Prior to the 2004 WSOP, Coach was a regular poker player around Thousand Oaks, California and worked part-time at various poker tournaments around the city. "I saw light at the end of the tunnel when I got (heads-up against Pockat), but the light turned out to be a train."
Coach"s lifetime winnings exceed $83,000.
In 2004 he was a retired fire fighter and part-time poker tournament employee who won a bracelet in the Casino Employees Championship event at the World Series of Poker. At the 2004 WSOP, Coach was employed as a "Chip Runner." "To get to any final table, let alone the World Series, is an accomplishment that goes beyond anything else in poker," the Coach said.
Quotations: "To get to any final table, let alone the World Series, is an accomplishment that goes beyond anything else in poker,".
