Antonio Esfandiari

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Antonio Esfandiari
Antonio Esfandiari (2008)
Antonio Esfandiari (2008)
  Personal information  
Date of birth December 8, 1978
place of birth IranIran Tehran
Nickname The Magician
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place of residence United StatesUnited States Las Vegas
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 18,346,673
Total prize money $ 27,810,802
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 3
Cashes 49
Best main event 24. ( 2009 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
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Cashes 20th
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
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Cashes 2
  Main Event of party poker Live  
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Last updated: January 5, 2020

Antonio Esfandiari (born December 8, 1978 in Tehran as Amir Esfandiari ) is a professional American - Iranian poker player .

Esfandiari has earned over $ 27.5 million in live poker tournaments . He won the Big One for One Drop of the World Series of Poker in 2012, securing the highest prize money paid out to date of more than 18 million US dollars. Overall, he is a three-time bracelet winner of the tournament series and two-time title holder of the World Poker Tour . As part of the 50th edition of the World Series of Poker , Esfandiari was named one of the 50 best players in poker history in June 2019 .

Personal

Esfandiari moved his family to San José , California, when he was nine . Since he was annoyed at school because of his first name Amir, he had it changed first to Anthony and, at 19, to Antonio. Esfandiari later worked as a professional trick artist, hence the nickname The Magician .

Poker career

Career

While he worked as a magician, he started playing poker and won in 2004 nearly 1.4 million US dollars by winning the Main Event of the LA Poker Classic as part of the World Poker Tour in Los Angeles . Shortly afterwards he won his first bracelet at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas in the variant Pot Limit Texas Hold'em .

Esfandiari participated in the second and third seasons of Poker Superstars . After finishing last in season two, he managed to finish the tournament in second place a year later. He was also featured on five of the seven seasons of High Stakes Poker .

From May 2007 Esfandiari was on the American pay-per-view broadcaster MOJO HD in the eight-part television series I bet you with his best friend Phil Laak , in which the two made crazy bets against each other. Like Laak, he also made a cameo as a poker player in the 2008 comedy film All in - All or nothing .

In July 2012 to Esfandiari secured at the World Series of Poker victory in the Big One for One Drop . The $ 1 million buy-in tournament was the most expensive poker tournament in the world to date. Esfandiari won his third bracelet and, at 18,346,673 million US dollars, the highest prize money at a poker tournament up to the Triton Million for Charity in August 2019. With this win, his live tournament winnings exceeded $ 22.8 million; He thus took over the lead in the All Time Money List , which he held until July 2014.

At the World Series of Poker Europe , which was held in Cannes in 2012 , Esfandiari won a tournament in No Limit Hold'em and thus his third bracelet as well as a prize money of over 120,000 euros .

Bracelet overview

Esfandiari cashed 49 times at the WSOP and won three bracelets :

year Buy-in competition Attendees Prize money
2004 E. 0.00.$ 2000 Pot-Limit Hold'em 324 00.$ 184,860
2012 E. $ 1,000,000 The Big One for One Drop 048 $ 18,346,673
2012 E 0.00.1100 € No-Limit Hold'em 626 00.€ 126,207

Prize money overview

Esfandiari at the 2007 National Heads-Up Poker Championship
year Prize money (in $ ) Tournament victories
2002 00.051,715 -
2003 00.034,060 -
2004 01,602,495 2
2005 00.679.121 1
2006 00.261,762 4th
2007 00.187,608 1
2008 00.305,468 -
2009 00.441,368 1
2010 00.944,519 1
2011 00.177,706 -
2012 19,078,808 2
2013 01,860,925 -
2014 00.658.626 -
2015 00.228.881 -
2016 00.857.883 1
2017 00.260.931 -
2018 00.096,563 -
2019 00.082,365 -
2020 00,000.000 -
total 27.810.802 13

Trivia

In January 2016, Esfandiari only lungeed for 48 hours due to a bet with multi-millionaire Bill Perkins during the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas . However, since Esfandiari urinated into a bottle at his table during the main event in order to save himself the exhausting way to the toilet, he was disqualified by the tournament management and then donated the amount won against Perkins as an apology to charity.

Web links

Commons : Antonio Esfandiari  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Antonio Esfandiari in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 1, 2017.
  2. ↑ WSOP Reveals List of 50 Greatest Players in Poker History , pokernews.com, accessed July 21, 2019.
  3. ↑ Antonio Esfandiari pulls of amazing trick by winning One Drop on wsop.com from July 4, 2012, accessed on April 1, 2017 (English).
  4. ↑ All Time Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 1, 2017.
  5. ↑ 2012 World Series of Poker - Europe (€ 1,000 + 100 No Limit Hold'em - (Event # 2)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 1, 2017 (English).
  6. ↑ Antonio Esfandiari in the World Series of Poker database, accessed April 1, 2017.
  7. ↑ Esfandiari Disqualified From Poker Tournament For Peeing In A Container Underneath The Table on cardplayer.com on January 11, 2016, accessed on January 16, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Esfandiari, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Esfandiari, Amir (maiden name); The Magician (nickname); LastChance11 (nickname); LastChanc3 (nickname); rooflak (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American-Iranian poker player
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Tehran , Iran