Nam Le (poker player)

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Nam Le
Nam Le (2006)
Nam Le (2006)
  Personal information  
Date of birth September 10, 1980
place of birth United StatesUnited States Irvine
place of residence United StatesUnited States Huntington Beach
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 1,198,300
Total prize money $ 7,439,060
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 63
Best main event 736th ( 2017 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title 1
Cashes 19th
Last updated: March 12, 2020

Nam Thien Le (born September 10, 1980 in Irvine , California ) is a professional American poker player of Vietnamese descent.

Personal

Le grew up in Southern California . He lives in Huntington Beach .

Poker career

Le learned a lot about the game from his friend Tuan Le and made his living playing cash games in Los Angeles as early as 2004 . He was also in close contact with JC Tran , Quinn Do and David Rheem , who encouraged him to take up tournament poker. Nam Le has been participating in prestigious live tournaments since 2004 .

Mid-December 2004 reached Le at the Main Event of the World Poker Tour in the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas the final table and received a prize of more than 150,000 for his sixth US dollars . In June 2005 he was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker and came in the money in three tournaments of the No Limit Hold'em variant . In early March 2006, Le won the WPT Main Event in San José with a prize money of around 1.2 million US dollars. In mid-June 2006, Le also won the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge in Tulsa for over $ 200,000. At the 2006 WSOP, he reached a final table and failed in this tournament only in the heads-up on Australian Mark Vos . Le received more than $ 400,000 in prize money for his second place. In June 2007 , he was again at a WSOP final table and finished third in a Hold'em event for nearly $ 250,000. In late February 2008, Le came to the final table of the WPT Main Event in Los Angeles and finished the tournament in fourth place for more than $ 400,000 in prize money. In mid-September 2008 he won the high roller of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour in Macau with a prize money equivalent to almost 500,000 US dollars. At the end of October 2008, he finished second behind Frenchman Bertrand Grospellier at the WPT Main Event at the Bellagio and received prize money of almost 950,000 US dollars. In mid-March 2014, Le reached the final table of the Main Event of the World Poker Tour for the sixth time , finishing fifth in San José for more than $ 220,000.

In total, Le has earned almost US $ 7.5 million from poker in live tournaments.

Web links

Commons : Nam Le  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The PokerNews Profile: Nam Le on pokernews.com June 19, 2009, accessed March 10, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c Nam Le in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 10, 2018 (English).
  3. ↑ Five-Diamond World Poker Classic ($ 15,000 + 300 World Poker Tour Championship - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 10, 2018 (English).
  4. ↑ Bay 101 Shooting Stars ($ 10,000 WPT - Main Event - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 10, 2018.
  5. ↑ 2006 Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge ($ 5,000 + 100 Championship Event - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 10, 2018 (English).
  6. ↑ 37th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2006 ($ 2,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 10, 2018.
  7. ↑ 38th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2007 ($ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 10, 2018.
  8. ↑ 2008 LA Poker Classic ($ 9,900 + 100 No Limit Hold'em - Championship Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 10, 2018 (English).
  9. ↑ APPT - Macau (HK $ 150,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Rollers Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 10, 2018.
  10. ↑ 6th Annual Festa Al Lago Classic ($ 15,000 + 400 WPT Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 10, 2018.
  11. ↑ WPT Bay 101 Shooting Stars ($ 7,150 + 450 No Limit Hold'em Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 10, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Le, Nam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Le, Nam Thien (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Irvine , California , United States