Jake Cody

Jake Cody, born on 4 July 1988, is a professional poker player from Rochdale, England, United Kingdom. He entered the European tournament scene in 2010 with major wins at the European Poker Tour event in Deauville in January, where he won 857,000 euros, and the main event of the World Poker Tour London in August, for 273,783 pounds. He started his online career by depositing just 10 dollars and never made a further deposit, studied psychology at university before giving up his studies to play poker professionally, and puts his success down to hard work, regularly playing 12 hour days and discussing hands and strategy with fellow players. His career took off in January 2010 when he outlasted a field of 768 to take the 5,000 euro EPT Deauville Main Event. At the World Series of Poker he defeated Yevgeniy Timoshenko to win the 25,000 dollar Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em event, and at the 2011 WSOP Europe he finished seventh in the Main Event for 150,000 euros.