Brock Parker

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Brock Parker
Brock Parker (2009)
Brock Parker (2009)
  Personal information  
Date of birth August 15, 1981
Nicknames
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t sopranoPokerStars

bobcards2Full Tilt Poker

PogFanaticpartypoker

Maria NucciaUltimateBet
place of residence United StatesUnited States Silver Spring
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0.$ 552,745
Total prize money $ 3,794,420
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 3
Cashes 68
Best main event 178th ( 2007 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
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Cashes 8th
Last updated: January 11, 2020

John Brock Parker (born August 15, 1981 ) is a professional American poker player . He is three-time bracelet winner of the World Series of Poker .

Personal

Parker is from Silver Spring and still lives there today. He played the trading card game Magic: The Gathering and got into poker from there .

Poker career

Career

Parker played online from February 2006 to April 2017 under the nicknames t soprano ( PokerStars ) , bobcards2 ( Full Tilt Poker ) , PogFanatic ( partypoker ) and Maria Nuccia ( UltimateBet ) . Its online poker tournament earnings are just under 2.5 million US dollars . In 2007 he was temporarily in third place in the Pocket Fives ranking, which lists the most successful online poker tournament players worldwide. Parker has been participating in prestigious live tournaments since 2002. He taught his friend Justin Bonomo how to play poker in 2006 . Bonomo is the most successful poker player today by tournament prize money .

In May 2004 , Parker was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and was able to place twice in the money. At the 2009 WSOP , he won two tournaments within four days, which earned him two bracelets and almost $ 900,000 in prize money. In mid-November 2012, Parker prevailed at the Borgata Fall Poker Open in Atlantic City and received a prize of more than $ 370,000. In early June 2014, he won at the WSOP in 2014 , a tournament variant Limit Omaha Hi / Lo and thus secured his third bracelet and the top prize of nearly 450,000 US dollars.

In total, Parker has made more than $ 3.5 million in poker playing live tournaments.

Bracelet overview

Parker cashed 68 times at the WSOP and won three bracelets :

year Buy-in (in $ ) competition Attendees Prize money (in $)
2009 0.2500 Limit Hold'em / Six Handed 0367 223,697
0.2500 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed 1068 552.745
2014 10,000 Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better 0178 443,407

Web links

Commons : Brock Parker  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Brock Parker in the Global Poker Index database, accessed on October 11, 2015.
  2. ↑ Brock Parker at pokercast.twoplustwo.com, accessed October 11, 2015.
  3. ↑ t soprano in the PocketFives database, accessed on November 13, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b Brock Parker in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 11, 2015.
  5. ↑ The PokerNews Profile: Justin Bonomo on pokernews.com June 3, 2009, accessed November 13, 2018.
  6. ↑ 35th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2004 ($ 2,000 Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 11, 2015.
  7. ↑ 35th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2004 ($ 1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 11, 2015.
  8. ↑ 40th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2009 ($ 2,500 Limit Hold'em - Six Handed) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 11, 2015.
  9. ↑ 40th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2009 ($ 2,500 No Limit Hold'em - Six Handed) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 11, 2015.
  10. ↑ Borgata Fall Poker Open ($ 2,500 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 13, 2018.
  11. ↑ 45th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2014 ($ 10,000 Limit Omaha Hi / Lo (Event # 10)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed October 11, 2015.
  12. ↑ Brock Parker in the World Series of Poker database, accessed January 28, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Parker, Brock
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parker, John Brock (full name); t_soprano (nickname); bobcards2 (nickname); PogFanatic (nickname); Maria Nuccia (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1981