James Obst (born 3 August 1990) is a poker player from
Adelaide, Australia, and a
World Series of Poker
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bracelet winner. He attended St Peter's College in Adelaide.
Career
Obst was an accomplished junior
chess
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player, representing Australia three times at the
World Junior Chess Championship
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The idea was the brainchild of William Rits ...
. He began playing poker at the age of 14. He started with no-limit hold 'em in 2/4 cents and then tried
Stud Hi-Lo.
Under the name "Andy McLEOD" (a nod to former
Adelaide Crows footballer
Andrew McLeod), Obst has won four Spring Championship of Online Poker titles, a
World Championship of Online Poker title, and one
Full Tilt Online Poker Series tournament. By the age of 19, he had already won more than $1.5 million online.
Obst's first recorded live tournament cash came in 2009. At the WSOP, he has cashed 44 times and made 16 top-10 finishes. After twice finishing runner-up, Obst won his first bracelet in
2017
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Events January
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in the $10,000 Razz Championship, earning $265,000. His largest cash came from a 13th-place finish at the WSOP Main Event in
2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
for $427,930. In the 2024 WSOP, he won his second bracelet in the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship event.
As of June 2023, Obst's live earnings exceed US$3,137,000. His 44 WSOP cashes account for more than $2.2 million of those winnings.
World Series of Poker bracelets
Personal life
In his free time, Obst still plays chess, and he enjoys
tennis
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and
golf
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Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standa ...
.
References
External links
Card Player profileHendon Mob profileWPT profileWSOP profile
Australian poker players
World Series of Poker bracelet winners
1990 births
Living people
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