Alan Goehring (born February 21 1962) is a retired
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junk bond analyst and trader from
Henderson, NevadaHenderson is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States within the Las Vegas metropolitan area. It is the second largest city in Nevada, after Las Vegas, with an estimated population of 252,064 in the 2008 Census Bureau...
. At the age of 37, he became a professional
pokerPoker is a sport from the family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bets and how many rounds of betting are allowed...
player.
Goehring first made his mark on the poker circuit when he finished in 3rd place in the $3,000 No Limit Hold-Em event at the
1997 World Series of PokerThe 1997 World Series of Poker was held at Binion's Horseshoe. Most notably, it was the only WSOP where the main event took place outdoors, at the Fremont Street Experience, just outside of Binions...
(WSOP). He won $61,845 in the
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, which was won by
Max SternDr. Max Stern is a professional poker player, pediatrician and author.He is the coauthor of Championship Stud together with Tom McEvoy and Linda Johnson. Stern contributed to the sections on Seven-card stud and Seven Card Stud tournament and ring game play.Stern is considered to be a Texas hold...
and also featured
Kathy LiebertKathleen H. Liebert is an American professional poker player. She is the first woman ever to win a tournament with a first prize of $1,000,000.- Early life :...
,
Chris "Jesus" FergusonChristopher Philip Ferguson is an American professional poker player. In his career he has won five World Series of Poker bracelets, including the bracelet for the 2000 WSOP Main Event, and was the winner of the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.-Biography:Ferguson was born in Los...
,
Donnacha O'DeaDonnacha "The Don" O'Dea is an Irish professional poker player. Previously he was a keen swimmer, and represented Ireland in the 1968 Olympics. He was also the first Irish swimmer to swim 100m in less than 1 minute...
and
Dan HarringtonDan Harrington is a professional poker player. Harrington chose his own nickname "Action Dan" even though he is known for being a tight conservative player...
.
In
1999-Preliminary events:-Final table:-Other High Finishes:NB: This list is restricted to top 30 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry....
Goehring finished 2nd in the WSOP $10,000 No Limit Hold-Em Main Event to eventual winner
Noel FurlongJ. J. Furlong is a recreational poker player who won the 1999 World Series of Poker main event. He originally became a millionaire from his carpet manufacturing business...
.
Alan Goehring (born February 21 1962) is a retired
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
junk bond analyst and trader from
Henderson, NevadaHenderson is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States within the Las Vegas metropolitan area. It is the second largest city in Nevada, after Las Vegas, with an estimated population of 252,064 in the 2008 Census Bureau...
. At the age of 37, he became a professional
pokerPoker is a sport from the family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bets and how many rounds of betting are allowed...
player.
Goehring first made his mark on the poker circuit when he finished in 3rd place in the $3,000 No Limit Hold-Em event at the
1997 World Series of PokerThe 1997 World Series of Poker was held at Binion's Horseshoe. Most notably, it was the only WSOP where the main event took place outdoors, at the Fremont Street Experience, just outside of Binions...
(WSOP). He won $61,845 in the
tournamentA poker tournament is a tournament where players compete by playing poker. It can feature as few as two players playing on a single table , and as many as tens of thousands of players playing on thousands of tables...
, which was won by
Max SternDr. Max Stern is a professional poker player, pediatrician and author.He is the coauthor of Championship Stud together with Tom McEvoy and Linda Johnson. Stern contributed to the sections on Seven-card stud and Seven Card Stud tournament and ring game play.Stern is considered to be a Texas hold...
and also featured
Kathy LiebertKathleen H. Liebert is an American professional poker player. She is the first woman ever to win a tournament with a first prize of $1,000,000.- Early life :...
,
Chris "Jesus" FergusonChristopher Philip Ferguson is an American professional poker player. In his career he has won five World Series of Poker bracelets, including the bracelet for the 2000 WSOP Main Event, and was the winner of the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.-Biography:Ferguson was born in Los...
,
Donnacha O'DeaDonnacha "The Don" O'Dea is an Irish professional poker player. Previously he was a keen swimmer, and represented Ireland in the 1968 Olympics. He was also the first Irish swimmer to swim 100m in less than 1 minute...
and
Dan HarringtonDan Harrington is a professional poker player. Harrington chose his own nickname "Action Dan" even though he is known for being a tight conservative player...
.
In
1999-Preliminary events:-Final table:-Other High Finishes:NB: This list is restricted to top 30 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry....
Goehring finished 2nd in the WSOP $10,000 No Limit Hold-Em Main Event to eventual winner
Noel FurlongJ. J. Furlong is a recreational poker player who won the 1999 World Series of Poker main event. He originally became a millionaire from his carpet manufacturing business...
. He won $768,625 for his efforts. This finish, coupled with several other 2nd place finishes, including in Bellagio's Inaugural No Limit Hold-Em tournament, earned him a reputation as a player who "could not win the big one."
Goehring eventually overcame this status by winning the
World Poker TourThe World Poker Tour is a series of international poker tournaments featuring most of the world's professional players. It was started in the United States by attorney/television producer Steven Lipscomb, who now serves as CEO of WPT Enterprises , the firm that controls the World Poker Tour. In...
(WPT) $25,000 season 1 championship, overcoming
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n newcomer
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in the eventual heads-up confrontation to take home a $1,011,886 grand prize. The final table also included
Phil IveyPhillip D. Ivey is an American professional poker player who has won seven World Series of Poker bracelets and has a World Poker Tour title, making the final table there a record eight times. Currently listed as third in the world among all-time money winners in tournament poker after Daniel...
,
Doyle BrunsonDoyle F. Brunson is an American professional poker player who has played professionally for over 50 years. He is the first two-time World Series of Poker main event champion to win consecutively, a Poker Hall of Fame inductee, and the author of several highly influential books on poker.Brunson is...
and
Ted ForrestTed Forrest is an American professional poker player, currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada....
.
Goehring made two final tables in the WPT's
4th season- Mirage Poker Showdown:* Casino: The Mirage, Las Vegas * Buy-in: $10,000* 4-Day Event: May 23, 2005 to May 26, 2005* Number of Entries: 317* Total Prize Pool: $3,074,900* Number of Payouts: 27* Winning Hand: Q-Q...
. He finished 6th at the 2005 WPT €10,000 Grand Prix de Paris, eventually won by
Roland De WolfeRoland De Wolfe is an English professional poker player and a former writer for the poker magazine Inside Edge.After winning first prize in an event at the 2004 Gutshot Poker Festival, he went on to make a money finish in the $1,000 No Limit event of the 2005 World Series of Poker.In July 2005, he...
. He went on to win the LA Poker Classic later in the season, winning a WPT record-breaking $2,391,550.
Howard "The Professor" LedererHoward Henry Lederer , is a professional poker player and brother of poker professional Annie Duke, and author, poet Katy Lederer....
has repeatedly spoken positively about the quality of Goehring's play on his website.
As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $5,200,000. His 6 cashes at the WSOP account for $851,575 of those winnings.
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