Steve Garfinkle is a professional poker player based in Bellingham, Washington. His live tournament earnings add up to a whopping $484,344. He bagged $7,418 as prize money in Event 28 No-Limit Hold’em at the 38th Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) on June 17, 2007. During this event, which was hosted by the Rio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, he secured fifty-eighth place and earned 11.7 Player of the Year (POY) points.
Just a month later in July 2007, Steve Garfinkle had an impressive tenth-place finish in the No-Limit Texas Hold’em World Championship at the 38th Annual WSOP. He added $476,926 to his bankroll and earned another 101.3 POY points for his strong performance in the event. When there were just ten other players left in the game, he had a chip stack worth $4,925,000. At one point during the game, Steve Garfinkle raised to half a million while Jon Kalmar, a professional poker player, called from the blind. When the flop came 2s 4s 3c, Jon Kalmar checked and Steve Garfinkle raised to 2.8 million. Jon Kalmer decided to call with his Ks Js, which gave him a flush draw. Steve Garfinkle, on the other hand, had pocket aces, and when Js came on the turn and Ac came on the river, he doubled up to about seven million in chips. He outlasted a field of 6,348 players to finish in tenth place and received a warm round of applause for his remarkable play. Though he did not win the event, his brilliant performance is a clear sign that bigger wins are ahead for Steve Garfinkle.
