Poker pro secures one of WSOP's quickest wins

Name: Shaun Deeb
Birthplace: Troy, NY
Age: 30
Current Residence: Las Vegas, NV / Troy, NY
Marital Status: Married
Children: 1
Profession: Professional Poker Player
Number of WSOP Cashes: 35
Number of WSOP Final Table Appearances: 8
Number of WSOP Gold Bracelet Victories (with this tournament): 2
Best Previous WSOP Finish: 1st (2015)
Total WSOP Earnings: $1,291,842
Personal Facts: Widely regarded as one of the top Chinese Poker players in the world

Winning a gold bracelet at the World Series of Poker is supposed to be difficult. It's supposed to be a crowning achievement in the course of every poker player's life. Victory is supposed to be an exhaustive collapse over the finish line.

For Shaun Deeb, he made winning a gold bracelet look like child's play.

In one of the quickest Seven-Card Stud final tables in memory, the Upstate New York poker pro had everything go his way from start to finish, in what ended up as his second WSOP victory.

Deeb won the $1,500 buy-in Seven-Card Stud tournament, which was played over three days and nights and concluded at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Deeb collected $111,101 in prize money, which is but one of several six-figure wins of his career, or in other words – about what he makes in a typical session of Open-Face Chinese Poker, a game for which he's developed a reputation as one of the world's best.