Steve Gross

Steve Gross
Personal information
Date of birth	July 8, 1985
place of birth	Coral Springs
Nicknames 0	gboro780PokerStars & Full Tilt Poker MiguelPradoAbsolute poker
place of residence	Las Vegas
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	0.$ 488,817
Total prize money	$ 2,068,133
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	1
Cashes	42
Best main event	47th ( 2015 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	7th
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	2
Last updated: January 6, 2020

Steve Gross (born July 8, 1985 in Coral Springs , Florida ) is a professional American poker player .

Poker career

On-line

Gross played online from June 2006 to September 2013 under the nicknames gboro780 ( PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker ) and MiguelPrado (Absolute Poker) . He has more than six million in online tournaments dollars won. He secured his highest prize money in February 2009 by winning a tournament on Full Tilt for more than $ 275,000. From February 25 to August 11, 2009, Gross was number one for the first time in the PocketFives ranking for 24 weeks in a row , which lists the most successful online poker tournament players worldwide. Overall, Gross led the ranking four times and was at the top of the world rankings for 55 weeks, most recently in August 2010. Only Niklas Åstedt , Simon Mattsson and Cliff Josephy headed the list for longer .

live

Since 2004, Gross has also been taking part in renowned live tournaments .

At the beginning of November 2007, Gross finished second at a tournament at the World Poker Finals in Mashantucket for almost $ 100,000 in prize money. In June 2008 he was the first time in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas successful and came in three events of the variant No-Limit Hold'em in the money. In mid-January 2010 he won a PokerStars Caribbean Adventures tournament in the Bahamas with a bonus of around $ 135,000. In early March 2011, Gross reached the final table at the main event of the World Poker Tour in Los Angeles , finishing in fifth place for $ 304,000. At the 2013 WSOP , he won a Pot Limit Omaha tournament and with it a bracelet and almost $ 500,000 in prize money. A few days later, at the most expensive event on the WSOP tournament schedule, the High Roller for One Drop with a buy-in of $ 111,111, he secured the Mincash of more than $ 170,000. Two years later, Gross reached the sixth day of the tournament at the 2015 WSOP Main Event , where he was eliminated in 47th place for almost $ 140,000 in prize money.

Overall, Gross has earned more than two million dollars with poker in live tournaments.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Steve Gross turns up the heat on wsop.com from June 25, 2013, accessed on March 8, 2018 (English).
2. ↑ gboro780 in the PocketFives database, accessed March 8, 2018.
3. ↑ Hold'em No Limit in the PocketFives database, accessed on March 8, 2018.
4. ↑ # 1 Ranked Players in the PocketFives database, accessed March 8, 2018.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Steve Gross in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 8, 2018.
6. ↑ 2007 World Poker Finals ($ 2,800 + 200 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 8, 2018.
7. ↑ PCA - 2010 ($ 5,000 + 250 No Limit Hold'em - 6 Max) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 8, 2018.
8. ↑ 2011 LA Poker Classic ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - Championship Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 8, 2018.
9. ↑ 44th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2013 ($ 5,000 Pot Limit Omaha - 6 Handed (Event # 41)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 8, 2018 (English).
10. ↑ 44th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2013 ($ 111,111 No Limit Hold'em - One Drop High Roller (Event # 47)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 8, 2018.
11. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event (Event # 68)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 8, 2018.