Seat 8: Brian Green – 970,000
San Jose, Costa Rica native Brian Green is making the most of his first experience playing an APPT event. The 48-year-old businessman has been playing poker for 12 years and has amassed a career live earnings total of just over $650,000 USD.
In April of 2001, Green took down the $1,000 Limit Hold'em event at the Second Annual Jack Binion World Poker Open in Tunica. He won over $53,000 and beat a final table that included Dan Alspach and Ralph Perry. That seemed to ignite a series of solid cashes over the next several years. The next month, Green final tabled a $5,000 Limit Hold'em event at the WSOP where he placed third for just shy of $80,000. A year later in the same month, Green was back at another WSOP final table in the same event. He took second to Jennifer Harman this time for $106,200. Not a bad back-to-back run.
Winning a $1,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em event at the Bellagio Five Diamond Poker Classic netted him $53,544 in 2002 and then in 2006, he finished seventh in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure for $144,500. Overall, Green has cashed in five WSOP events and three EPT events.
Green is a self-proclaimed gym rat with a passion for cycling, and an even bigger passion for his three kids. Green enters Sunday’s final table with a very-healthy 970,000 in chips.
Bios courtesy of PokerStars