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Kevin Song

South Korean poker player

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Kevin Song was a South Korean poker player.

Kevin Song is a Korean-American professional poker player who started playing poker since 1980 and began playing in poker tournaments since 1994 where he has cashed in many of them throughout his poker career, among them are 39 cashes at the World Series of Poker including winning the 1997 World Series of Poker $2,000 buy-in Limit Hold'em event. Three years later he won his first bracelet in the $2,000 Limit Hold'em event at the 1997 World Series of Poker, earning $397,120 in a final table that included other professional players like Dan Heimiller, Erik Seidel, Huck Seed, Berry Johnston and John Esposito. He has two WSOP second-place finishes. The first was at the $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout event of the 2004 World Series of Poker where he finished runner-up to Kathy Liebert, earning $58,300. He came in second again at the 2018 WSOP in the $1,500 Limit Hold'em event.

World Series of Poker bracelets Year Event Prize Money 1997 $2,000 Limit Texas hold 'em $397,120

World Poker Tour Song has finished in the money six times at the World Poker Tour (WPT), including placing 9th in the 2003 L.A. Poker Classic and 10th at the 2006 WPT World Poker Challenge. winning the $2,000 No Limit Hold'em Championship Event at the 1999 Legends of Poker, earning $96,800, finishing in 3rd at the 2005 WSOP Circuit event at Harrah's Las Vegas, earning $110,638 that was won by Chris Ferguson, and Song won the $1,500 No Limit Hold'em event at the Fifth Annual Five Diamond World Poker Classic in 2006, earning $253,560.

As of 2023, his total live tournament winnings exceed $4,800,000.

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South Korean poker player

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Kevin Song was a poker player.

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Kevin Song was South Korean.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Kevin Song

· Wikidata: Q6397524

· DBpedia: Kevin Song

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