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...

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

Tournament	Place	Winnings
2008 WSOP, Event 28, Pot-Limit Omaha w/Rebuys	4th	$246,874
2008 WSOP, Event 8, World Championship Mixed Event	13th	$27,072
2007 WSOP, Event 23, Pot-Limit Omaha	20th	$5,504
2007 WSOP, Event 11, World Championship 7-Card Stud	18th	$8,460
2007 WSOP, Event 1, World Championship Mixed Hold'em...	31st	$13,778
2007 Special, Wynn Classic	8th	$38,412
2006 WSOP, Event 10, Seven-Card Stud	7th	$22,836
2006 WSOP, Event 6, No-Limit Hold'em	84th	$5,239
2005 WSOP, Event 25, $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em	1st	$303,025
2004 WSOP, Event 30, No-Limit Hold'em	29th	$6,280
2003 WSOP, $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em	1st	$224,400
2002 WSOP, $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em - Gold Bracelet Matchplay	1st	$34,000
2000 WSOP, $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha	1st	$179,400
1994 WSOP, $1,500 Seven-Card Stud	1st	$135,600
1989 WSOP, Event 14, World Championship No-Limit Texas...	2nd	$302,000
1985 WSOP, $1,000 Limit Hold'em	1st	$171,000
1997 WSOP, $5,000 No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven Draw	1st	$164,250

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Player Statistics

Cashes	20
Total Winnings	$3,238,380
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

Agressiveness 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."

Analysis brought to you by Barry Greenstein