Gavin Griffin

Gavin Griffin ( born August 28, 1981 in Illinois) is an American professional poker player.

Griffin began on the internet to play poker and made ​​the successful leap to live poker.

It was founded in 2004 on his first professional tournament 's youngest winner of the World Series of Poker bracelets. He made the final table Phil Hellmuth and Ram Vaswani behind and won $ 270,000 in the variant Pot Limit Texas Hold'em.

By the third place in a World Series of Poker Circuit tournaments in San Diego in February 2007, he had achieved three years only average results.

However, in March 2007 he managed to win at the season finale of the European Poker Tour. In Monaco, he had 705 players behind and won 2.5 million dollars. At the final table, among others, Andy Black, Marcel Sabatowski, Tim Janik, Hendrik hen and Ram Vaswani.

He played the entire tournament with pink hair to draw attention to a fundraiser. At a charity event during the tournament in Monaco, he joined with PokerStars.com an agreement that his fundraiser will continue to be supported, if he continues with pink dyed hair playing poker tournaments.

In addition, Griffin won the " WPT Borgata Poker Classic". For the 26 -year-olds, there was the grand prize: $ 1,401,109, a seat at the WPT final at the Bellagio and of course the Harley. The final table was sitting among others, the American professional poker player David Tran. With his victory, Griffin became the first player who was able to secure the tournament title in all three major tournament series ( WSOP, EPT and WPT ).

Currently are its revenue at over $ 4.9 million by official poker tournaments.

From April 2008 to May 2010 on, he plays for the Team PokerStars Pro.