Date of birth: 1957
Birthplace: Guangzhou, China
Residence: Las Vegas, Nevada
Lists: 10 WSOP bracelets, cash game player
Nickname: Oriental Express
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Name: Johnny Chan Date of birth: 1957 Birthplace: Guangzhou, China Residence: Las Vegas, Nevada Lists: 10 WSOP bracelets, cash game player Nickname: Oriental Express |
Johnny Chan is one of the legends of poker. During the height of his fame in the late 80s, he was the only possible embodiment of the professional poker player who seemed almost unbeatable. The film Rounders, the reference for fans of poker, has made a beautiful tribute to Johnny Chan in the show as the unbeatable champion. He will also appeared in the film and see his last hand of the WSOP in 1988 played against Erik Seidel
Johnny Chan is a professional poker player who surprisingly given his name, spends most of his time playing cash game where he wins regularly fortunes
Gains tournaments still amounted to $ 6,500,000 making it the 18th largest in the world of players who earned the most money in tournaments
Johnny Chan landed in the USA at the age of 5 years with his family in Phoenix and Houston, where his family holds restaurants. A 16 Johnny Chan went to Las Vegas before dropping his studies at age 21 to become manager of hotel and restaurant, and moved permanently to Las Vegas where he became a professional poker player.
Johnny Chan has his own online poker room and writes regularly in the bi-monthly Trader Monthly
Johnny Chan is part of the Poker Hall Of Fame
Johnny Chan has 10 WSOP bracelets, including 2 titles of world champions, making it the 2nd place tie with Doyle Brunson. Only Phil Hellmuth's 11 bracelets and done better than him. But Johnny Chan made a special performance at the World Series Of Poker by winning successively the title in 1987 and 1988 and then fail to 2nd place in 1989 precisely to face Phil Hellmuth! It would have been able to achieve incredible performance to win the title of the WSOP Main Event 3 times. He is the last player to win the title 2 WSOP and given the size of fields we can estimate today that the performance will never be reprinted. Johnny Chan was the first of 3 players to win the 10th WSOP title For the story Johnny Chan has an orange near him, a habit he kept when he was allowed to smoke in casinos. After his victory in the WSOP players have started to come up with various fruits to bring them luck
| 2005 : $2,500 Pot Limit Hold'em | $303,025 |
| 2003 : $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha | $158,100 |
| 2003 : $5,000 No Limit Hold'em | $224,400 |
| 2002 : $2,500 No Limit Hold'em Gold Bracelet | $34,000 |
| 2000 : $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha | $178,800 |
| 1997 : $5,000 Deuce to Seven Draw | $164,250 |
| 1994 : $1,500 Seven Card Stud | $135,600 |
| 1988 : $10,000 No Limit Hold'em World Championship | $700,000 |
| 1987 : $10,000 No Limit Hold'em World Championship | $625,000 |
| 1985 : $1,000 Limit Hold'em | $171,000 |