Johnny Chan
Chan became a professional poker player after he moved to Las Vegas from Houston. Chan is originally from Canton in China, but his family moved to the U.S for a better chance at a good life. It was in Houston that they lived and worked until Chan was 21. He dropped out of school and came to live in Las Vegas where he remains to this day.
Chan has actually inspired poker hands in movies! The hand he played in the final of the WSOP in 1988 is featured as the main event in the Hollywood movie ‘Rounders’. Chan has also won the World Series of Poker in 1987, making him a winner twice in two years!
Chan to this date has an incredible 10 WSOP bracelets and is tied with Doyle Brunson for the player with the most WSOP bracelets. His winnings at the moment are over a massive amount of $4 million! This figure will be set to rise as he continues to this day to play and win in many poker competitions.
Chan loves to intimidate people at the same poker table. He feels it improves and psyches out the other players perfectly. As he is one of the poker circuits’ most legendary players; you would have thought that was intimidation enough!
Here’s a couple of videos of him! Here he iswith a huge laydown:-
And this is the clip of Johnny Chan in action that is immortalised in the file rounders:-
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Tony ‘G’ Guogo
Tony Guogo known as Tony G is a nice guy off the poker table and a monster on it. A self described Jekyll and Hyde, he figuratively eats players alive when he plays poker with them.
Born in Lithuania, Tony became a Rubik’s Cube champion! His family soon moved to Australia to avoid the communist regime in Lithuania. Tony is a sort of genius, he was clever and very bright but he lacked focus when at school. He started making money by taking bets on various things and got thrown out of school because of this.
He started playing poker in 1997 in the Crown Casino when it opened its doors in Australia. He took a few trips to Las Vegas when he started playing poker and had a whale of a time. He has lost a lot of money, especially when he was first learning to play poker. He has however, perfected his poker game to the point of hardly ever losing any money.
He uses his wit and his tongue against opponents and brings them down mentally to win a poker game. He isn’t afraid to use his sharp tongue against any other players. Other players may hate him for it, but it wins him games and is all part of the charade of poker.
He may not have won any bracelets at the WSOP yet, but he has taken prize money totalling $2.5 million.
Here’s a short clip of some of the best bits of Tony G:
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