Johnny Chan
Not only has Johnny Chan won two World Series of Poker main event titles, but he’s won two in a row! “The Oriental Express” as he’s also know was born in China then moved with his family to the States when he was 10 years old. He had intended to go into the family restaurant business, but dropped out of college for Hotel and Restaurant Management to move to Las Vegas and become a full-time gambler when he was 21. Johnny Chan has never looked back since, and in 2002 he (along with Lyle Berman) was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.
In 1989, Johnny Chan nearly made it 3 in a row but garnered only 2nd place, losing the big bracelet that year to poker brat Phil Hellmuth, Jr. But that hasn’t been too hard a letdown. At World Series of Poker events alone, Johnny Chan has raked in nearly $3.75 million.
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Between 1985 and 2006, and besides his two consecutive main event championship wins in 1987 and 1988, Johnny Chan earned 8 other World Series of Poker bracelets - two more in No Limit Hold’em (2002, 2003), 1 in Limit Hold’em (1985), 1 in Pot Limit Hold’em (2005), 2 in Pot Limit Omaha (2000, 2003), 1 in Seven Card Stud (1994), and 1 in Deuce to Seven Draw (1997). That’s a well-rounded professional poker player, to be sure, if ever there was one. Johnny Chan’s 10 WSOP bracelets ranks him alongside Phil Hellmuth, Jr. and Doyle Brunson for the most ever won.
In the February 2005 first ever installment of the highly contentious $400,000 Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament, Johnny Chan bounced back from the short stack to take 2nd place, losing only to “The Great Dane” Gus Hansen of FullTilt.com. That summer in the second installment, Poker Superstars II, Johnny Chan took down all 22 opponents, finishing off with Todd Brunson, to take the $400,000 grand prize. Ironically, it was the same Todd Brunson who knocked Chan out of Poker Superstars III in the semifinals.
Appearing on numerous televised competitions, from the World Poker Tour to the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, from GSN’s High Stakes Poker to the WSOP Tournament of Champions, Johnny Chan has accumulated a career live tournament winnings of over $5.7 million. Recently he added to that number by winning the NBC Poker After Dark World Series of Poker Champions event, beating out Doyle Brunson, Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, Jamie Gold of BodogPoker.com, Chris Moneymaker, and Carlos Mortensen.
The rattlesnake-ring-wearing Johnny “The Orient Express” Chan can usually be seen at the table with his trademark lucky orange, there because of its strong, sweet scent, which overrides the smell of cigarette smoke in most casinos that bothers him, a former smoker, so much. Johnny Chan writes regularly for CardPlayer Magazine and consults at many casinos and with many game makers. He co-wrote the instructional poker book “Play Poker Like Johnny Chan”, released in 2005, and then in 2006 released his second poker book “Million Dollar Hold’em: Winning Big in Limit Cash Games”. He owns a fast-food restaurant located in the Stratosphere Hotel, Las Vegas, and he aspires to one day open his own casino.
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