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Johnny Chan
- Name: Johnny Chan
- Nickname: The Orient Express
- Current Residence: Cerritos, Calif. & Las Vegas, Nev.
- Birth Date: 1957
- Birth Place: Canton, China
On any given day you can walk into the Bellagio in Las Vegas and see some of the world's best poker players in the "Big Game," including Doyle Brunson, Chip Reese, Jennifer Harman, Barry Greenstein and more. Among them, you may even recognize one of poker's first super stars, Johnny Chan.
Tossing around thousands and sometimes even hundreds of thousands of dollars is nothing for Chan. He's made more than $5 million dollars in tournament...
Read More >>Trivia
- Nicknamed "The Orient Express"
- Has won 10 WSOP gold bracelets
- Inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame, 2002
- Sits with a "lucky orange"
- Wears a diamond rattlesnake ring
- Married with six children and six houses
Recent Tournament Placings
Player Statistics
| Cashes | 46 |
|---|---|
| Total Winnings | $4,523,762 |
| First Place Finishes | 10 |
| WSOP Bracelets | 10 |
Player Analysis of Johnny Chan 
Description
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Johnny was the best No-Limit Hold'em tournament player in the world. Since then, he has used his tournament success as a vehicle to get himself involved in different business ventures. He is still a skilled player, but he plays very impatiently as if he is late for a meeting.
He used to be very weak at Limit poker, but he improved his Limit game significantly in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It is probably surprising that I listed Pot-Limit Omaha as his best game, but I am going by results, and his best results over the last few years in side games (and even in the WSOP) have been in Pot-Limit Omaha.
Best Game
Pot-Limit Omaha
Weakness
Not focused as much as he once was
Johnny Chan's Score
6.6/10
- Aggressiveness 6
- Looseness 4
- Limit 6
- No-Limit 8
- Side Games 7
- Steam Control 8
- Against Strong Players 7
- Tournaments 7
- Short-Handed 6
- Against Weak Players 7
Amusing Anecdote
Johnny is one of the few players whose superstitions seem to prevent him from steaming. If he loses a hand, he often asks for a deck change. If he loses with a certain dealer he often takes it personally, sometimes getting into it with him. If he keeps losing, he quits.
Once he said to me, "I've never lost more than two hands with the same deck and I've never lost more than three hands with the same dealer."

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