Sam Farha is a professional poker player. He was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1959. He is living right now in Houston, Texas.
Sam Farha managed to move to United States of America, right after the Civil War started in Lebanon. He initially settled in Wichita, Kansas, back in 1977, after that he attended the University of Kansas. He earned his degree in Business Administration, and moved out to Houston, Texas to look for better job opportunities along with his brother. He first started to play poker one year after he moved to Houston. After that he managed to win several thousand dollars and he quit his job in 1990 so that he could fully concentrate on playing poker as a professional player.
He is a proud WSOP bracelet winner. His greatest achievement was at the 2003 WSOP main event where he managed to finish 2nd to the famous professional poker player Chris Moneymaker, and won $1.3 million. During the 2nd day of that tournament he lost a major pot to Barry Greenstein, and he only had left 10% of the average stack size.
Sam Farha managed to win two important World Series of Poker events in 1996 - $2.5k Pot Limit Omaha, where the prize was $145k. And in 2006 he won the $5k Limit Omaha 8/b that left him with a large prize of $398,560.
Sam Farha is also a writer, and he is now preparing to launch his first book about poker, called: Luck is not enough. He is also working at a reality TV poker show and a video game, again about poker.
He is the spokesman of Harrah’s casino from Las Vegas. He was commented by some important poker figures as a player that is usually acting like he wants to call and right after that he will fold his hands.
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