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Who Was Anthony Zinno Before Becoming a Poker Star?

Who Was Anthony Zinno Before Becoming a Poker Star?

The global poker industry is full of professional players, who have achieved goals to become a billionaire or get the world-known trophy. This industry has fulfilled many dreams. But each poker player has his or her own path. Below you can read a story about Anthony Zinno, a poker star, who has left his significant contribution to the poker world. Check the latest poker news not to miss a new poker star.

The American poker player Anthony Zinno was born on August 13, 1981, in Cranston, Rhode Island. The biggest winning of his poker career is definitely 3 WPT titles and 2 WSOP bracelets.

In most cases, popular players were in the spheres, which have nothing in common with the poker industry, before the poker success. Zinno hasn’t become an exception. He is a chemical engineer (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) and a lawyer (Suffolk University Law School in Boston).

Anthony Zinno started his poker path in 2008 when he earned 205th place in the WSOP Main Event and his first winning was $38 600. In a few years, in 2013, he participated in the WPT and earned his first WPT title. The winning of $825 099 cost him a victory over 1189 other players and the famous Vanessa Selbst.

Incredible success of 2015

2015 became the most significant year for his poker career. A famous poker star Anthony Zinno won 2 WPT titles. The total number of times when he cashed at the 2015 WSOP was 5. And each time ended up with the final table. This year also gave him his first WSOP bracelet ever with a winning of $25 000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha.

After this big win, Mike Sexton, an American professional poker player and an author of “Life’s Gamble” bestseller book, reacted on Twitter, saying “Enjoy it. Your reign is over”.

In March 2015, Anthony earned a prize of $1 015 860 at $10 000 No-Limit Hold’em of LA Poker Classic (WPT).

The total sum of winnings of Anthony Zinno in 2015 is $5 million.

The biggest Anthony Zinno’s winning in 2021

A star of poker Anthony Zinno is also known by his nickname as Ant. He’s one of those poker players who are still active in the industry. Some of the poker legends are ghosting so fans have no idea where they are. But Zinno continues to achieve great goals and win the largest prizes.

He’s one of the few who can be named a purposeful and hardworking poker player.

DateEventBuy-inPlaceWinning
July 7, 2021$5 000 No-Limit Hold’em WPT $3 Million GTD (Palazzo)$5 00093$10 415
April 28, 2021$2 200 Pot-Limit Omaha Deep Stack$2 2001$68 732
May 1, 2021$1 000 No-Limit Hold’em$1 0001$25 200
June 14, 2021$1 600 No-Limit Hold’em MSPT $2 Million GTD (Palazzo)$1 60024$18 627

What is Zinno’s net worth?

According to his active participation at different poker tournaments, his net worth has noticeably increased during 2020-2021. Obviously, fans can only guess the exact net worth of Anthony Zinno, but there’s information that this number has already grown to $1-5 million in 2021.

Anthony Zinno’s public life

One of the most popular social platforms Instagram isn’t so much liked by the popular poker player. The only way to find some news about professional players and the updates of the industry is the poker sports news.

Zinno has an Instagram page, but the last video of two was posted in November 2019. Currently, the Instagram of Anthony Zinno isn’t active as a Twitter page as well. The last tweet was posted almost one year ago in November 2020.

He shared his thoughts on political issues, social life, and the poker industry.

Now the activity of Anthony Zinno on social networks is stopped, but fans hope that they will see him soon.

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