Alex Brenes

Name: Alex Brenes
Current Residence: Miami, Fla.
Birth Place: Costa Rica

Alex Brenes' family seems to have a strong poker gene; when he made a WPT final table, he was following in the footsteps of his brothers Eric and Humberto. Alex also triumphed at the L.A. Poker Classic in February, 2005, where he won both $100,000 and a $25,000 buy-in to the WPT World Championship at the Bellagio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
Alex was a participant in a recent PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, where teams from several different nations played. An observer says that whenever two players went all-in, their respective teams would hasten tableside and cheer their man on. Alex Brenes was especially vocal; when a Costa Rican player was drawing, he'd begin a chant of the cards the player needed: "Nine! Eight! Heart!" It got to the point where a South African player, half in jest, asked the Costa Ricans to quit putting voodoo on the flop. The Costa Ricans won the tournament.

Trivia

Member of a virtual Costa Rican poker dynasty together with his brothers Eric and Humberto

Notable Tournament Cashes

Tournament	Place	Winnings
2008 Special, LAPT Punta del Este	2nd	$127,675
2007 WSOP, Event 31, World Championship Heads-Up No-Limit...	39th	$9,212
2006 WSOP, Event 31, No-Limit Hold'em	43rd	$9,328
2006 WSOP, Event 29, Pot-Limit Hold'em	19th	$6,463
2006 WSOP, Event 22, No-Limit Hold'em	27th	$17,243
WPT Season 3, WPT Invitational	1st	$100,000
2004 WSOP, Event 33, World Championship No-Limit Texas...	197th	$10,000
2003 WSOP, Event 15, No-Limit Hold'em	14th	$8,300
1997 WSOP, Event 15, Pot-Limit Hold'em	17th	$4,080
1994 WSOP, Event 17, $1,500 Limit Seven-Card Stud	13th	$3,390
1999 WSOP, Event 11, No-Limit Hold'em	2nd	$136,325
2001 WSOP, Event 10, Limit Hold'em	2nd	$111,745
1994 WSOP, Event 15, $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em	6th	$14,263
1996 WSOP, Event 19, Pot-Limit Hold'em	13th	$4,500
1995 WSOP, Event 17, Limit Seven-Card Stud	15th	$3,500
1997 WSOP, Event 17, No-Limit Hold'em	16th	$5,208
2000 WSOP, Event 18, Pot-Limit Hold'em	17th	$4,800
1999 WSOP, Event 13, No-Limit Hold'em	18th	$5,500
1995 WSOP, Event 10, Pot-Limit Hold'em	19th	$1,980
1998 WSOP, Event 7, No-Limit Hold'em	19th	$4,200
2001 WSOP, World Series of Poker Main Event - 2001	23rd	$39,960
2000 WSOP, Event 10, Pot-Limit Hold'em	24th	$2,820