Faraz Jaka

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Faraz Jaka
Faraz Jaka (2019)
Faraz Jaka (2019)
  Personal information  
Date of birth September 9, 1985
place of birth United StatesUnited States San Jose
Nicknames
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The toilet 0PokerStars & Full Tilt Poker

The_ToiletUltimateBet
place of residence United StatesUnited States Chicago
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0.$ 774,780
Total prize money $ 6,822,648
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 48
Best main event 333rd ( 2014 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
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Cashes 14th
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
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Cashes 4th
  Main Event of the PokerStars Championship  
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Cashes 1
  Main Event of party poker Live  
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Cashes 3
Last updated: August 9, 2020

Faraz Jaka (born September 9, 1985 in San José , California ) is a professional American poker player . He was named Player of the Year on the World Poker Tour in 2009/10 .

Personal

Jaka played basketball and athletics in high school . He set time records over a mile (4:29 minutes) and half a mile (1:59 minutes). Jaka attended the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign , where he studied business administration . He lives in Chicago .

Poker career

Jaka started out playing every hand of a suit in hopes of hitting a flush . This reckless way of playing earned him the nickname "The Toilet". Jaka plays online under the nicknames The-Toilet 0 ( PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker ) and The_Toilet (UltimateBet) . He has online tournament earnings of more than 4 million US dollars have. At the end of September 2014 , Jaka finished fifth at the Main Event of the World Championship of Online Poker and received his highest online prize money to date of just under 420,000 US dollars. Since 2007 he has also participated in renowned live tournaments .

Jaka was in mid-June 2011 for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas successful and died in a tournament variant No-Limit Hold'em the money. In February 2008, he won an event at the LA Poker Classic in Los Angeles for a prize of more than $ 100,000. In late June 2009 , Jaka reached his first WSOP final table and earned around $ 400,000 for third place. In mid-July 2009 he sat at the final table of the main event of the World Poker Tour (WPT) at the Hotel Bellagio in Las Vegas and took second place for just under 775,000 US dollars. In December 2009, Jaka again reached the final table of the WPT Main Event and finished third in the Five Diamond World Poker Classic for more than $ 570,000. Because of these achievements, he was named WPT Player of the Year at the end of the season in April 2010 . In mid-January 2012, Jaka finished third in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event in the Bahamas for $ 755,000. At the World Series of Poker Europe played in Cannes in September 2012 , he reached a final table, which brought him around 85,000 euros in prize money. In mid-March 2013, Jaka finished second in the high roller event of the European Poker Tour in London and received the equivalent of more than 360,000 US dollars. In mid-November 2014 he won the high roller of the WPT Emperors Palace Poker Classic in Johannesburg with a prize of more than 100,000 US dollars. In mid-January 2015, Jaka finished seventh in the PCA High Roller for around $ 220,000. In March 2015, he came to the final table of the WPT Main Event in San José and received over $ 200,000 in prize money for his fifth place. At the 2017 WSOP , Jaka made two final tables for a total of over $ 270,000 in prize money. In mid-April 2018, he finished runner-up in the WPT main event of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown in Hollywood for more than $ 450,000 in prize money.

In total, Jaka has earned more than $ 6.5 million in poker in live tournaments. From April to November 2016 he played as team manager for San Francisco Rush in the Global Poker League and made it to the playoffs with his team.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Faraz Jaka in the database of the Global Poker Index, accessed on February 1, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ The-Toilet in the PocketFives database, accessed on February 1, 2018 (English).
  3. ↑ WCOOP: $ 5,200 NL Hold'em Main Event, $ 10M Guaranteed, $ 1.5M + Gtd to 1st! in the PocketFives database, accessed February 1, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b c Faraz Jaka in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 1, 2018.
  5. ↑ 38th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2007 ($ 2,500 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 1, 2018.
  6. ↑ 2008 LA Poker Classic ($ 1,000 + 65 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 1, 2018.
  7. ↑ 40th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2009 ($ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em - Six Handed) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 1, 2018.
  8. ↑ Bellagio Cup V ($ 15,000 + 400 No Limit Hold'em - Championship Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 1, 2018.
  9. ↑ 2009 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic ($ 15,000 + 400 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 1, 2018.
  10. ↑ Faraz Jaka is the Season VIII Player of the Year on worldpokertour.com from April 24, 2010, accessed on February 1, 2018 (English).
  11. ↑ PCA - 2012 ($ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 1, 2018.
  12. ↑ 2012 World Series of Poker - Europe (€ 10,000 + 450 No Limit Hold'em - Mixed Max (Event # 5)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 1, 2018 (English).
  13. ↑ EPT - 9 - UKIPT - 3 - London (£ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 1, 2018.
  14. ↑ WPT Emperors Palace Poker Classic ($ 5,500 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller (Event 5)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 1, 2018.
  15. ↑ PCA - 2015 ($ 24,000 + 1,000 # 24 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller 8 Handed) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 1, 2018.
  16. ↑ WPT Bay 101 Shooting Stars ($ 7,100 + 400 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 1, 2018.
  17. ↑ 2018 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown ($ 3,500 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Showdown Championship (Event # 12)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 19, 2018.
  18. ↑ San Francisco Rush on the Global Poker League website, accessed February 1, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Jaka, Faraz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES The-Toilet 0 (nickname); The-Toilet (Nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH San Jose , California , United States