Ted Forrest (born September 24, 1964 in
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) is an
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player, currently residing in
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Forrest won three bracelets at the
1993 World Series of Poker-Preliminary events:-Main Event:There were 220 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter the tournament.-Final table:-Other High Finishes:NB: This list is restricted to top 30 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry....
(WSOP). After the mid-1990s, Forrest turned his attention full time to cash games. He made a triumphant return to the WSOP by winning 2 bracelets at the 2004 WSOP. Since then he has moved his focus from seven card stud to hold 'em with some success, including reaching 5 final tables on the
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and winning a championship on the
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.
Forrest is well known as a competitive high stakes gambler.
Ted Forrest (born September 24, 1964 in
Syracuse, New YorkSyracuse is a city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States, and the fifth most populous city in the state. At the 2000 census, the city population was 147,306, and its metropolitan area had a population of 732,117. It is the economic and educational hub of Central New...
) is an
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professional
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player, currently residing in
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,
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.
Forrest won three bracelets at the
1993 World Series of Poker-Preliminary events:-Main Event:There were 220 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter the tournament.-Final table:-Other High Finishes:NB: This list is restricted to top 30 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry....
(WSOP). After the mid-1990s, Forrest turned his attention full time to cash games. He made a triumphant return to the WSOP by winning 2 bracelets at the 2004 WSOP. Since then he has moved his focus from seven card stud to hold 'em with some success, including reaching 5 final tables on the
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and winning a championship on the
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.
Forrest is well known as a competitive high stakes gambler. He has been a key part of a consortium of poker players who pooled their money together to play Texas billionaire
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in a series of very high limit, heads-up, Texas Holdem games, with limits ranging anywhere from $20,000/$40,000 to $100,000/$200,000.
Forrest also participates in many proposition bets, such as betting
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$10,000 that
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's brother Leif could not run from L.A. to Las Vegas while only sleeping twice. (Ted claimed to have won this bet after Lief strained his Achilles' Tendon after 70 miles). His 'healthy disregard for money' that is so beneficial to his poker game also leads to reports that he has bankrolled losing players and invested imprudently in the past.
Forrest is generally regarded as one of the best stud players in the world. While not considered to be quite as formidable in Hold'Em as he is in various Stud games, Forrest has still won several hold'em tournaments in recent years.
Forrest competed in the second season of
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, where he advanced to the quarter-final stage. He did not fare as well in season three, being mathematically eliminated early in the preliminaries. He played in the first two seasons of the
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.
In March 2006, Forrest won the annual
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, defeating (in order)
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,
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, Ernie Dureck,
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,
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and
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to win the $500,000 first prize.
Continuing with his history of tournament success, in March 2007 Ted won the Bay 101 Shooting Stars Tournament, outlasting
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in the longest heads up duel in
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history. For the victory, Forrest collected the first prize of $1,125,000.
http://www.pokerlistings.com/poker-player-interviews/wpt/season5/victory-at-last-ted-forrest-is-champ-at-bay-101
As of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed $5,700,000. His 22 cashes as the WSOP account for $1,604,057 of those winnings.
World Series of Poker Bracelets
| Year |
Tournament |
Prize |
| 1993 -Preliminary events:-Main Event:There were 220 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter the tournament.-Final table:-Other High Finishes:NB: This list is restricted to top 30 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry....
|
$1,500 Seven Card Razz |
$78,400 |
| 1993 |
$1,500 Omaha 8 or better |
$120,000 |
| 1993 |
$5,000 Seven Card Stud |
$114,000 |
| 2004 The 2004 World Series of Poker was held at Binion's Horseshoe after Harrah's Entertainment purchased the casino and the rights to the tournament in January...
|
$1,500 Seven Card Stud |
$111,440 |
| 2004 |
$1,500 No Limit Hold'em |
$300,300 |
Forrest's first three bracelets were stolen. He gave one of the remaining two to his daughter; and has the other locked away. Ted also owns one WSOP championship bracelet that formerly belonged to
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, which he purchased from Dastmalchi after he (Dastmalchi) complained that the bracelet wasn't worth what the Binion family claimed.
Hamid told him, “They say it’s worth $5,000, but I’d take $1,500 for it” to which Forrest replied "Sold" and tossed him three $500 chips.
http://www.bluffmagazine.com/Magazine/2006_09_094.asp
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