Patrick Bruel

Patrick Bruel, born Patrick Benguigui on 14 May 1959 in Tlemcen, Algeria, is a French singer-songwriter, actor and professional poker player. His family emigrated to France in June 1962, just before Algerian independence, and he built his public career first as an actor, with Le Coup de sirocco in 1979, and then as a singer, his 2002 double CD of classic chanson, Entre Deux, selling two million copies. In poker he is described as a world-class professional who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 1998 in the 5,000 dollar Limit Hold'em event, and by 2009 he had earned more than 900,000 dollars in tournament play, 411,659 dollars of it from ten WSOP cashes. In 2005 he began commentating on the World Poker Tour for Canal+ in France.