Nazari Wins Poker Prize

January 21, 2009

Poorya Nazari, a 22 year old poker player from Richmond Hill has won one of the largest poker prizes outside of Las Vegas. Nazari has won $3 million in a poker prize, and many wonder what on Earth he is going to do with it. He is actually very new to the world of poker, although it has long been a hobby of his.

He has a biochemistry degree from McMaster University and has been playing poker since he was a sophomore in high school – although this is his first foray into online poker playing for any real money. He has always seemed like he had a penchant for playing poker and that he was gifted in both poker and math, and his mother says that he came easily to it.

He started playing online poker on PokerStars – which is easily one of the largest online poker playing sites out there today. He has been making enough money at poker playing over the last few years to be able to support himself without needing any kind of other outside job, so one can see that he was doing well at the game.

This years’ poker tournament brought in more than a thousand players and of those players 746 had done like Nazari and won their seat online as opposed to having to compete for it. He had qualified through a rebuy turbo tournament which lets you buy back into the poker game even if you have lost money.