James Gorham is a professional poker player from San Diego, but now lives in Vista, California, USA. He is mostly an online player and spends 20 to 30 hours a week in online poker games. Besides that, he is also a student in the University of California, Los Angeles. He paid his way through college by playing and has earned some money to help him pay for all of his World Series of Poker entries. So is there a difference between WSOP tournaments and online action?
James Gorham says that it is basically the same thing but what you have to adapt to is the amount of patience that is involved because tournaments happen a lot quicker online. A live scenario where you have dealers, dinner breaks and slower blind structures means that a lot of it demands patience.
Despite that, however, James Gorham won the World Series of Poker Tournament on July 25 2006, taking the amazing tournament prize of $765,226. In the final day he eliminated Osman Kabir and won the championship, along with a gold bracelet. Not bad, considering that before that event he had never even cashed in a World Series of Poker event.
Just a few months earlier, there was another game he participated in, where he fininshed 3rd. That was in the Los Angeles Poker Classic, World Poker Tour in February, 2006, earning the prize of $22,000. Later in years, he kept playing both live and online, still mastering his skills and struggling for his next big prize. So far, as of 2008, his total tournament earnings exceed $850,000.
