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Pascal "Triple P" Perrault is a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 professional poker
Poker

Poker is a family of card game that share betting rules and usually List of poker hands. 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, who specialises in tournament
Poker tournament

A poker tournament is a tournament in which the winners are decided by playing poker, usually a particular style of poker.Contrast this to a ring game, where the game is ongoing with no formal structure to determine a single winner in a certain length of time....
 play. The nickname "Triple P" is short for Pascal "Poison" Perrault, a reference to his other profession as a pharmacist
Pharmacist

Pharmacists are health professionals who practice the science of pharmacy. In their traditional role, pharmacists typically take a request for medicines from a prescribing health care provider in the form of a medical prescription and dispense the medication to the patient and counsel them on the proper use and adverse effects of that medic...
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He first made the money in the World Series of Poker
World Series of Poker

The World Series of Poker is the "the oldest, largest, most prestigious, and most media-hyped gaming competition in the world". It is held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada....
 (WSOP) in 1998, where he made the final table of the $3,000 No Limit Hold-Em tournament and won $14,250 after outlasting opposition including "Gentleman" Liam Flood
Liam Flood

Liam Flood is an Irish people bookmaker and poker player.Together with Terry Rogers, Flood is credited with introducing Texas hold 'em to Europe....
 and Chris "Jesus" Ferguson
Chris Ferguson

Christopher 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 World Series of Poker, and is the winner of the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship....
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Pascal "Triple P" Perrault is a French
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 professional poker
Poker

Poker is a family of card game that share betting rules and usually List of poker hands. 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, who specialises in tournament
Poker tournament

A poker tournament is a tournament in which the winners are decided by playing poker, usually a particular style of poker.Contrast this to a ring game, where the game is ongoing with no formal structure to determine a single winner in a certain length of time....
 play. The nickname "Triple P" is short for Pascal "Poison" Perrault, a reference to his other profession as a pharmacist
Pharmacist

Pharmacists are health professionals who practice the science of pharmacy. In their traditional role, pharmacists typically take a request for medicines from a prescribing health care provider in the form of a medical prescription and dispense the medication to the patient and counsel them on the proper use and adverse effects of that medic...
.

He first made the money in the World Series of Poker
World Series of Poker

The World Series of Poker is the "the oldest, largest, most prestigious, and most media-hyped gaming competition in the world". It is held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada....
 (WSOP) in 1998, where he made the final table of the $3,000 No Limit Hold-Em tournament and won $14,250 after outlasting opposition including "Gentleman" Liam Flood
Liam Flood

Liam Flood is an Irish people bookmaker and poker player.Together with Terry Rogers, Flood is credited with introducing Texas hold 'em to Europe....
 and Chris "Jesus" Ferguson
Chris Ferguson

Christopher 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 World Series of Poker, and is the winner of the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship....
. The next year he finished on the final table again, outlasting the likes of Noel Furlong
Noel Furlong

J. 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....
 and Scotty Nguyen
Scotty Nguyen

Thuan "Scotty" Nguy?n is a Vietnamese American professional poker player who is a five time World Series of Poker WSOP bracelet winner, most notably as the winner of the 1998 World Series of Poker Main Event and the 2008 WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E....
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Soon after he entered into the Late Night Poker
Late Night Poker

Late Night Poker is a Great Britain television show in which poker players, mostly professionals or strong amateurs, compete in a short series of No-Limit Texas hold 'em tournament games for a prize of approximately ?50,000....
 television series, where he reached the semi-final in series 4 and the grand final in series 5.

He was voted Poker Personality of the Year in 2001 and was ranked #1 player in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 in the same year.

In March 2005 he won the Vienna event of the European Poker Tour
European Poker Tour

The Pokerstars.com European Poker Tour began in 2004 as part of the worldwide explosion in Texas Hold 'em popularity. It is a series of televised poker Poker tournament similar to those in the World Poker Tour ....
, taking home a €184,500 first prize.

Later, he made the Grand Final of the inaugural William Hill Poker Grand Prix
William Hill Poker Grand Prix

The William Hill Poker Grand Prix is a poker tournament sponsored by William Hill plc shown on Sky Sports. It features a number of professional and amateur poker players competing against each other....
, where he finished in 4th place.

His girlfriend is fellow player Lise "The Pink Lady" Vigezzi, with whom he has a daughter named Vegas.

As of 2008 his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,600,000.

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