Dutch Boyd

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Dutch Boyd
Dutch Boyd (2015)
Dutch Boyd (2015)
  Personal information  
Date of birth December 24, 1980
place of birth United StatesUnited States Columbia
place of residence United StatesUnited States Las Vegas
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0.$ 475,712
Total prize money $ 2,769,504
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 3
Cashes 59
Best main event 12. ( 2003 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 5
Last updated: April 17, 2020

Dutch Boyd (born December 24, 1980 in Columbia , Missouri ; actually Russell "Russ" Aaron Boyd ) is a professional American poker player and author . He is three-time bracelet winner of the World Series of Poker .

Personal

Boyd attended college at the age of twelve and began studying law at 18 . He lives in Las Vegas .

Poker career

Career

Boyd was inspired by John Dahl's film Rounders about poker. His grandmother taught him the game. Boyd has been participating in renowned live tournaments since 2002 .

Boyd's first major success came in May 2003 when he narrowly missed the final table of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event at Binion's Horseshoe in Las Vegas, finishing twelfth for $ 80,000 . In the 2006 WSOP in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino , he won a tournament variant No-Limit Hold'em , which him his first bracelet brought and more than 475,000 US dollars in prize money. Apart from the World Series , he won a tournament as part of the Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas at the end of November 2007 and received a prize of more than 200,000 US dollars. Boyd secured another bracelet at the 2010 World Series of Poker . He won his third bracelet in June 2014 with just under 300,000 US dollars in prize money.

In total, Boyd has earned more than $ 2.5 million in poker in live tournaments. In March 2014 he published the book Poker Tilt together with Laurence Samuels , which he financed with the help of the Internet platform Kickstarter .

Bracelet overview

Boyd at the 2015 WSOP

Boyd cashed 59 times at the WSOP and won three bracelets :

year Buy-in (in $ ) competition Attendees Prize money (in $)
2006 2500 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed 0824 475.712
2010 2500 Limit Hold'em 6-Handed 0384 234.065
2014 1000 No-Limit Hold'em 1688 288,744

Works

Web links

Commons : Dutch Boyd  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dutch Boyd in the Global Poker Index database, accessed December 1, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c d Dutch Boyd in the World Series of Poker database, accessed December 1, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b Dutch Boyd: "There Are Things in My Book People Won't Appreciate" on pokerlistings.com from May 8, 2014, accessed on December 1, 2015 (English).
  4. ↑ a b Dutch Boyd in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 1, 2015.
  5. ↑ 34th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2003 ($ 10,000 World Championship Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 1, 2015.
  6. ↑ 37th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2006 ($ 2,500 Short Handed No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 1, 2015.
  7. ↑ 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic ($ 2,500 + 120 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 1, 2015.
  8. ↑ 41st World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2010 ($ 2,500 Limit Hold'em - Six Handed) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 1, 2015.
  9. ↑ 45th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2014 ($ 1,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 33)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 1, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Boyd, Dutch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boyd, Russell Aaron (real name); Boyd, Russ (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Columbia , Missouri , United States