New Zealand Poker
Poker is a global game. It’s popular on all over the world. Whether you’re playing in USA, United Kingdom, Russia or India, there’s famous poker players to watch out for. We’ve looked at the most famous poker players in the world before. But in this article, we will be looking some of the biggest names from New Zealand.
1) Lee Nelson
Arguably one of the most well known of New Zealand based poker players, Lee Nelson has earnt over $2,000,000 from live tournament poker. This retired doctor, originally born in United States, gained notoriety in 2005 when he won two events in the crown Australian Poker Championship. Lee is a force to be reckoned with. He even gains results in PLO and HORSE with a 6th place finish in a 2019 Aussie Millions HORSE event. He stands as number one in the all time money list for New Zealand.
2) Hamish Crawshaw
A Manawatu resident, Hamish Crawshaw is ranked 5th in the all time New Zealand Money List with over $1,000,000 live tournament winnings. This young man won a main event in the Asian Poker Tour earlier this year. He also won a WPT in Vietnam in 2019 besting a field of over 373 players. Hamish knows what he’s doing when it comes to tournaments. I expect him to see him at more final tables in the future.
3) Jan Suchanek
Jan is ranked 3rd on New Zealand all time money list. It’s no surprise as he’s been racking up live results since 2005. A 4th place finish in Aussie Millions HORSE event, a 4th place in WSOP 2019 6 max Limit Holdem and a 4th place in an Australia WSOP international circuit event at No Limit Holdem. These are just a few of his results in the last 2 years, highlighting why he makes our top 4.
4) Thomas Ward
Thomas is another on the all-time top 5 money list for New Zealand, with almost $1.1 million to his name. His best live cash is currently standing at $481,960. That was earnt in a 2015 Asia Pacific Poker Tour event where he came runner up to Jimmy Zhou. A quick search to see recent results show that he’s been playing the WSOP Online at GGPoker and finished 4th for a staggering $1,353,634 in a $5,000 No Limit Hold’em event. Clearly this man knows his way about online too so watch out if you’re on his table!
Conclusion on New Zealand Poker
There you have it, 4 of some of the biggest names to come out of New Zealand. As poker grows and online poker in NZ grows too, you can expect to see more faces emerge from New Zealand. This article has covered just a few poker faces from New Zealand, there’s other names making waves too. Special mentions go to Sosia Jiang, Simon Watt, Josh Egan and Jamil Dia. If you enjoyed this article and would like to see a piece dedicated to your home country, feel free to contact us at info@texasholdemquestions.com and we will see what we can do for you.
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