Sam Greenwood

Sam Greenwood is a seasoned poker player from Canada. On October 11th, 1988, he was born in Toronto, Canada. He began playing online before becoming a very successful live tournament player, winning over $22.5 million in his career. In the $1,000 No Limit Hold’em competition in 2015, he already has one WSOP gold bracelet to his name. He had a strong showing in the Main Event in 2019, finally placing 45th overall out of 8,569 players and winning $212,000 in the process.

Greenwood has also participated in Triton’s live webcast, extremely high stakes cash games. A professional poker player is also his brother, Lucas Greenwood.

Sam Greenwood: Early Life

About Greenwood’s life before he discovered poker, despite the lack of information, all the data we gathered will be highlighted. All that is known about him is that he was a stock trader both before and after he began competing in high-stakes poker tournaments. He never intended for playing cards to be his primary source of money.

In fact, after receiving his first WSOP gold bracelet in 2015, he expressed the to pokernews.com that he is just a poker enthusiast and an entrepreneur and he likes to put his winning money in investments.

In October 2006, he began participating in tracked online tournaments. On PokerStars, he went by the glitzy pseudonym “Str8$$$Homey”. When he finished third in the $100K PCA high roller and took home a WSOP bracelet in 2015, he made a name for himself in the poker community.

Sam Greenwood: Poker Career Highlights

• In 2006, he debuted his career playing online MTT’s on PokerStars.
• He won his first WSOP gold bracelet in the $1,000 No Limit Hold’em event for $318,977.
• At Greenwood’s Hendon page, he’s on the top 25 for the famous all time money list with $22.534 million in career earnings.
• Early  2015, his breakthrough started when he finished sixth in the $100k High Roller at the PokerStars Carrribean Adventure in the Bahamas, earning $396,920. Poker legends including Bryn Kenney, Christoph Vogelsang, and the eventual champion Steve O’Dwyer were all part of that star-studded field. At the end of Day 1, Greenwood even held the chip lead.
• April of 2018, at the EPT Monte Carlo, he won the €100K Super High Roller for €1.52 million. That is his highest-ever score in a single live tournament. For the championship, he defeated German poker pro Vogelsang head-to-head. 
• He also won the €50K Super High Roller event for €1 million at PartyPoker LIVE in Madrid.
• Greenwood has also had tremendous success playing high stakes games at Triton Poker. He finished fourth in the HK$2,000,000 Triton Main Event for $1.472 million in Jeju, South Korea, in July 2018. He earned £902,000 after placing fifth in the £100K Main Event in London in August 2019. Additionally, he finished second in the HK$750,000 Short Deck competition at the 2019 Montenegro stop, earning a minimum of $1,095,625 for his efforts.

Conclusion

Sam has accumulated a sizable net worth because to his multiple live poker tournament winnings. Sam Greenwood’s net worth from his entire live earnings is $19,965,771, according to hendonmob.com. Just a few thousand dollars separate this amount from the $20 million USD mark. It is important to note that this sum only includes his live earnings. His earnings from playing online poker are not taken into consideration. As was previously indicated, he made roughly $6 million USD through the online poker platform; therefore, when this sum is added to the previous number, Sam Greenwood’s net worth exceeds $25 million USD.

Sam is one of the top earners in the world of poker as reflected by his net worth.