Poker Player meets Poker Presenter
He moved to Las Vegas in 1985. His advice to anyone considering playing poker for a living:
"You better LOVE the game. I don't mean 'like' to play, I mean 'love' to play."
More recently Mike gained celebrity status by co-hosting the World Poker Tour with Vince Van Patten on the Travel Channel. He has written for Cardplayer Magazine and Gambling Times.
Poker Superstar Mike Sexton
Tournament of Champions
If all this wasn't enough, Mike is known for being the founder of the Tournament of Champions of Poker. This unique event was held once a year, where any player that won a tournament during the previous year could compete. This field of champion players produced a "best of the best". Unfortunately, this terrific event only lasted three years. David Chiu, Spencer Sun and Brian Saltus were the three winners. "Yes. I definitely feel I'm a better player now by watching all the great players who play on the World Poker Tour. Ironically, even though I feel I've become a better player, I don't get to play much any more as I am not allowed to play in the WPT events."Mike's other poker accomplishments include winning the 2000 European Finals of Poker, the inaugural Foxwoods World Poker Finals $10,000 No Limit championship in 1992, the $5000 Four Queens Summer Classic No Limit championship in 1996, which he successfully defended in 1997, as well as winning the %u20AC5000 Heads-Up Championship in Paris in July 2003. In 2006, in a what comes around goes around fashion, Sexton won the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions and its $1,000,000 first prize.
Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey, Layne Flack, Howard Lederer and Phil Hellmuth Jr. are all terrific, sensational poker players. Erick Lindgren is another player to watch."
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Michael Richard Sextonbooks by Mike Sexton (born September 22 1947 in Shelby, Indiana) is an American professional poker player and commentator. He is a member of the Poker Hall of Fame.
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