Jamie Gold, representing Team Bodog, with one tournament win has now won wore tournament money than any other professional poker player. Jamie clearly outplayed the final table and used advantage of his chip stack to take calculated chances to win the 2006 WSOP. Congrats Jamie!
An avid poker player, Gold grew up in a family of card players, with his mother, Jane, a longtime poker player and his grandfather a gin rummy champion. Gold plays close to 40 hours a week in Los Angeles-area card rooms and in the 15 months prior to the WSOP had earned just under $100,000 in tournament winnings. Gold has also had the opportunity to learn from one of the game's biggest legends – 10-time WSOP bracelet-holder Johnny Chan. The two men met while working together on a poker television concept. In exchange for Gold's assistance, Chan promised to help him refine his game. Both Gold's mother and Chan were at the WSOP cheering him on, but with Chan literally standing behind him throughout the entire final table, Gold had all the support he needed to win.
"He believed in me," Gold said. "He told me I could win this."
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