It is not a fanatical Beatles fan or something in the direction. When he was a few years ago a new e-mail address, respectively, ran just randomly "Yellow Submarine" on the radio and Jeff simply said his year of birth added. When he is this e-mail address, respectively, had higher student certainly no idea that he will one day anywhere in the world under the name "Yellowsub known and would be determined at the time he also has not yet guessed how successful of poker, he will be – in a game, which he at that time only to change his fuel and money played. Within a few years he became a poker player from the change to the young millionaire and EPT champion. And unlike many of his colleagues, he made it, although he still studied.
Jeff Williams was in Atlanta, Georgia was born. During his primary school he moved with his family to Flint / Michigan and later moved to Scottsdale, Arizona. Later on he returned to his former home town of Atlanta, where the university to attend. During his first years at the university, he discovered his love of poker game. He and some friends played one night for their coins in the yard of Williams House. After having a few coins to games he had played on the chips around and played regularly each week. He began as a home game $ 5 buy-in cash game and was soon to become a $ 20 buy-in tournament. Very quickly he earned enough money with poker, for his pocket money to finance, enabling it to take its temporary abandon.
Later he made his first deposit at Party Poker. He lost his paid $ 50 and some other smaller payments rather quickly and eventually moved to PokerStars, where he practiced with play money. He won within a short time as much play money that he had this to Ebay for $ 25 could sell. He took this money and began to build a bank roll, but failed several times and had to order a new start. He played different poker variants, such as Limit Holdem, Stud and No Limit Holdem. In addition, he occasionally between cash games and tournaments and more tried to come forward.
Since he had excellent grades, he received a HOPE scholarship to the University of Georgia to visit, which he in 2005 with a degree in political science ended. During his first months at the university Williams had an extremely good run and earned in November 2005 alone, over $ 15,000. He bought a new monitor and climbed up to the cash game Level 5 $ -10 $ NLHE and secured by his simultaneous play at different tables at a very good income. After the rumors about his five-profits at the university have been getting louder, knocked his fellow students often to his room and hoped that he had them a few dollars at PokerStars would rüberschieben.
As a Williams second semester at the University of Georgia began, he took part in a 11 $ rebuy satellite part, in which a seat in a 650 $ satellite for the 2006 EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo could be won. He invested 41 $ in the rebuy tournament, which he eventually won. Almost he had forgotten that he had a seat in a 650 $ satellite had won, he will still play the last possible satellite and won under his screen name "Yellowsub86" a seat for the EPT Grand Final 2006 in Monte Carlo.
In Monte Carlo he made it his starting chip stack of 10,000 chips on the first day expand to 60,000 chips. He constant throughout the tournament among the top 5 in relation to the chip stack and was at the start of the Final Table third in the chip stack ranking. Williams parents were extra because of the Final Table flown to Monte Carlo and saw her son to be, as he read in the light of the TV cameras against PokerPros such as Marcel Luske, Ross Boatman and Marc Karam replayability. Williams overtaken its competitors and finally to the youngest ever EPT Champion award (Mike "Timex" McDonald replaced him last year as the new champion of recent ab). For his victory, the 19-year-old with a prize money of nearly 1.1 million U.S. dollars.
After he made Monte Carlo, as a poker millionaire after returning home, he still had to wait two years before he was old enough to legally in U.S. casinos to be able to play. He worked on it in his online career and played 10 $ -20 $ and 25 $ -50 $ NLHE cash games and started in online tournaments with high buy-in to play. Williams has won hundreds of thousands of dollars in online tournaments and led in November 2006, the Weekly PokerStars Tournament Leader Board to.
In the spring of 2008 Williams was finally 21 years old. In one of his first major U.S. live events, the 5000 $ No Limit Holdem event at the Bellagio Five Star Classic, he occupied the 4th place. In summer 2008, he took also the first time at the WSOP, and also sat right next to the $ 1,000 NLHE with rebuys at the Final Table. He succeeded in 2008, although not his first bracelet win, but took the 2nd place Michael Banducci, for which he is a prize in the amount of $ 400,000 received. But that was not all that he won the 20.Platz the $ 1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha event and the 34.Platz in another $ 1,000 No-Limit Holdem with rebuys event.
Jeff Williams now lives in Athens, Georgia, where he just graduated from the University of Georgia State. So far, he has in his career total of over 1.5 million U.S. dollars in poker tournaments won.
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