Ted Forrest
Ted Forrest in 2006 World Series of Poker
Nickname(s)	Professor Backwards Spooky The Assassin The Suicide King
Hometown	Las Vegas, Nevada
World Series of Poker
Bracelet(s)	5
Money finishes	21
Highest ITM main event finish	408th, 2006
World Poker Tour
Titles	1
Final tables	4
Money finishes	7

Ted Forrest (born September 24, 1964 in Syracuse, New York) is an American professional poker player, currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... The 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) began on June 25, 2006 with satellite events, with regular play commencing on June 26 with the annual Casino Employee event, and the Tournament of Champions held on June 28 and 29. ... For further information, see Las Vegas metropolitan area and Las Vegas Strip. ... The WSOP logo The World Series of Poker is the most prestigious set of poker tournaments in the world. ... Non-Main Event gold bracelets given to the event winners during the 2005 WSOP The World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet is the biggest non-monetary prize a poker player can win. ... For a list of words Poker, see the Poker category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The following is a glossary of poker terms used in Wikipedia poker articles. ... The 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) began on June 25, 2006 with satellite events, with regular play commencing on June 26 with the annual Casino Employee event, and the Tournament of Champions held on June 28 and 29. ... The World Poker Tour (WPT) is a series of poker tournaments featuring most of the worlds professional players. ... is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ... Nickname: Location of Syracuse within the state of New York Coordinates: , City Government  - Mayor Matthew Driscoll (D) Area  - City 66. ... For the domestic fireplace tool, see fireplace poker. ... For further information, see Las Vegas metropolitan area and Las Vegas Strip. ... This article is about the U.S. State of Nevada. ...

Forrest won three bracelets at the 1993 World Series of Poker (WSOP). After the mid-1990s, Forrest turned his attention full time to cash games. He made a triumphant return to the WSOP by winning 2 bracelets at the 2004 WSOP. Since then he has moved his focus from seven card stud to hold 'em with some success, including reaching 3 final tables on the World Poker Tour and winning a championship on the Professional Poker Tour. The 1993 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was held at Binions Horseshoe. ... For the band, see 1990s (band). ... The 2004 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was held at Binions Horseshoe after Harrahs Entertainment purchased the casino and the rights to the tournament in January. ... Seven-card stud is a poker variant. ... Texas hold em (also holdem, holdem) is the most popular of the community card poker games as of 2006. ... The World Poker Tour (WPT) is a series of poker tournaments featuring most of the worlds professional players. ... The Professional Poker Tour (PPT) is a series of televised poker tournaments, spinning off from the World Poker Tour (WPT) television series. ...

Forrest is well known as a competitive high stakes gambler. He has been a key part of a consortium of poker players who pooled their money together to play Texas billionaire Andy Beal in a series of very high limit, heads-up, Texas Holdem games, with limits ranging anywhere from $20,000/$40,000 to $100,000/$200,000. Andrew Andy Beal (born 1952) is a Dallas, Texas-based businessman. ...

Forrest also participates in many proposition bets, such as betting John Hennigan $10,000 that Huck Seed's brother Leif could not run to L.A. from Las Vegas while only sleeping twice. ^{[citation needed]}His 'healthy disregard for money' that is so beneficial to his poker game also leads to reports that he has bankrolled losing players and invested imprudently in the past. ^{[citation needed]} John World Hennigan (born March 10) is an American professional poker player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Huckleberry (Huck) Seed (born 1969?) is an American professional poker player. ...

Forrest is generally regarded as one of the best stud players in the world. While not considered to be quite as formidable in Hold'Em as he is in various Stud games, Forrest has still won several hold'em tournaments in recent years.

Forrest competed in the second season of Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament, where he advanced to the quarter-final stage. He did not fare as well in season three, being mathematically eliminated early in the preliminaries. He played in the first two seasons of the GSN series High Stakes Poker. The Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament is a series of no limit Texas hold em poker tournaments. ... “GSN” redirects here. ... High Stakes Poker logo High Stakes Poker is a cash game poker television program broadcast by the cable television network GSN in the United States. ...

In March 2006, Forrest won the annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship, defeating (in order) Erik Seidel, Chad Brown, Ernie Dureck, Sam Farha, "Sheiky" Shahram Sheikhan and Chris Ferguson to win the $500,000 first prize. March 2006 : ← - January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Fijian Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase announces that the 2006 Fiji general elections will be held in the second week of May 2006 from the 6th to the 13th. ... The National Heads-Up Poker Championship is an annual poker tournament held in the United States. ... Erik Seidel (born in New York City) is an American professional poker player. ... Chad Brown (born in Manhattan, New York) is an American actor, poker player and commentator, based in Los Angeles, California. ... Ihsan (Sam) Farha (born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1959) is a professional poker player, based in Houston, Texas. ... Shawn Sheiky Sheikhan (born Shahram Sheikhan in Iran in 1969) is a professional poker player who currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with his wife and daughter, a tennis prodigy. ... Chris Jesus Ferguson (born April 11, 1963, in Los Angeles, CA) is a professional poker player. ...

Continuing with his history of tournament success, in March 2007 Ted won the Bay 101 Shooting Stars Tournament, outlasting J. J. Liu in the longest heads up duel in World Poker Tour history. For the victory, Forrest collected the first prize of $1,125,000.[1] March 2007 is the third month of the year. ... Joanne Jishung Liu (Traditional Chinese: 劉積順, Simplified Chinese: 刘积顺, Pinyin: Liú Jīshùn), mother of two teen age children, and a baby, known as J.J. Liu by her friends and fans, is a professional poker player. ... The World Poker Tour (WPT) is a series of poker tournaments featuring most of the worlds professional players. ...

As of 2007, his total live tournament winnings exceed $5,000,000.

World Series of Poker Bracelets

NB: Forrest's first three bracelets were stolen. He gave one of the remaining two to his daughter; and has the other locked away. Ted also owns one WSOP championship bracelet that formerly belonged to Hamid Dastmalchi, which he purchased from Dastmalchi after he (Dastmalchi) complained that the bracelet wasn't worth what the Binion family claimed. Hamid told him, “They say it’s worth $5,000, but I’d take $1,500 for it” to which Forrest replied "Sold" and tossed him three $500 chips. [2] The 1993 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was held at Binions Horseshoe. ... The 2004 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was held at Binions Horseshoe after Harrahs Entertainment purchased the casino and the rights to the tournament in January. ... Hamid Dastmalchi is a professional poker player. ...

External links

• Poker Babes profile
• Ted Forrest Fan site
• Hendon Mob tournament results