Career
Madsen was raised in Los Angeles and lived in the same house until going to college at the University of California, Santa Barbara to study film theory. He now lives in Las Vegas. Madsen"s victory earned him $660,948.
Obrestad"s record cannot be broken in the Las Vegas WSOP because Nevada gaming law mandates a minimum age of 21.
Less than two weeks prior to his victory, Madsen finished third in the $2000 Omaha high-low split event, winning $97,552. A few days later he finished third in the $1000 Seven-card stud high low split event, earning $65,971, adding up to an unprecedented four top 3 finishes, in four different poker variants, in his first year at the WSOP. His showing prompted Full Tilt Poker to bring him in as a sponsored pro.
In 2007 Madsen cashed in his first WPT event, finishing eighth at the Bay 101 Shooting Star Championship. Madsen began playing casino poker three years before his WSOP victory at the Chumash Casino in Santa Ynez, California, where the minimum age to play is 18.
As of 2015, Madsen"s tournament winnings exceed $5,100,000.
His 44 cashes at the WSOP account for $ 2,798,043 of those winnings.