Bill Gazes

Career

Gazes, whose ex-wife is fellow professional poker player Kristy Gazes, has been playing in live tournaments since 1993. Although he is without a World Series of (WSOP) bracelet or a World Tour (WPT) title, Gazes has cashed nine times in the WPT and over 25 times at the WSOP.

World Series of Poker

Gazes was noted for his appearance on the 2007 WSOP comical segment known as "The Nuts", in it after kicking a football in a field goal attempt during a prop bet between him and professional players Daniel Negreanu, Josh Arieh and Erick Lindgren, after having missed and fallen on his attempt, a female Entertainment and Sports Programming Network intern threw it towards him in order to return the ball in the field of play but instead Gazes was struck directly in the face by the football as he was lying on his back. World Tour

Gazes has cashed nine times at the WPT championship events, making two final tables.

His first was at the 2004 Los Angeles Other poker events

As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,200,000.

His 28 cashes as the WSOP account for $607,913 of those winnings.

Achievements

• Gazes"s largest cashes at the WSOP include coming in fourth in the 1997 WSOP $2,000 Number Limit Hold"em event, earning $46,150, a final table which included Ron Stanley (3rd) and "Miami" John Cernuto (winner), Gazes also cashed in the 2005 WSOP $1,500 Number Limit Hold"em event finishing third for $202,790 and was runner-up at the 2007 WSOP $5,000 H.O.R.S.E event, earning $153,408. Gazes won $500 Omaha Hi-Low event at the 1999 Legends of in Los Angeles, earning $21,800 and the $1,500 Number Limit Hold"em event in 2000 at the Carnivale of III in Las Vegas, earning $111,142.