"You don't have to have a lot of money to become a poker player, but you gotta have faith in yourself."
Johnny's formula for success
1957
Canton, CN
Married
6, all their names start with a "J"
Las Vegas, US
USA
Studied Restaurant and Hotel Management in Houston, dropped out to become a professional poker player
Spending time with his family, bowling, swimming, billard, designer fashion (Versace), expensive cars (Mercedes), fancy restaurants
...as a teenager through colleagues from the bowling club
Hold'em
Aggressive, quick
Chip Reese, Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey
"He's the best at reading other players. At least 90 percent of the time he's right." (T.J. Cloutier)
Always places an orange on the poker table because he likes the smell; played a role as himself in the poker movie "Rounders"; owns 6 houses; can be seen in a rap video; played poker in Las Vegas already at the age of 16; has won 10 WSOP Bracelets (as of March 08); is friends with Hollywoodstar Matt Damon; likes to warm up before a tournament with a Japanese massage; one of his cars has the license plate JJ333 because this Full House earned him a lot of money
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Johnny Chan
The poker professional Johnny „The Orient Express“ Chan was born in 1957 in Guanghzou (formally Canton), China as the oldest of three children and is one of the best poker players in the world without doubt. The man who has won ten WSOP titles (May, 2011) so far, spent the first six years of his life in Guanghzou, where his family lived in very modest conditions. Then they moved to Hong Kong before they emigrated to the U.S. three years later. The family first went to live in Phoenix but they finally settled down in Houston, because Johnny’s father opened a restaurant there...
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