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Hasan Habib

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Hasan Habib, born 19 April 1962 in Karachi, Pakistan, is a Pakistani American professional poker player. As a boy he was the Pakistan 14-and-under national tennis champion, and he moved to the United States at 18 to study business at the University of Redlands. He began playing casino poker in 1985 and finished second in the 2004 World Poker Tour 25,000 dollar Championship for 1,372,223 dollars, then third in the same event in 2005. He won a World Series of Poker bracelet in the 1,500 dollar Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split event in 2004 and took fourth in the 2000 Main Event. By 2015 his live tournament winnings exceeded 5,500,000 dollars, including 25 WSOP cashes.

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Birth Year
1962 1
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World Series of Poker, Competitions
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Hasan Habib (born 19 April 1962 in Karachi, Pakistan) is a Pakistani American professional poker player.
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Hasan Habib (born 19 April 1962 in Karachi, Pakistan) is a Pakistani American professional poker player.
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1. Hasan Habib (Wikipedia)
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    (born 19 April 1962 in Karachi, Pakistan)
  • Lead paragraph, competition results
    In 2004, he finished second to Martin de Knijff in the World Poker Tour (WPT) $25,000 Championship, receiving a $1,372,223 prize.
  • Competed In: World Series of Poker, lead paragraph, competed-in
    As of 2015, he has cashed twenty-five times in the World Series of Poker (WSOP), including a 2nd-place finish in $2,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split event in 2000, and a 4th-place finish in the $10,000 no limit Texas hold 'em Main Event in the same year, for which he took home $326,000.
  • Plays: Poker, Lead sentence
    is a Pakistani American professional poker player.
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