Andrew Chen

Born in 1988, Ontario native Andrew Chen is one of Canada’s most successful tournament players. His roots are in the online world, where Andrew began by playing MTTs on PokerStars under the screenname ‘achen’. Since his poker journey began in 2007, he has put together more than $2,100,000 playing tournaments online. His biggest prize in this setting came in 2011 when the Canadian finished runner-up in the prestigious Sunday Million for $155,533. In a field with more than 7,000 players, this sort of result and return on investment doesn’t happen often for poker players.

Andrew has also racked up a collection of remarkable live tournament scores as well. In terms of major titles won, he’s earned three: an NAPT trophy in 2011 and two EPT wins in 2014. The most notable of these was in the £10,000 No Limit Hold’em EPT High Roller, where he was awarded $627,647 for getting past an expectedly tough field. The likes of Sam Trickett, Ole Schemion and Adrian Mateos were no match for Chen as he cruised to victory and scooped his second largest tournament prize to date.

In terms of monetary significance, his biggest happened in 2012 when he finished runner-up at the EPT Berlin €5,000 Main Event for $801,391, losing out to a deserved winner in Davidi Kitai.

Andrew has enjoyed numerous other six-figure scores including two other EPT Main Event final-table finishes. Outside of these European events, the Canadian has had success at the WSOP as well as the WPT. Although he’s still not managed to wrap a bracelet around his wrist, he came extremely close when finishing second in the 2009 $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event for $412,632. Add a deep 2017 WPT Main Event run to this list, and Andrew Chen is closing on almost $5,000,000 in live tournament earnings across 79 cashes.