Royal Flush Poker

Johnny Chan was born in China in 1957 and belonged to a family who were in the restaurant business. They moved to Texas when Johnny was a child, and had aspirations of him continuing the family business. By the age of 21 however, Johhny had different ideas and headed to Las Vegas after not completing his management training.

By 1985 Johhny managed to win his first World Series bracelet in the $1,000 Limit Holdem event and has gone on to amass ten bracelets to date, in Holdem, Omaha, 2-7 Draw, and Seven Card Stud. Two of these bracelets were the main event in both 1987 and 1988 and were it not for a young Phil Hellmuth defeating him when it got to heads up in 1989, he would have won an unprecedented three back to back main events.

His most recent bracelet came in 2005 and his estimated tournament earnings to date are over $6,000,000.
As well as being very adept at tournament play, Johnny is also an excellent cash player and one of the true legends of the modern game. He has appeared in and been very successful in, numerous televised tournaments and continues to compete in many major events each year.

Johnny has not added a WPT title to his collection as of yet, but it is surely only a matter of time before this changes. He also has a book published on poker strategy and writes regular poker columns for magazines.
Johnny is widely considered to be the greatest threat to Phil Hellmuths record haul of eleven World Series bracelets, and may yet draw level with him this year as he has so far enjoyed a strong start to this years ongoing World Series.