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Brad Booth
Brad Booth, nicknamed “Yukon” because he grew up in the Canadian Yukon, is considered by many the best unknown player in the world.
Booth started poker at an early age. When Booth was 15 and a half he dropped out of high school, despite his parents telling him that if he stayed in school until he was 16 they would buy him a car. Nonetheless, he tried every trick to deceive his parents that he was still in school; bringing books to his new job as a pizza boy and engaging in “late night study sessions” at private card rooms.
Booth was playing poker a lot, scrounging up as much money from his job as he could to buy in to the $4-$8 Limit Hold’em game. Although poker wasn’t going too well in the beginning, Booth would often lose all his money from his day job in one night. Sometimes Brad would buy in for $8, desperately hoping it would turn into hundreds. Before he received his car Brad was so broke he’d have to hitchhike everywhere he needed to be. But because of his unwavering obsession for poker, he ended up becoming a winning player, despite being taught by no one else but himself.
As Brad continued playing, his skills brought him all the way from the lowly limit games up to the highest cash games played. Booth made a promise to play a 16 hour poker session every day for three years, and he soared from there. Doyle Brunson, seeing the talent that Booth possessed, signed him to DoylesRoom.com, an online poker site where many professionals played.
Although Booth is known as a cash game player, his results haven’t been too shabby on the tournament circuit. In 2006 he received 2nd place at the Mandalay Bay Poker Championship for over $320,000, as well as getting to the final table in two other events that year. Booth has now amassed more than six hundred thousand dollars in tournament winnings.
Calling an all in with ten high to the average poker player is crazy, but for Hansen it’s not crazy, just crazy good. Hansen was right, Esfandiari flips over pocket sevens. Hansen wins the coinflip, and essentially the tournament, showing that he may be the best, sickest, and the craziest poker player in the world.
But as successful as Brad has been in tournaments, his real success has come in cash games. Booth is a regular at the highest No Limit Hold’em games on Full Tilt, which goes all the way up to $60,000 buy in. His success is so well noted he found himself on season two and three of the popular poker show “High Stakes Poker,” where only the top players in the world are invited.
Common Misspellings: Brad Both, Braad Booth
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