker Index Rankings @Ethan Yau

Biography Mikita Badziakouski is a Belarussian poker player and WSOP bracelet winner with over $31 million in lifetime earnings (Jan. 2022). He was also a partypoker Ambassador from 2019-2022, and is known as the 2023 WPT Big One for One Drop $1 million buy-in winner ($7,114,500). Poker Achievements Badziakouski’s first live tournament cashes came in Ukraine in the early 2010s, with his first six-figure score coming at EPT Monte Carlo in 2016. He finished sixth in the 50,000 High Roller. More High Roller success would come in Malta, Macau and Prague before winning the $50,000 Shot Clock at the 2017 Aussie Millions. Later that year, he would secure his first seven-figure cash after finishing third in the WSOPE High Roller for One Drop. After High Roller success at the APPT Macau Poker Cup in 2018, he followed that up with victory in the Triton Super High Roller Series Montenegro Main Event for just under $2.5 million. Then, two months later he won the Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju Main Event for $5.2 million. EPT Barcelona would see Badziakouski win another $1.9 million in the 100,000 Super High Roller, before a Short Deck side event victory at the WSOP Europe - along with two fourth place finishes in High Roller bracelet events for over $1.2 million. The following year, Badziakouski continued his High Roller success in Monte Carlo, Montenegro, and then in Las Vegas where he won three Aria Summer High Rollers. When live poker resumed in 2021, Badziakouski competed in the Super High Roller Series Europe and the Poker Masters, before winning his first WSOP bracelet in Event #85: $50,000 High Roller for $1,462,043. In December 2023, the Belarus native cracked the $50 million lifetime mark on The Hendon Mob when he defeated 17 players at Wynn Las Vegas in the WPT Big One for One Drop, a $1 million buy-in tournament. When he outlasted Mario Mosboeck heads-up to close it out, he collected $7,114,500 for his efforts.

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Arthur Morris

@Global Poker Index Rankings @Ethan Yau

PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #62: $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha 159th $3,328 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #50: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship 2nd $809,167 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #73: $1,500 Razz 49th $2,639 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #68: $1,000 Million Dollar Bounty 758th $2,070 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #39: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed 51st $6,909 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #33: $3,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 125th $6,004 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #51: $3,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 50th $8,153 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #45: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship 7th $93,406 2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #4: $500 NLH Super Turbo 44th $1,453 2020 World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw Durant$1,700 Main Event 49th $4,334 2019 World Series of PokerEvent #78: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty 87th $1,815 2019 World Series of PokerEvent #64: $888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold’em 241st $5,106 2019 World Series of PokerEvent #43: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet 4th $34,328 2019 World Series of PokerEvent #34: $1,000 Double Stack No-Limit Hold’em 541st $1,975 2018 World Series of PokerEvent #62: $888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed - $888,888 Guaranteed 1st Place 122nd $6,075 2018 World Series of PokerEvent #58: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed 7th $61,931 2018 World Series of PokerEvent #51: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Bounty 29th $6,952 2018 World Series of PokerEvent #39: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout 39th $5,227 2018 World Series of PokerEvent #26: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 10th $9,435 2017 World Series of PokerEvent #19: THE GIANT - $365 No-Limit Hold’em 1187th $595 2017 World Series of PokerEvent #66: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em 104th $3,213 2017 World Series of PokerEvent #60: $888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed 700th $1,719 2017 World Series of PokerEvent #46: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better 95th $2,338 2014 World Series of PokerEvent #65: $10,000 Main Event 344th $33,734 2014 WinStar River Poker SeriesMain Event 119th $4,605 2014 World Series of PokerEvent #51: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Monster Stack 628th $3,502 2014 World Series of PokerEvent #47: $1,500 Ante-Only No-Limit Hold’em 15th $10,140 2014 World Series of PokerEvent #41: $1,500 Six-Handed Dealer’s Choice 8th $13,411 2013 World Series of PokerEvent #44: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 29th $14,954 2012 WinStar River Poker SeriesMain Event 82nd $4,517 2012 World Series of PokerEvent 54: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em 163rd $2,667 2012 World Series of PokerEvent 9: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Re-Entry 36th $18,427 2011 World Series of PokerEvent #10: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed 92nd $4,147

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poker-players

Kristen Foxen

@Global Poker Index Rankings @Ethan Yau

Biography Kristen Bicknell is a Canadian poker player and former partypoker Ambassador. She has cashed for over $5.3 million during her career. She was the GPI Female Player of the Year for three years in a row (2017-19). Bicknell at the WSOP Bicknell is a four-time WSOP bracelet winner, having won the 2013 WSOP Ladies Event for $173,922 and the 2016 $1,500 Bounty Event for $290,768. Read More: Two-time Champion Kristen Bicknell Reminisces on her WSOP Memories In 2020, after coronavirus forced the WSOP online, she won her third WSOP bracelet in Event #44: $2,500 NLHE 6-Handed for $356,412. In 2023, she captured her second online bracelet on WSOP.com.

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Kristen Foxen

@Global Poker Index Rankings @Ethan Yau

Biography Kristen Bicknell is a Canadian poker player and former partypoker Ambassador. She has cashed for over $5.3 million during her career. She was the GPI Female Player of the Year for three years in a row (2017-19). Bicknell at the WSOP Bicknell is a four-time WSOP bracelet winner, having won the 2013 WSOP Ladies Event for $173,922 and the 2016 $1,500 Bounty Event for $290,768. Read More: Two-time Champion Kristen Bicknell Reminisces on her WSOP Memories In 2020, after coronavirus forced the WSOP online, she won her third WSOP bracelet in Event #44: $2,500 NLHE 6-Handed for $356,412. In 2023, she captured her second online bracelet on WSOP.com.

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Kristen Foxen

@Global Poker Index Rankings @Ethan Yau

Biography Kristen Bicknell is a Canadian poker player and former partypoker Ambassador. She has cashed for over $5.3 million during her career. She was the GPI Female Player of the Year for three years in a row (2017-19). Bicknell at the WSOP Bicknell is a four-time WSOP bracelet winner, having won the 2013 WSOP Ladies Event for $173,922 and the 2016 $1,500 Bounty Event for $290,768. Read More: Two-time Champion Kristen Bicknell Reminisces on her WSOP Memories In 2020, after coronavirus forced the WSOP online, she won her third WSOP bracelet in Event #44: $2,500 NLHE 6-Handed for $356,412. In 2023, she captured her second online bracelet on WSOP.com.

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Juan Pardo

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Biography Juan Pardo is a Spanish poker player with over $4.5 million in career earnings. Pardo is no stranger to success at the poker tables, winning numerous high roller titles over the course of his career including two Single-Day High Roller in the space of 12 hours at EPT Barcelona in 2019, the second of which being the largest cash of his career for 1,013,860. Five Spanish Poker Players to Watch in 2022 In 2022, he won the EPT London 10,200 Mystery Bounty for 80,280, and just missed out on a second title after finishing second in the EPT London Super High Roller for 425,680.

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Santhosh Suvarna

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Biography Santhosh Suvarna is a successful businessman with a penchant for high-stakes poker tournaments. Suvarna has amassed over $7 million in live cashes, with most of that impressive sum coming from events played from 2022 onwards. Suvarna lives in Bangalore, India, and his first four live results were from tournaments hosted in his native India. The largest score was the equivalent of $8,839 back in 2020. However, since 2022, Suvarna has become a familiar face in the world’s biggest buy-in events worldwide. An eighth-place finish in a $75,000 buy-in Triton Poker Super High Roller Series event in Cyprus in September 2022 netted Suravana $245,000. That princely sum remained a career-high for only seven months because Suvarna finished fourth in another $75,000 buy-in Triton event, this time in Vietnam, which earned him $628,000. Suvarna was back in Cyprus two months later, where he cashed in five high roller events, including winning the $25,000 GG Super Million$ Live for $700,000. Several more six-figure hauls followed before Suvarna enjoyed his first seven-figure score. He finished third in a $125,000 buy-in Triton Super High Roller Series event in Monte-Carlo and saw his bankroll swell by $1,772,000. In December of 2023, Suvarna entered the $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop during the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas, although he failed to reach the money places. Suvarna captured his first European Poker Tour title at the PokerStars EPT Paris festival in February 2024. He came out on top in the final 25,000 No Limit Hold’em Event of the series, and took home 348,860 for his efforts. At his current pace, Suvarna will be the biggest live poker tournament winner from India in a matter of months.

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Santhosh Suvarna

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Biography Santhosh Suvarna is a successful businessman with a penchant for high-stakes poker tournaments. Suvarna has amassed over $7 million in live cashes, with most of that impressive sum coming from events played from 2022 onwards. Suvarna lives in Bangalore, India, and his first four live results were from tournaments hosted in his native India. The largest score was the equivalent of $8,839 back in 2020. However, since 2022, Suvarna has become a familiar face in the world’s biggest buy-in events worldwide. An eighth-place finish in a $75,000 buy-in Triton Poker Super High Roller Series event in Cyprus in September 2022 netted Suravana $245,000. That princely sum remained a career-high for only seven months because Suvarna finished fourth in another $75,000 buy-in Triton event, this time in Vietnam, which earned him $628,000. Suvarna was back in Cyprus two months later, where he cashed in five high roller events, including winning the $25,000 GG Super Million$ Live for $700,000. Several more six-figure hauls followed before Suvarna enjoyed his first seven-figure score. He finished third in a $125,000 buy-in Triton Super High Roller Series event in Monte-Carlo and saw his bankroll swell by $1,772,000. In December of 2023, Suvarna entered the $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop during the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas, although he failed to reach the money places. Suvarna captured his first European Poker Tour title at the PokerStars EPT Paris festival in February 2024. He came out on top in the final 25,000 No Limit Hold’em Event of the series, and took home 348,860 for his efforts. At his current pace, Suvarna will be the biggest live poker tournament winner from India in a matter of months.

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poker-players

Farid Jattin

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Biography Farid Jattin is a Colombian poker player with over $7 million in career earnings. The largest cash of his career came in 2019, when he finished seventh in the inaugural PSPC Players Championship in the Bahamas for $746,000. However, Jattin has an impressive resume with numerous high-profile tournament victories including the 2019 Potomac Poker Open Main Event In 2020, he won the $25,000 Challenge at the Aussie Millions, chopping heads-up with his poker coach George Wolff. The following month he won the partypoker MILLIONS South America $10,300 High Roller for $200,000. However, 2022 was a stellar year for Jattin. He started it off with victory at the 2022 Lucky Hearts Poker Open Event for $306,832 and then added a Venetian March DeepStack Showdown title for $272,357. Jattin was looking to win his first WSOP bracelet, but despite holding a 6:1 heads-up chip lead in Event #87: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em, he would succumb to Michael Wang and have to settle for second place and $334,747.

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Timothy Adams

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Biography Timothy Adams is a Canadian professional poker player hailing from Burlington, Ontario. Adams focuses primarily on poker tournaments and currently occupies second place in the Canadian all-time money list, trailing only the legendary Daniel Negreanu. Adams is the model professional poker player who goes about his business in a quiet yet deadly efficient manner. He began his poker tournament career playing low-stakes tournaments and his continued success allowed him to build a bankroll and climb up the game’s stakes. The Canadian’s first recorded live cash came in May 2007 when he finished fifth in a $340 buy-in tournament in the United States for $3,765. These days, it is not uncommon to discover Adams competing in $250,000 buy-in tournaments. Adams’ first six-figure prize came in July 2012 when he finished seventh in a $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Handed event at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). His first score in excess of $500,000 came in August 2016 when Adams was the third-place finisher in the 50,000 Super High Roller at EPT Barcelona; he won 597,500 ($676,915). The first of Adams’ five seven-figure scores came in March 2019 when he won a Triton Poker Super High Roller Series event in Jeju, South Korea for HK$27,760,500 ($3,536,550). Adams followed up that impressive result with a victory in the A$250,000 Super High Roller Bowl Australia for A$2,160,000 ($1,446,112) at the 2020 Aussie Millions. Adams has a single WSOP bracelet to his name, which he won in 2012. He came out on top in the $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em Four-Handed event and secured a $392,476 prize in additon to a gold WSOP bracelet.

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Jonathan Jaffe

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Biography Originally from Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Jonathan Jaffe has more than $5.6 million in lifetime earnings as of summer 2022 according to The Hendon Mob. That includes a career-best $670,636 for finishing runner-up to Jonathan Little in the 2008 World Poker Tour (WPT) World Poker Finals at Foxwoods. Jaffe, who once pranked ESPN by claiming to be a dolphin trainer on a World Series of Poker (WSOP) broadcast, also won the 2022 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open $25,500 High Roller for $574,085, and in January 2018 took second in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) $25,000 High Roller for $569,760.

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poker-players

Nick Pupillo

@Global Poker Index Rankings @Ethan Yau

PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #87: $2,500 Mixed Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better 3rd $94,681 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #58: $3,000 Limit Hold’em (6-Handed) 3rd $72,681 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #52: $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw 1st $181,978 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #44: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 201st $5,253 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #37: $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em 144th $4,346 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship 6th $62,255 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #5: $400 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Max 79th $1,853 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #5: $1,500 Dealer’s Choice (6-Handed) 11th $7,842 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #1: $333 No-Limit Hold’em Triple Treys Summer Tip Off 32nd $1,904 The Return - A Borgata Championship Event$2,100 Bounty Event 46th $1,940 2022 MSPT Venetian November$1,600 Main Event 4th $75,017 2022 MSPT Venetian November$1,100 Main Event 48th $2,450 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #46: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 55th $11,991 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #26: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship 10th $18,506 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #13: $1,500 Limit Hold’em 8th $13,789 2022 World Series of PokerOnline No-Limit Hold’em BIG $500 104th $1,118 2022 World Series of PokerOnline $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Freezeout 21st $8,720 2022 The Lodge Championship SeriesEvent #15: $1,000 NLH Turbo 2nd $19,478 2021 MSPT South Dakota State Poker Championship$1,100 Main Event 16th $5,675 MSPT Riverside CasinoMSPT Riverside $1,100 Main Event 6th $31,716 2021 Wynn Spring ClassicWynn Spring Classic $1M GTD Championship 50th $9,067 2020 Mid-States Poker Tour Venetian $1,100 Main EventMSPT Venetian $1,100 Main Event 13th $10,566 2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #24: $400 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed 329th $694 2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #12: $500 The BIG 500 No-Limit Hold’em 19th $5,242 2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #11: $500 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo Deepstack 6-Handed 52nd $2,207 2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #10: $600 No-Limit Hold’em MonsterStack 8th $18,367 2020 World Series of Poker Circuit Rio Las Vegas$2,200 High Roller 2nd $55,085 2020 Aussie MillionsA$10,600 Main Event 8th 178,080 AUD 2019 Wynn Winter Classic$5,300 Championship Event 53rd $13,211 2019 MSPT Wisconsin State Poker Championship$1,100 Main Event 17th $6,387 2019 World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw Durant$1,700 Main Event 50th $4,089 2019 World Series of Poker Circuit Harveys Lake Tahoe$1,700 Main Event 7th $19,182 2019 MSPT Michigan State Poker Championship$1,100 Main Event 68th $3,443 2019 World Series of Poker Circuit Horseshoe Southern Indiana$1,700 Main Event 4th $38,145 Heartland Poker Tour Golden Gates$1,650 Main Event 13th $7,733 2019 Borgata Poker OpenWPT Borgata Poker Open $3,500 Championship 7th $100,657 2019 Heartland Poker Tour Ameristar East ChicagoMain Event 53rd $3,238 August 2019 Colorado Poker Championship$1,100 Main Event 23rd $2,881 2019 Hollywood St. LouisMain Event 2nd $98,195 2019 World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw DurantMain Event 73rd $3,101 2019 Heartland Poker Tour Golden Gates CasinoMain Event 7th $19,810 2019 World Series of PokerEvent #69: $1,000 Mini Main Event 155th $4,108 2019 Heartland Poker Tour East ChicagoMain Event 16th $7,192 2019 PokerStars and Monte-CarloCasino EPT1,100 No-Limit Hold’em 4th €16,110 2019 Heartland Poker Tour Golden GatesMain Event 1st $194,478 2018 World Series of PokerEvent #20: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 20th $14,572 2015 Mid-States Poker Tour FireKeepers CasinoMain Event 21st $2,974 2015 Mid-States Poker Tour TropicanaMain Event 6th $12,099 Hollywood Poker Open Season 3 Columbus Regional Main EventRegional Main Event 2nd $43,512 2015 Mid-States Poker Tour FireKeepers CasinoMain Event 6th $27,031 2015 Mid-States Poker Tour Golden Gates CasinoMain Event 6th $18,845 Hollywood Poker Open Season 3 Toledo Regional Main EventRegional Main Event 23rd $3,168 2014 Mid-States Poker Tour Canterbury ParkMain Event 21st $2,584 2014 Mid-States Poker Tour Meskwaki CasinoMain Event 41st $2,054 2014 Mid-States Poker Tour FireKeepers CasinoMain Event 5th $28,000 2014 Mid-States Poker Tour Ho-Chunk Gaming Wisconsin DellsMain Event 5th $19,805

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Josh Arieh

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Biography Josh Arieh is an American poker player and five-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner. He can be seen on the first season of GGPoker’sGame of Gold, a poker reality competition on the GGPoker YouTube channel. In 2021, he won the WSOP Player of the Year title after cashing eleven times and winning two bracelets for combined cashes of over $1.1 million. Poker Achievements Arieh’s first recorded cash was a bracelet at the 1999 World Series of Poker, winning a $3,000 Limit Hold’em event for $202,800. He followed that up one year later by almost winning another bracelet, but came up just short finishing second in a $1,570 Pot-Limit Omaha event. The largest cash of Arieh’s career came in 2004, when he finished third behind Greg Raymer and David Williams in the 2004 WSOP Main Event. He took home $2,500,000 in winnings. His second bracelet came the following year in a $2,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event for $381,600. In 2009, Arieh finished second in the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic for $952,290. Arieh would cash at the WSOP on numerous occasions during the 2010s, making several final tables but falling just short of picking up another title. A second-place finish in the 2019 $50,000 Poker Players Championship proved that he was a player to contend for major honours once again, and when the WSOP returned in 2021 he quickly showed that was to be the case. He picked up two bracelets and won the Player of the Year title, pipping Phil Hellmuth into second place. “Its just really cool, its weird,” Arieh told PokerNews about his run to WSOP Player of the Year. “My whole life and my career, whatever I do, I build momentum, so when Im going good, Im really good. When Im going bad, I go really bad. It means a lot because my daughters will be really proud.” His third bracelet came in Event #39: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha, with his fourth coming less than two weeks later in Event #66: $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Championship. In 2023, Arieh picked up a fifth bracelet with a comeback win in the $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship. The victory was a big step towards Hall of Fame consideration for Arieh. “So this is just another step that will give me a chance to maybe be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Poker players were looked at as these backroom hustlers. Like, oh, you’re a poker player, you’re a bad person. You gamble for a living; how do you do that? I’ve said it before; it just gives it a little validity. And to be thought about, the names of people that are one, it would just be insane.” He followed this up with an appearance on the first season of Game of Gold in November of the same year.

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Brian Altman

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Biography Brian Altman is an American poker player. He is a three-time World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event champion. He has also won three WSOP Circuit rings, most recently in February 2022. In June 2022, he won his first WSOP bracelet in the $400 NLHE Online Event for $110,662. Altman started playing poker in high school after watching Chris Moneymaker win the WSOP Main Event. His first WPT title came in 2015 winning the Lucky Hearts Poker Open for $723,000. Three years later he won the tournament again, becoming the first player to win the same WPT Main Event twice. His third title came 18 months later, winning the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Main Event. He was the seventh player to win three WPT titles. He also was named Season 18 WPT Player of the Year.

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Erik Seidel

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Biography Erik Seidel is one of the winningest and best known players in poker history. He is the remaining member of poker’s old generation, but is still able to compete in the modern field collecting poker’s major titles and trophies. Intro Erik Seidel is one of the most recognized faces in poker. With more than $40 million in career winnings, nine World Series of Poker bracelets and one World Poker Tour title, numerous money finishes in all of the world’s major poker tournaments and a place in the Poker Hall of Fame, Seidel is nothing but one of poker’s living legends. Read More: Before the Game: Erik Seidel the Trader (Part One)

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Erik Seidel

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Biography Erik Seidel is one of the winningest and best known players in poker history. He is the remaining member of poker’s old generation, but is still able to compete in the modern field collecting poker’s major titles and trophies. Intro Erik Seidel is one of the most recognized faces in poker. With more than $40 million in career winnings, nine World Series of Poker bracelets and one World Poker Tour title, numerous money finishes in all of the world’s major poker tournaments and a place in the Poker Hall of Fame, Seidel is nothing but one of poker’s living legends. Read More: Before the Game: Erik Seidel the Trader (Part One)

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Mike Watson

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Biography Mike Watson is a Canadian poker player and two-time European Poker Tour (EPT) champion with over $20 million in live tournament earnings. “SirWatts” won his maiden EPT Main Event title in 2016 by taking down the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event for $728,325. Seven years later, Watson won the 2023 EPT Monte Carlo Main Event for $825,731 to become just the third player in poker history to earn live EPT Main Event titles. “It’s an amazing accomplishment,” Watson said after the victory. “You know, winning two main events on the same tour is really hard. And yeah, I just feel really lucky that I was able to pull it off today.” Read More: Mike Watson Becomes Third Player in History to Win Two Live EPT Main Event Titles Watson’s success is far from limited to the European Poker Tour. In 2008, Watson received his biggest career cash and a World Poker Tour (WPT) title by taking down the $15,000 WPT Bellagio Cup IV for $1.7 million. A few years later, Watson took down the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Cannes 50,000 Majestic Roller for $1.3 million. The Canadian has had plenty of other big scores on the high roller circuit, having won a 50,000 High Rollerat 2022 EPT Barcelona for $895,933 and a 2023 Triton Super High Roller Series Vietnam $50,000 Short Deck event for $695,000.

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Alexandre Reard

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Biography Alexandre Reard is a French poker player and Unibet Poker Ambassador. His also a World Series of Poker bracelet-winner. In 2021, he won Event #47: $5,000 Freezeout NLH, defeating Daniel Strelitz heads-up to take home $428,694. “When I saw the river card, it was just an indescribable feeling,” Reard said after the victory. “I was seeing my wife and all my friends crying and exulting on the rail. It’s such a sincere and strong moment!”. The result was the largest of Reard’s career, topping his 2019 EPT Prague National victory that netted him 342,810. 2019 was a good year for Reard, as he finished runner-up in the Unibet Open Sinaia High Roller before winning his second WSOP Circuit ring in Rotterdam later that year.

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Yiannis Liperis

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Biography Yiannis Liperis is a Cypriot poker player with over $2 million in career earnings. He is number one on the Cypriot All Time Money List. The largest cash of his career came in 2019, finished 13th in the PokerStars Players Championship for $261,750. In 2022, he finished fourth in the $5,300 Luxon Pay Mediterranean Poker Party Main Event for $230,000. A regular on the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, Liperis won GUKPT Blackpool in 2018 and has four other top-four finishes (2nd - Blackpool 2015 & Luton 2018, 3rd - Manchester 2021, 4th - Walsall 2017)

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