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Chip Jett: Best All-Round Player

The pro poker circuit has a long list of successful players, and Chip Jett is one of them. He is quite famous because of his propitious name and his performance in many of the pro circuit's high-profiled games. Jett's participations on the World Poker Tour at the Bicycle Casino and Party Poker Millions have made him synonymous to these main events. Chip Jett has accumulated more than $ 1.5 million in tournament winnings as of 2005.

Jett has been collecting awards and titles since 2001. Jett's biggest accomplishments include his Best All-around Player Award in the 2001 Los Angeles Poker Classic held at the Commerce Casino and being on Poker Digest's cover. Jett considers these achievements his proudest moments in poker. The succeeding years has brought Jett more accomplishments.

In 2003, Jett made it to the final tables fifteen times which earned him the Champion of the Year Award. This prestigious award is given to the player who holds the best record in high-profiled, large buy-in tournament in a single year. Jett came on 3rd t the 2005 $ 5000 7-card Stud event of the World Series of Poker. Chip Jett was born in Scottsdale, Arizona on September 22, 1974. He was just eighteen when he learned about poker. One of his pals invited him to check out the poker room in the newly-opened Fort McDowell Casino in Fountain Hills. He lost $ 40 that night but found himself wanting to pursue a career in the game of poker.

In order to learn more about poker, he enrolled in a poker dealer school and after three months, he was dealing and teaching poker at the same school. He got a job at Fort McDowell Casino, first as floorman and shift manager. Finally, he became a proposition player and kept the job for six years; giving him enough time to learn and become an expert on the game. He became famous as the town's most successful poker player and he was dubbed the "King of the Hill" for winning three times in the local tournaments. However, realizing that his skills are above the small-time tournaments, Chip Jett quit his job at the Fort McDowell Casino.

Chip Jett resides in Las Vegas, Nevada with his wife Katrina, who is an equally-successful poker player, and their daughter. The Jett couple landed at the same final table of the 2005 London Open Event held at the Old Billingsgate Market.