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Johnny Chan Born in Canton, China Johnny Chan has come to be known as the Oreint Express. At the age of nine his family moved to the United States to Houston Texas stopping in Phoenix and Hong Kong, but now a resident of Las Vegas, he's married with six children and six houses. "When I came to this country I spoke zero English
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In the whole school there was only one other Asian. The other kids tell you something, you don't know what they're talking about. Sometimes they laugh at you, and you don't know what they're laughing about. They yell at you and you don't know what they're yelling about. That was tough", Chan exclaims. The Orient Express," became an instant legend in winning back-to-back World Series championships in ‘87 and ‘88. He narrowly missed a "threepeat" the following year when he went heads-up with a young Phil Hellmuth and finished second when he busted out against Hellmuth's pocket nines. Had he won, Jerry Buss, owner of the Los Angeles Lakers offered Chan an NBA championship ring for a three-peat. Aside from his near three peat finish he has also has 8th place $15,000 No Limit Hold'em 2004 Five-Diamond World Poker Classic, Las Vegas as well as 1st place $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha 2003 World Series of Poker, Las Vegas and 1st place $5,000 No Limit Hold'em 2003 World Series of Poker, Las Vegas among others. As Johnny Chan says 'There's Always Another Game Tomorrow' Why always? He just didn’t know when to quit. When he learned it – he began to play much better. Doyle Brunson said: "Now he's the youngest great poker player. The rest of us are fading out, and he's just coming in Amarillo Slim Carlos Mortenson Daniel Negreanu Doyle Brunson Gus Hanson |
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