About Simon Trumper

Name	Simon Trumper
Current Residence	Guilford, UK
Born	Mar. 31, 1963
Birth Place	South Kensington London, UK

Those who know poker strictly from watching the World Series of Poker or World Poker Tour events will likely draw a blank when presented with Simon "Aces" Trumper. Aside from a fifth place finish in the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha tournament at the 2005 WSOP, the Guildford, U.K. resident has not had much success on American soil. Europe, however, is another matter; whether in England or on the continent, when "Aces" sits down at a table the whole room takes notice.

Simon Trumper was born in South Kensington, England on May 31, 1963. Although he waited until the age of 32 to try poker, the first signs of his future success came in secondary school, when, after being the first in his classroom to finish a mathematics exam, he began playing poker dice on a chair and was promptly expelled. Undaunted by the setback, Trumper entered the business world and achieved great success before, in 1995, he was invited by a friend to enter a

Trivia

• Most successful player on the "Late Night Poker" series
• Finished first, second, third and fourth in the four events of the 1997 European Championships
• Ranked No. 4 overall in Europe in 2001 and No. 2 in No-Limit Hold'em
• Suffers from alopecia, a disease causing hair loss
• Is Live Poker Director of Dusk Till Dawn, Europe's largest poker club in Nottingham, U.K.