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Gavin Griffin and the breast cancer

Published on January 11, 2011 by kkroz   ·   No Comments

In the next two years, the young Gavin had a lot of good tournament, he cashed in many important events, ending in few final tables, including 3 World Series of Poker cashes, a final table in the WSOP circuit and 2 incredible final tables at the Bellagio. Another turn in the life of Gavin Griffin was the year 2007 and the European Poker Tour in Monte Carlo, the most important event in Europe.

Against cancer: Gavin Griffin

He went to the tournament showing embarrassing pink hair, this wasn’t the result of a drunken bet or something like that, he choose this color to bring attention to a serious problem, the breast cancer. His girlfriend Kristen had this disease only few years ago and she won the challenge, but many people are still in trouble with this tremendous problem.
Griffin finally got the title facing Marc Karam in the heads up earning about $2.4 millions, a huge amount of cash which was the most impressive prize awarded in an event outside the United States.
During that lucky year Gavin cashed 3 times at the WSOP and also arrived to the final table in the $5,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Hold’em tournament, where he ended in 7th place. When the World Series ended he spent a lot of time raising founds for the fight against breast cancer with Kristen. They went to the 40 mile Aven Walk for Breast Cancer in Long Beach, California.
In 2008 he completed the “Triple Crown” winning the World Poker Tour Borgata Open defeating 507 players during the Main Event, in the final table he faced: David Tran, Lee Watkinson and Noah Schwartz. In the end Gavin won $1.4 millions.
Before his 30th birthday he has already won almost 4.5millions Dollars. After few months he was signed by Team PokerStars Pro. Gavin Griffin loves cinema and when he is not around the world playing poker he likes to see movies and collect DVD, he has over 600 different titles in his collection. He is a good cook and he likes to cook for his girlfriend. They live in Los Angeles together. Gavin plays online almost 20 hours a week on PokerStars, not to much for a big champion like he is.
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