Chris Brewer

The Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas hosted the opening ceremonies for the 54th World Series of Poker (WSOP), which has been making headlines ever since. Chris Brewer stole the show at the WSOP 2023 when he won in a $250,000 High Roller. Let’s look more into Brewer while looking into his poker career, early life, and life before his impressive achievement.

Chris Brewer: Early Life

Christopher Brewer AKA Chris Brewer was born in 1993. He is a San Diego, California-based American professional poker player. He competed in the 5,000-meter race for eighth place at the 2010 state championship while a track and field athlete at Rancho Buena Vista High School. Additionally, he recorded the state’s top 1,600 meter time in the same year.

He later enrolled at Oregon, where he competed in track and field. In 2013, he earned honorable mention for the Pac-12 team and placed 55th in the 8,000-meter race. He was a former distance runner for the University of Oregon Ducks track and field team, which won the national championship 31 times. In fact, he participated in his first poker hand while watching the 2012 Olympic Trials.

Chris Brewer: Poker Career

Chris Brewer began playing poker in 2015, making his first appearance at the $1,100 No Limit Hold’em #37 Deep Stack Extravaganza III in Las Vegas. He participated in Event #45 of the 46th World Series of Poker, a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em game, that same year, marking his debut in the tournament.

After winning his first tournament in 2015, Brewer continued to play in a lot more high-stakes games, and now is frequently spotted at Triton Poker tournaments and the PokerGO studio.

Over the years, Chris Brewer has excelled and developed, and in 2021, he accomplished a feat that’s worth noting. He received a massive $427,500 payout for winning the Poker Masters $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em tournament.

In the WSOP 2021, he also placed fifth in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship, earning $211,235. His purple streak continued in 2022 as well, as he took first place in the €20,000 No-Limit Short Deck event at the Triton Poker Series Madrid, earning $387,209.

Chris Brewer finally succeeded after many attempts at doing so on the biggest stage imaginable. He took home $5,293,556 after winning the $250,000 High Roller event to earn his first WSOP title.

He has over $16 Million in career tournament winnings and a GPI ranking of nine as of August 2023. With many tournaments scheduled to follow at the WSOP 2023, it will be interesting to see how he performs moving forward after earning $16,615,634 so far.

Conclusion

In addition to grinding cash games, Brewer has started to participate in more tournaments. While he first dipped his toes into the high-stakes tournament world online, he managed to find plenty of success in the few higher buy-in events held since live tournaments have started to resume after the shutdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. He put together some deep runs in big events during this year’s World Series of Poker Online.