Jaime Staples

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Jaime Staples
Jaime Staples (2020)
Jaime Staples (2020)
  Personal information  
Date of birth May 27, 1991
place of birth CanadaCanada Calgary
Nicknames
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jaimestaplesPokerStars, partypoker, Full Tilt Poker, Carbon Poker & Americas Cardroom

jstaples1888poker & Betfair
place of residence MaltaMalta Malta
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0$ 26,798
Total prize money $ 135,680
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 2
Best main event no cash
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 2
  Main Event of the PokerStars Championship  
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Cashes 1
Last updated: July 24, 2020

James "Jaime" Staples (born May 27, 1991 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a professional Canadian poker player .

Personal

Staples comes from Lethbridge and began studying there at the University of Lethbridge , which he broke off for an aspired golf career. In 2017 he moved to Europe with his girlfriend and lived successively in Split , Bucharest , Malta and Harrogate . Staples has been engaged since November 2018.

In March 2017, Staples and his brother Matthew entered a bet with multi-millionaire Bill Perkins . In order to win the bet, they had to achieve a difference in body weight of less than one kilogram within a year . When the bet was made, Jaime Staples weighed around 140 kg, while his brother Matthew weighed only 60 kg. As a result, the brothers hired Mike Vacanti as a fitness trainer and posted regular updates under the hashtag "UltimateSweat". At the official weigh-in on March 27, 2018, both were exactly the same weight, turning a wager of just $ 3,000 into a profit of $ 150,000.

Poker career

Staples started playing for play money on the online poker room PokerStars under the nickname jaimestaples . In June 2013 he was successful at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and got money at the Millionaire Maker . He has been playing poker professionally since October 2014 and started streaming his tournaments on the Twitch video portal . Staples now has over 130,000 followers there. Due to a number of high-value online tournament wins and his status on Twitch, Staples was accepted into Team PokerStars as a Friend of PokerStars in April 2015 . He was then part of Team Pro Online on PokerStars until February 2019 . At the end of February 2018, he was named Poker Streamer of the Year 2017 at the American Poker Awards in Los Angeles . Since March 2019 Staples brand ambassador of party poker .

In mid-February 2016, Staples made it to the money at the main event of the European Poker Tour and finished 43rd out of 605 players in Dublin for around 11,000 euros . He cashed once at the 2016 WSOP , finishing in 1936 at Colossus , the largest tournament in the series, for more than $ 1,000. In mid-January 2017, Staples also made the money in the first edition of the PokerStars Championship (PSC) and took 27th place in the main event in the Bahamas for a cash prize of 19,000 US dollars. In PSC Barcelona end of August 2017 Staples won a turbo tournament of the variant PLO and his first live tournament and a prize money of 20,000 euros.

Overall, Staples has made more than $ 100,000 in poker live tournaments and over $ 1 million online.

Web links

Commons : Jaime Staples  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jaime Staples in the Global Poker Index database , accessed February 24, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Jaime Staples on PokerStars.eu, accessed February 24, 2016.
  3. ↑ Jaime Staples on Twitter , accessed June 29, 2017.
  4. ↑ Tweet of November 22, 2018, accessed on November 23, 2018.
  5. ↑ Bill Perkins Bets Staples $ 150k On Weight Loss Prop Bet on pokertube.com as of March 31, 2017, accessed on March 16, 2018.
  6. ↑ Post on Instagram from March 27, 2018, accessed on March 30, 2018 (English).
  7. ↑ a b c Twitch star Jamie Staples is 'Friend of PokerStars' on the PokerStars blog on April 9, 2015, accessed on February 24, 2016.
  8. ↑ 44th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2013 ($ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em - Millionaire Maker (Event # 6)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 24, 2016 (English).
  9. ↑ Jaime Staples on Twitch, accessed February 24, 2016.
  10. ↑ Jaime Staples is also leaving Team PokerStars on pokerstrategy.com on February 6, 2019, accessed on February 9, 2019.
  11. ↑ Poker Awards: Polk gets nothing , Neeme wins double on pokerfirma.com on February 23, 2018, accessed on February 24, 2018.
  12. ↑ Jaime Staples is now playing for the partypoker team online at pokerfirma.com on March 8, 2019, accessed on May 18, 2019.
  13. ↑ EPT - 12 - UKIPT - 5 - Dublin (€ 5,000 + 300 # 28 No Limit Hold'em EPT Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 24, 2016 (English).
  14. ↑ 47th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2016 ($ 565 No Limit Hold'em Colossus II (Event # 2)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on January 11, 2017 (English).
  15. ↑ PokerStars Championship Bahamas ($ 4,700 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - PokerStars Championship Main Event (Event # 23)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 13, 2017.
  16. ↑ PokerStars Championship Barcelona (€ 550 Pot Limit Omaha - Turbo # 35) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 25, 2017.
  17. ↑ Jaime Staples in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 25, 2016.
  18. ↑ jaimestaples in the PocketFives database, accessed June 3, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Staples, Jaime
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Staples, James (full name); PokerStaples (nickname); jaimestaples (nickname); jstaples1 (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian poker player
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Calgary , Alberta , Canada