professional poker player johnny chan
Year Born:
1957
Born: Canton,
China
WSOP Bracelets:
10
Main Event
titles: 2
Started playing
poker: in his teens
Fun fact: Johnny
started playing in an underground game with people in his father’s restaurant
but was soon told the game was cancelled. Later he found out they had excluded
him because he consistently won too much.
Johnny used to
smoke 4 packs of cigarettes a day.
Johnny loves
expensive and colorful Versace shirts.
He is nicknamed the ‘Orient Express’ because of the time he knocked out
13 of the 16 players entered in a tournament in just over thirty minutes.