Stephen Chidwick

Stephen Chidwick
Stephen Chidwick (2014)
Personal information
Date of birth	May 10, 1989
place of birth	deal
Nicknames 0 0	stevie444PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker & UltimateBet stevie_444partypoker TylersDad64PokerStars.FR
place of residence	Playa del Carmen
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	0$ 5,368,948
Total prize money	$ 34,387,646
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	1
Cashes	54
Best main event	479th ( 2013 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	4th
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	13
Main Event of party poker Live
title	no
Cashes	4th
Last updated: June 24, 2020

Stephen James Chidwick (born May 10, 1989 in Deal ) is a professional British poker player from England .

Chidwick is considered one of the best tournament players in the world. He has earned almost 34.5 million US dollars with poker in live tournaments , making him the most successful European poker player in sixth place among the most successful poker players in terms of tournament prize money . His greatest successes include winning a bracelet at the World Series of Poker in June 2019 and fourth place at the Triton Million for Charity in August 2019, which brought him the equivalent of almost 5.5 million US dollars.

Chidwick topped the live poker world rankings for 25 consecutive weeks from April 18 to October 9, 2018 . Only Alex Foxen and Fedor Holz did a longer series . From June 26th to July 9th and from July 24th to 30th, 2019, Chidwick led the ranking for 3 more weeks. From August 14th to December 24th, 2019 he was again the leader for 19 weeks. From June 17, 2020, he was back at the top for a week. Overall, Chidwick was world number one for 48 weeks , only Jason Mercier and Alex Foxen held the position longer. At the 50th edition of the World Series of Poker in June 2019, Chidwick was named one of the 50 best players in poker history .

Personal

Chidwick comes from Deal in the English county of Kent . In 2016 he won a tournament at the Backgammon World Championship. Chidwick lives in Playa del Carmen, Mexico .

Poker career

On-line

Chidwick plays online under the nicknames stevie444 ( PokerStars , Full Tilt Poker and UltimateBet ) , stevie_444 ( partypoker ) and TylersDad64 (PokerStars.FR) . He started freerolls at the age of 16 and now has tournament revenues of more than five million US dollars . Chidwick secured his biggest online prize money in mid-May 2009 on the Full Tilt Poker platform when he finished second in an event in the Full Tilt Online Poker Series for just under 150,000 US dollars. In 2008, he was at number eleven in the PocketFives ranking, which lists the most successful online poker tournament players worldwide.

live

Career

2008–2013: First tournament successes

Chidwick made his first live cash placement at a PokerStars Caribbean Adventures (PCA) event in the Bahamas . This tournament of the variant No-Limit Hold'em he decided in January 2008 for himself and secured a prize money of 90,000 US dollars. In mid-September 2008 he took 15th place at the main events of the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Barcelona and received 37,200 euros . In June 2010 , Chidwick 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 reached the money three times. At the 2011 WSOP , he reached the final table of the Pot Limit Hold'em Championship and finished the tournament in fourth place, worth nearly $ 200,000. A year later he was again at two WSOP final tables and finished third in a HORSE event and sixth in the Poker Player's Championship , earning him around $ 365,000 in prize money. At the 2013 WSOP , Chidwick finished fourth in the $ 25,000 buy-in, the third most expensive event on the tournament schedule, and received more than $ 350,000 in prize money. In December 2013, he reached the final table in Prague at both the Eureka Poker Tour main event and the EPT main event, finishing third in each case, for which he received prize money of over 470,000 euros.

Overall, Chidwick had tournament revenue of more than $ 2 million by the end of 2013.

2014–2017: Rise to the top of the world

In early May 2014, Chidwick sat at the final table of the EPT High Roller in Monte-Carlo and finished in seventh place, which was paid for 187,200 euros. In December 2014, he finished third at the EPT Super High Roller in Prague for over 350,000 euros. In the A $ 25,000 Challenge of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne , Chidwick finished fourth in late January 2015, earning him 250,000 Australian dollars . At the 2015 WSOP , he finished the World Championship in Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better in second behind Max Pescatori and secured around $ 180,000. At the Super High Roller of the EPT in Monte-Carlo, Chidwick received prize money of almost 380,000 euros in sixth place at the end of April 2016. In mid-March 2017, he won a one-day high roller event at the PokerStars Championship (PSC) in Panama with a prize money of $ 366,500. He achieved the same in August 2017 at PSC Barcelona, ​​where the main prize of almost 700,000 euros was secured. In mid-October 2017, Chidwick finished sixth at the main event of the Triton Super High Roller Series in Macau for the equivalent of 440,000 US dollars.

Overall, Chidwick had tournament revenue of around $ 10 million by the end of 2017. In the race for the Global Poker Index Player of the Year 2017 , he finished third behind Adrián Mateos and Bryn Kenney .

Since 2018: Jump to number 1 in the world rankings

At the beginning of February 2018, Chidwick won the third and fourth event of the US Poker Open at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas within two days with prize money of more than 750,000 US dollars. All in all, he got the paid places five times in the tournament series. With over 1.2 million US dollars, he secured the most prize money of all players and was therefore awarded the " US Poker Open Championship trophy ". In March 2018, Chidwick took sixth place at the Super High Roller Bowl China in Macau and received the equivalent of almost 1.3 million US dollars. In mid-April 2018 he finished second behind Jake Schindler in the € 100k Super High Roller of the partypoker Millions in Barcelona for € 1.1 million in prize money. Only a few days later, Chidwick reached the final table at the main event of the tournament series and received one million euros in prize money for his third place. Following these successes, he was in first place in the world poker rankings for the first time . At the end of May 2018, Chidwick finished seventh at the Super High Roller Bowl at Aria Resort & Casino and received $ 600,000 in prize money. At the 2018 WSOP , he finished sixth in the $ 100,000 high roller tournament, worth almost $ 485,000. In mid-December 2018, Chidwick reached the final table again at the Super High Roller Bowl and finished third, for which he received more than $ 1.5 million. In the ranking of the Global Poker Index Player of the Year 2018 , Chidwick finished second behind Alex Foxen at the end of the year . That year he was also one of five poker players to win more than $ 10 million in prize money.

In January 2019, Chidwick ousted Sam Trickett from number one on the British All Time Money List after three money placements at the PCA and the associated prize money of almost one million US dollars . In mid-February 2019, he won the first and sixth tournaments of the US Poker Open with bonuses of around 565,000 US dollars. With this, Chidwick collected the second-most points in the race for the US Poker Open Championship after David Peters and Sean Winter . In March 2019, Chidwick took second place in the Triton Refresh of the Triton Series in Jeju-do, South Korea and received the most prize money of more than 1.1 million US dollars due to a deal with Jason Koon . At the 2019 WSOP , Chidwick won the Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller and secured a bracelet in addition to the prize money of more than 1.6 million US dollars . Early August 2019 he reached the Triton Million for Charity in London , which has a buy-in of one million pounds world most expensive poker tournament, the final table and was awarded for his fourth place his highest ever prize money equivalent to nearly 5.5 million US dollars . He then reached three more final tables in the tournament series and secured prize money equivalent to more than one million US dollars. In December 2019, Chidwick won the Super High Roller at EPT Prague and secured a prize money of around 725,000 euros. At the end of the year he was named Player of the Year by Card Player Magazine .

At the end of January 2020, Chidwick achieved three money placements at the Australian Poker Open in Gold Coast and secured prize money of around 950,000 Australian dollars , in particular by winning the fifth tournament . With this he collected the most points of all players across all tournaments and won the Australian Poker Championship . In March 2020, Chidwick was named “Player's Choice for Toughest Opponent of the Year 2019” with a Global Poker Award .

Prize money overview

year	Prize money (in $ )	Tournament victories
2008	00.141,824	1
2009	00.00.2534	-
2010	00.049,748	-
2011	00.245,593	-
2012	00.588.463	-
2013	01,183,748	1
2014	01,039,431	-
2015	01,119,915	2
2016	02,137,997	2
2017	03,505,258	2
2018	10.197.347	6th
2019	13.146.265	6th
2020	01,029,526	1
total	34,387,646	21st

Web links

Commons : Stephen Chidwick  - Collection of Images

• Stephen Chidwick in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Stephen Chidwick in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• Stephen Chidwick in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)
• Stephen Chidwick in the database of Pocket Fives (English)

Individual evidence

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34. ↑ Super High Roller Bowl China (HK $ 2,000,000 + 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller Bowl) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 22, 2018 (English).
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