Jeff Sarwer is a
former chess child prodigy, who learnt to master the game by playing
against himself and once in a while simultaneously against up to 40
other players. Jeff disappeared from the public eye amid a cloud of
controversy by the age of 11. In late 2008 Jeff found a new challenge in
poker and started playing regularly on the European circuit and already
on his first active year on the tour, season 6 of EPT, he was nominated
for EPT Achievement of the Year and EPT Players Choice Award 2010. EPT
Season 6 highlights include a 10th place in EPT Warsaw, a 3rd place at EPT Vilamoura and a 2nd place in the EPT Berlin 10k event. To date, Jeff has 6 EPT cashes and over $500,000 in tournament winnings. Poker
Icons was my clear choice when I was contemplating getting myself an
agent and I believe that this will take my poker career to the next
level! – says Jeff Sarwer. Jeff
also played in his first World Series of Poker in 2010 and cashed in 3
events, which included a narrowly missed final table in the 1.5k NL
Shootout event. We
are very excited to finally have signed Jeff. This has been a target
for us since EPT Vilamoura last year, I’m sure he will be the next big
star within the poker world and with the right sponsor Jeff will be a
great face and representative due to his very interesting background and
major media interest surrounding him at all times – says Lars Kollind, Poker Icons Apart
from traveling on the poker circuit, Jeff spends most of his time in
Europe and he has been involved in the Polish real estate business.
There is also an on-going movie project about Jeff`s extremely
interesting and unique life story. Click here for a link to Jeff’s bio on the Poker Icons webpage |
