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In addition to playing poker, Chan owns a fast-food franchise in the Las Vegas Stratosphere Hotel and is a consultant for casinos and game makers. Chan has written for Card Player magazine. He appeared in the first (2006) and 2011 seasons of the GSN series High Stakes Poker .
There were 167 entrants to the main event on 16 May 1988. Each paid $10,000 to enter the tournament, with the top 36 players finishing in the money. The 1988 Main Event was the second consecutive World Championship for Johnny Chan. [3] The final hand that featured Chan against Erik Seidel would be featured in the 1998 movie Rounders. [4] [5]
Moss, Ungar, Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan are the only people who have won the Main Event two years in a row. Johnny Chan's second victory in 1988 was featured on the 1998 film Rounders. [4] Peter Eastgate was the youngest person to win the Main Event when he won it in 2008, at 22 years of age. [5]
There were 152 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter the tournament, with the top 36 players finishing in the money. The 1987 Main Event was Johnny Chan's first of back-to-back World Championships. [2] [3] Dan Harrington finished in sixth place. He would later go on to win the 1995 WSOP Main Event.
The 1989 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe.The 1989 Main Event was won by 24-year-old Phil Hellmuth, defeating defending champion Johnny Chan, and also breaking the record for being the youngest player to win the WSOP Main Event (a record previously set by Stu Ungar in 1980).
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At the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Laak finished second to Johnny Chan in the $2,500 pot limit hold 'em event. [9] Laak defeated Ram Vaswani to win the inaugural William Hill Poker Grand Prix, taking home the £150,000 first prize. [10] He has also competed in numerous Poker Royale series.
In his first major poker tournament, Seidel was runner-up in the 1988 World Series of Poker Main Event to Johnny Chan. [5] This final hand was featured in the 1998 movie Rounders. [6] Seidel made the WSOP Main Event final table again in 1999, finishing in fourth place in the event won by Noel Furlong. [7] Seidel won his first WSOP bracelet in ...