Chad Brown
Chad Brown is probably one of the luckiest men alive in the world today. He has a bit of a career on television and in some movies, he is a very good poker player, and he is married to one of poker’s most beautiful faces and smartest minds, professional player Vanessa Rousso. Of the three, though, he is known the most for his skill set in front of the different poker tables worldwide.
Chad Brown is a native New Yorker, having been born in Manhattan in 1961 and raised in the Bronx for the most part of his life. His first dream was not to be a professional poker player, but rather, he wanted to be an actor who will make it to Hollywood, and so in the early nineties, when he was already in his thirties, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue this dream. He had a tough time building a career in Hollywood, and so what he did to make ends meet was to play poker in various casinos in order to make money. It was not long before he realized how good he was at the game, and so he started taking poker more seriously.
He entered the professional poker tournament scene in 1993, when he joined the 24th Annual World Series of Poker. He finished quite well at eleventh place, taking home $6,624 and pretty much announcing his arrival at the poker scene. His first big win came after he appeared in some films and television shows though, when in 2002, he finished third at the World Series Of Poker’s Limit Omaha Hi/Lo event. He took home $45,400 for that said event. Two years later, he finished one place higher, finishing second at the same tournament, taking home more than $62,000. The biggest amount he has won for a single tournament is at $324,777, which he achieved at the 38th Annual World Series of Poker in 2007. He has had five first-place finishes and sixty-two money finishes, all amounting to over $2.8 million in winnings. You’d be lucky to be Chad Brown, surely.