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Shawn Buchanan

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Shawn Buchanan, born on 6 July 1982, is a Canadian poker player from Vancouver, British Columbia, who won the World Poker Tour Mandalay Bay Poker Championship in 2007 for 768,775 dollars. He has recorded dozens of World Series of Poker cashes, 57 as of July 2019, including eight at the 2010 WSOP, and was among the leaders in the 2011 WSOP Player of the Year standings. In July 2019 he won his first WSOP bracelet in Event 76, the 800 dollar WSOP.com Online No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed event, beating David Baker heads-up for 223,119 dollars after three earlier runner-up finishes. By 2026 his recorded live earnings were about 7.48 million dollars from 219 cashes, which places him 14th on the Canadian all-time money list. He plays online as buck21 on PokerStars and won event 19 of the 2007 World Championship of Online Poker.

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is a Canadian poker player from Vancouver
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    (born July 6, 1982)
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    his total live tournament winnings exceed $7,100,000
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    is a Canadian poker player from Vancouver
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    poker player from Vancouver, British Columbia who won the World Poker To
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    Buchanan has recorded dozens of cashes at the World Series of Poker (57 as of July 2019), including eight at the 2010 WSOP and
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