PokerNews · Jul 13, 2016
After Being “Burned Out” on Poker, Jeopardy Champ Alex Jacob Returns
Alex JacobAlex Jacob burst on to the poker scene in 2006, racking up more than $1.6 million in cashes in his first calendar year.
First, he came second to Victor Ramdin in the Foxwoods Poker Classic, a $10,000 World Poker Tour event, for $655,507. He made a couple of deep runs in the 2006 World Series of Poker for another $130,000. Finally, he won the United Stated Poker Championship, a $10,000 buy-in event at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, for $878,500.
The latter came after a memorable three-handed match with fellow 21-year-old Michael DeMichele and 22-year-old Jordan Morgan. At that point, Andrew Feldman of ESPN wrote that they would be “the new faces of poker for years to come.”