Poker Race Who will reach the finish line?

At an early and pretty dangerous age, Brad Booth started his career in playing poker by sneaking out of his parent’s house donning his Little Caesar’s uniform everyday to fund his nights in poker rooms. Leaving his school books in exchange for cards, he soon find himself scraping off every dough in his hand just to participate in limit games and reached the point where he has to hitchhike in roads just to get home. Nicknamed “Yukon Brad” after the place where he come from – the Yukon Territory in the great white north- he eventually went to break the news to his parents that he was dropping out of school but not until he got his ‘87 Sprint car as a birthday present.

He left his home with plans of moving to Abbotsford, British Columbia to play junior hockey and try to make a living in playing poker. Suffice to say, his planned did not push through after a run in with police officers who insisted that he get alternative schooling. The young Booth was enjoying so much freedom driving his car, getting inside casinos even with so little money in hand. But the death of his mother sent him back home mulling over his life. He eventually broke out and made a name for himself in the north playing in different poker events. His newfound success in cash games made him set his goal into joining tournaments in Vegas. His first major tournament was the 2005 World Series of Poker $5,000 Short-handed No Limit Hold’em event where he managed to came in 12th place earning a total of $17,000.

It was followed by a succession of victories in WPT Events such as the Festa al Lago IV and Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic events. But his biggest winning came in Mandalay Bay Poker Championships, a World Poker Tour No Limit Hold’em Main Event, when he came third overall taking home a total of $319,180 earnings. That victory was followed by other impressive wins so much so that the man from the Yukon Territory got the admiration of other pro players such as Phil Hellmuth constantly referring to his as “the best unknown player in the world”.