Diego Cordovez

Diego Cordovez, born in 1965 in New York City, is an American poker player and the only son of the former United Nations Under-Secretary-General of the same name. He has won one World Series of Poker bracelet and has 16 WSOP cashes, including seven final tables, with career tournament winnings of over 1.4 million dollars and 613,847 dollars from the WSOP. He claims to have been introduced to poker by his first-grade teacher as a way of making basic math seem like fun. At the 2000 World Series of Poker he won the 2,000 dollar no limit Texas hold 'em event, earning more than 290,000 dollars and a bracelet, beating English bracelet winner Dave Ulliott heads-up at a final table that included Phil Ivey, David Pham and Toto Leonidas. In 2002 he cashed in four more WSOP events and finished second to Phil Ivey in the 2,000 dollar SHOE event, and he also won the limit Holdem championship at the Los Angeles Poker Open, the largest limit Holdem tournament in history, for 569,430 dollars.