Perry Green

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Perry Green
  Personal information  
Year of birth 1936
place of birth United StatesUnited States Seattle
Nickname Alaska's Poker Guru
place of residence United StatesUnited States Anchorage
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0.150,000 $
Total prize money $ 1,124,024
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 3
Cashes 31
Best main event 2. ( 1981 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 1
Last updated: February 23, 2020

Perry Green (* 1936 in Seattle , Washington ) is a professional American poker player . He is three-time bracelet winner of the World Series of Poker and is nicknamed Alaska's Poker Guru .

Poker career

Career

Green has been taking part in prestigious live tournaments since 1976 .

In early May 1976, Green was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Binion's Horseshoe in Las Vegas and won a tournament of the Limit Ace to Five Draw variant . In return, he prevailed over 79 other players and received a prize of 68,300 US dollars and a bracelet . The following year he won an event of the WSOP 1977 in the same variant and secured his second bracelet . Green won his third WSOP tournament in mid-May 1979 in the No Limit Hold'em variant , for which he received $ 76,500. In February 1980 and 1981 he was runner- up in the Superbowl Of Poker at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, earning him more than $ 140,000 in prize money. He finished second in the main event at the 1981 WSOP and received the highest cash prize of his poker career of $ 150,000. Also in 1991 he sat at the final table of the WSOP main event and finished fifth for just under 70,000 US dollars. Since then, there have been no major poker successes.

Overall, Green has earned over a million US dollars with poker in live tournaments.

Bracelet overview

Green cashed 31 times at the WSOP and won three bracelets :

year Buy-in (in $ ) competition Attendees Prize money (in $)
1976 1000 Limit ace to five draw 80 68,300
1977 5000 Limit ace to five draw 02 10,000
1979 1500 No Limit Hold'em - Non Pro 85 76,500

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Where Are They Now: 1981 World Series of Poker Main Event Runner-Up Perry Green on pokernews.com on August 10, 2012, accessed on June 21, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c Perry Green in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 28, 2019.
  3. ↑ 7th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1976 ($ 1,000 Ace to Five Draw) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 28, 2019.
  4. ↑ 8th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1977 ($ 5,000 Limit Ace to Five Draw) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 28, 2019.
  5. ↑ 10th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1979 ($ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 28, 2019.
  6. ↑ Amarillo Slim's Superbowl Of Poker 1980 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 28, 2019.
  7. ↑ Amarillo Slim's Superbowl Of Poker 1981 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 28, 2019.
  8. ↑ 12th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1981 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em World Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 28, 2019.
  9. ↑ 22nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1991 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em World Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed July 28, 2019.
  10. ↑ Perry Green in the World Series of Poker database, accessed July 28, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Green, Perry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alaska's Poker Guru (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle , Washington , United States