POKER STARS 2

3. JOHNNY CHAN

Although compared to TJ and Doyle, Chan has only won the World Series of Poker twice, he tops the World Series of Poker money winners list as he has bagged a customized poker chip or two equating to $3,500,000 during his lifetime! He is of Hong-Kong descent and moved to the US with his parents when he was a teenager. When he landed in the US he started playing poker for small amounts but you could tell even then that he was going to bag a fair few huge customized poker chip stacks in his time as a professional poker player! He did attend University in Houston to study some sort of business management course but the world of poker and the World Series of Poker beckoned him in! He quit his degree and took up gambling his customized poker chip stacks for a living. He moved to Las Vegas in 1978 and started gambling and gaming full-time.

Of course, we all know how successful he was with his revered customized poker chip stack. His intimidating manner earnt him the nickname, Johnny ‘The Orient Express’ Chan and took him all the way to nine World Series of Poker bracelets. He is only one of three poker players to have ever achieved this (the others who have maximised the potential of their customized poker chip stack in this way are Doyle Brunson and Phil Hellmuth).

4. JENNIFER HARMAN

Nobody said poker was just for men. Women can play just as good a gambling game of poker with their customized poker chip stack as their male counterparts can. She is probably the best female player in the world and is good friends with another poker star, Daniel Negreanu. Not only this, but she and her customized poker chip stack often come out on top of male players on the World Series of Poker circuit. In 2000, she won the World Series of Poker $5000 no-limit deuce-to-seven event, without ever having played the game before that day! Certainly one to look out for if you end up at the World Series of Poker and value your customized poker chip stack! It is great fun to watch some of the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour events to see how cool, calm and collected this player is when her customized poker chip stack is under pressure. Let’s hope that she lets us delve into some of her poker skills for the benefit of us mere mortals by writing a book in the very near future.