Jan Sørensen (poker player)

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Jan Sørensen
Jan Sørensen (2005)
Jan Sørensen (2005)
  Personal information  
Year of birth 1960
place of residence DenmarkDenmark Odense
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0.$ 800,972
Total prize money $ 2,180,585
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 2
Cashes 15th
Best main event 182nd ( 2004 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 3
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
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Cashes 2
Last updated: July 5, 2020

Jan Vang Sørensen (* 1960 as Jan Vang Hansen ) is a professional Danish poker player and former soccer player . He is two-time bracelet winner of the World Series of Poker .

Personal

Sørensen earned his living as a football player and played a. a. at Odense BK in the Superliga until he had to end his career at the age of 30 due to a knee injury. He later changed his last name from Hansen (his father's last name) to Sørensen (his mother's last name) in order to be able to live as a professional poker player in Las Vegas .

Poker career

Career

Sørensen has participated in prestigious live tournaments since 1995 .

Sørensen was successful for the first time in May 1995 at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Binion's Horseshoe in Las Vegas and came in a tournament of the variant Seven Card Stud in the money. In November 1998 he won a tournament at the European Open in Dortmund and in the following month at the same place an event at the Hohensyburg Championships , for each of which he received a prize of 125,500 German marks . At the 2002 WSOP , Sørensen prevailed in a Pot Limit Omaha tournament and secured a bracelet and the grand prize of US $ 185,000 . In the same variant, he won an event at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas a month later with a prize of almost 80,000 US dollars. In June 2005, Sørensen secured in the meantime in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino played out 2005 WSOP his second bracelet with a win in the variant Seven Card Stud , the dollar US doped with nearly 300,000. In mid-October 2005 he reached the final table at the main event of the World Poker Tour at the Bellagio and finished in fifth place for just under 140,000 US dollars. A month later, he was also at the final table at the main event of the Master Classics of Poker in Amsterdam and finished third, earning him 132,000 euros . Three years later, in November 2008, Sørensen asserted himself as the winner of the main event of the Master Classics of Poker and received the main prize of over 620,000 euros. His last live cash placement to date was in March 2013 at the Unibet Open in Copenhagen .

In total, Sørensen has earned more than $ 2 million in poker in live tournaments.

Bracelet overview

Sørensen cashed 15 times at the WSOP and won two bracelets :

year Buy-in (in $ ) competition Attendees Prize money (in $)
2002 2500 Pot-Limit Omaha 089 185,000
2005 5000 Seven Card Stud 192 293.275

Web links

Commons : Jan Sørensen  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Vang Sorensen-Poker professional holding 2 bracelets in his hands on layneflackpokerfan.net from July 3, 2014, accessed on December 4, 2019 (English).
  2. ↑ How Gus Hansen and Jan Sorensen swapped names on pokerground.com from August 18, 2015, accessed on December 4, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Jan Sørensen in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 4, 2019.
  4. ↑ 26th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1995 ($ 2,500 Seven-Card Stud) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 4, 2019.
  5. ↑ European Open 1998 (DM 6,400 Seven Card Stud - Grand Slam Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 4, 2019 (English).
  6. ↑ 2nd Hohensburg Championships 1998 (Limit 7 Card Stud) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 4, 2019 (English).
  7. ↑ 33rd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2002 ($ 2,500 Pot Limit Omaha) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 4, 2019.
  8. ↑ 2003 Bellagio Five-Star World Poker Classic WPT Championship ($ 2,500 Pot Limit Omaha) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 4, 2019.
  9. ↑ 36th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2005 ($ 5,000 Seven Card Stud) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 4, 2019.
  10. ↑ Bellagio Festa Al Lago IV ($ 10,000 + 200 2nd Annual Doyle Brunson North American Poker Championship - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 4, 2019.
  11. ↑ Master Classics of Poker (MCOP) 2005 (€ 5,000 Main Event - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 4, 2019 (English).
  12. ↑ Master Classics of Poker (MCOP) 2008 (€ 6,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 4, 2019 (English).
  13. ↑ Unibet Open Copenhagen 2013 (No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 4, 2019 (English).
  14. ↑ Jan Sørensen in the World Series of Poker database, accessed on December 4, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Sørensen, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sørensen, Jan Vang (full name); Hansen, Jan Vang (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish football and poker player
DATE OF BIRTH 1960