Mike Leah

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Mike Leah
Mike Leah (2018)
Mike Leah (2018)
  Personal information  
Date of birth October 15, 1974
place of birth CanadaCanada Toronto
Nicknames
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GoLeafsGoEhPokerStars, Full Tilt Poker & partypoker

1GoLeafsGoEh1UltimateBet
place of residence CanadaCanada Innisfil
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 1,047,638
Total prize money $ 7,973,620
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 1
Cashes 81
Best main event 180th ( 2005 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title 1
Cashes 14th
  Main Event of party poker Live  
title no
Cashes 6th
Last updated: August 3, 2020

Michael "Mike" Leah (born October 15, 1974 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a professional Canadian poker player .

Personal

Leah lived alternately with his divorced parents as a child and grew up with his older sister, two half-siblings and a stepsister. He was a professional wrestler and won the national championship for his age group in high school . Leah later took part in the World Wrestling Championship with the Canadian national team. After graduation, he took a year off from sports and worked as a salesman for the Canadian Community Reading Plan. There Leah finally worked his way up from sales representative to manager of Western Canada and Eastern Canada. He lives in Innisfil .

Poker career

Leah learned poker from an employee in 2005. Leah has been playing online under the nicknames GoLeafsGoEh (PokerStars , Full Tilt Poker and partypoker ) and 1GoLeafsGoEh1 ( UltimateBet ) since July 2006 . His biggest online cash prize he received in late September 2011 on PokerStars when he the main event of the World Championship of Online Poker in third place for more than 650,000 US dollars occupied. Overall, Leah's online poker tournament revenue amounts to just under $ 4 million. Since 2006 he has also participated in renowned live tournaments .

Leah won the Bellagio Cup at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas on July 31, 2006 with a prize of more than $ 85,000. In August 2006 he was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and came in the money in a tournament of the No Limit Hold'em variant . In late March 2009 Leah won the main event of the Borgata Deep Stack Poker Tournament in Atlantic City with a prize of around $ 320,000. At the 2013 WSOP , he reached a final table in the Seven Card Stud Hi / Lo variant and received more than $ 100,000 for his third place. When PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas Leah won in January 2014, a turbo tournament with a prize money of nearly $ 120,000. In July 2014, he finished second behind Chris Hunichen at the Deepstack Extravaganza at the Venetian Resort Hotel and received almost 200,000 US dollars. In early September 2014 Leah finished second behind Dan Colman at the main event of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open in Hollywood and received his highest cash prize of more than one million US dollars. Leah won the high roller event at the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific in Melbourne in mid-October 2014 . For this he prevailed against 67 other players and received a bracelet in addition to the victory bonus of 600,000 Canadian dollars . In early March 2015, he reached the final table of the Main Event of the World Poker Tour (WPT) in Los Angeles and received around $ 700,000 in prize money for his second place behind Anthony Zinno . In February 2017 Leah won a tournament as part of the WPT Fallsview Poker Classic in Niagara Falls for just under $ 200,000. In mid-August 2017, he finished second in the high roller of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open for around $ 560,000. In mid-February 2018, Leah won the WPT Main Event in Niagara Falls after a deal . The deal earned him approximately C $ 350,000 in prize money. In addition, although he was behind in stacks at the time, he received the title, which was subsequently controversial in the poker scene. At the 2018 WSOP , Leah finished fourth in the Poker Player's Championship for just under $ 365,000 and finished seventh in the Pot Limit Omaha Championship for around $ 115,000 in prize money.

Overall, Leah has earned almost $ 8 million in poker in live tournaments. From April to November 2016 he played as part of the Paris Aviators in the Global Poker League , but missed the playoffs with his team.

Web links

Commons : Mike Leah  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c A Poker Life - Mike 'GoLeafsGoEh' Leah on cardplayer.com on September 8, 2009, accessed on April 16, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ Mike Leah in the Global Poker Index database, accessed April 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ goleafsgoeh in the PocketFives database, accessed on April 16, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b Mike Leah in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 16, 2018.
  5. ↑ Bellagio Cup II ($ 1,000 + 80 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 16, 2018.
  6. ↑ 37th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2006 ($ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 16, 2018.
  7. ↑ Borgata $ 500,000 Guaranteed Deep Stack Poker Tournament ($ 1,500 + 150 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 16, 2018.
  8. ↑ 44th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2013 ($ 5,000 Seven Card Stud Hi / Lo (Event # 13)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 16, 2018.
  9. ↑ PCA - 2014 ($ 5,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em Turbo) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 16, 2018.
  10. ↑ Deepstack Extravaganza III ($ 1,100 No Limit Hold'em # 60) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 16, 2018.
  11. ↑ 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open ($ 5,300 No Limit Hold'em SHRPO Main Event (#Event 16)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 16, 2018.
  12. ↑ World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific (WSOP APAC) (A $ 25,000 No Limt Hold'em High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 16, 2018.
  13. ↑ 2015 LA Poker Classic ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 16, 2018.
  14. ↑ 2017 WPT Fallsview Poker Classic (C $ 1,000 + 100 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 16, 2018 (English).
  15. ↑ 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open ($ 25,500 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller (Event # 13)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 16, 2018.
  16. ↑ 2018 WPT Fallsview Poker Classic (C $ 4,700 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 16, 2018 (English).
  17. ↑ Mike Leah Prompts' Raging Debate After WPT Fallsview Deal on pokernews.com on February 14, 2018, accessed on November 25, 2019.
  18. ↑ 49th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2018 ($ 50,000 Poker Players Championship (Event # 33)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 20, 2018.
  19. ↑ 49th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2018 ($ 10,000 Pot Limit Omaha - Championship (Event # 49)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 28, 2018.
  20. ↑ Paris Aviators on the Global Poker League website, accessed April 16, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Leah, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leah, Michael (full name); GoLeafsGoEh (nickname); 1GoLeafsGoEh1 (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian poker player
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario , Canada