David Sklansky

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David Sklansky
David Sklansky (2007)
David Sklansky (2007)
  Personal information  
Date of birth December 22, 1947
place of birth United StatesUnited States Teaneck
Nickname The Mathematician
place of residence United StatesUnited States Teaneck
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0.$ 419,040
Total prize money $ 1,409,667
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 3
Cashes 42
Best main event 27. ( 1988 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title 1
Cashes 6th
Last updated: August 8, 2020

David Bruce Sklansky (born December 22, 1947 in Teaneck , New Jersey ) is an American poker player and author . He is three-time bracelet winner of the World Series of Poker and once won the Main Event of the World Poker Tour .

Poker career

Career

Sklansky's father was a math professor at Columbia University . At the age of 12, Sklansky got the highest score in the math part of the SAT . After graduating from high school in 1966 he studied at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania , but ended it without examination after one year. He worked briefly as an investment advisor, but then turned to the game of poker. At that time, Texas Hold'em was not very common in casinos . Sklansky's book about it, published in 1976, laid the foundation for the popularity of this variant of poker . Having a total of 1982 and 1983 three tournaments of the World Series of Poker had won, founded in 1984 together with Sklansky Mason Malmuth , which he has given poker lessons, the book publisher Two Plus Two Publishing . Since then he has published twelve books on the strategy of the card game. He also worked as a consultant for casinos and online poker websites.

Overall, Sklansky has with Poker at live tournaments almost 1.5 million US dollars earned.

Bracelets

Sklansky cashed 42 times at the WSOP and won three bracelets :

year Buy-in (in $ ) competition Attendees Prize money (in $)
1982 0800 Mixed doubles 44 0.
8800shared with Dani Kelly
1000 Draw high 31 15,500
1983 1000 Pot Limit Omaha 51 25,500

Trivia

2006 saw Sklansky through a public betting offer more than 50,000 US dollars a stir. Sklansky claimed that no fundamentalist Christian could score better than him on a standardized math test. The prerequisite was that they had previously demonstrably passed a polygraph test, in which the person concerned assured that he believed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the existence of hell , and furthermore that all people who do not share this view would be in the Hell would come. He was then criticized as arrogant by Ken Jennings, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and record winner on the US television show Jeopardy .

Books

literature

  • Current biography yearbook 2007, pp. 491–494

Web links

Commons : David Sklansky  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Sklansky in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ David Sklansky in the World Series of Poker database, accessed August 8, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Sklansky, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sklansky, David Bruce (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Teaneck , New Jersey , United States