It seems as if poker players keep getting younger and younger, beating each other out for the title of the youngest player to ever win a WSOP bracelet by mere days past their 21st birthdays. Here are the 7 youngest players to ever hold the record of youngest player to win a bracelet or youngest player to win the WSOP Main Event Championship.
#7 Gavin Griffin
Gavin Griffin became the youngest WSOP winner in history in 2004 when he stole the title from Phil Hellmuth, who would still reign as the youngest player to win the WSOP Main Event until 2008.
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A remarkable phenomenon that lies beneath the surface of the booming poker industry is the fact that a percentage of the professional poker community comes from another card game, Magic: The Gathering, also referred to as M:TG. Interestingly enough, one of the most unknown sports, or card games, provides poker with some of its most successful young players. While the age demographic, and gender for that matter, of professional poker has changed over the last decade or so, a great deal of the young men who take up poker as a career have spent at least half of their life playing a game called Magic: The Gathering.
The reasons that M:TG players are so successful at poker lie within the parallels of the way the two games are played. First of all, Magic players in general are exceptionally good at mentally calculating numbers, a skill that would prove to be very useful in cards, specifically poker.
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