Triple Crown (poker)
In poker, the term Triple Crown is used in three ways:
- One is for winning three different events in three days at the same venue.[citation needed]
- Another is for winning the WSOP Main Event, The Poker Players Championship, and WSOP Player of the Year in the same WSOP.
- The final and more commonly used is for winning all three of the following across an entire career:[1][2]
- Any bracelet at a World Series of Poker event;
- A Main Event on the World Poker Tour (WPT);
- A Main Event on the European Poker Tour (EPT, rebranded as the PokerStars Championship for 2017 only).
So far, only nine players have completed the Triple Crown: Gavin Griffin,[3][4] Roland De Wolfe,[5] Jake Cody,[6] Bertrand Grospellier,[7] Davidi Kitai,[8] Mohsin Charania,[9] ,[10] Niall Farrell[11] and Roberto Romanello.[12] In 2008, Griffin won his first World Poker Tour title, becoming the first to complete the feat.
On January 25, 2010, Cody won the EPT Deauville. He followed that up on September 4, 2010, Cody won the WPT London Poker Classic, and then, he completed the crown on June 4, 2011. It took him 1 year, 4 months, 11 days, which is the quickest of the nine.[13]
Triple Crown winners[]
Information correct as of July 2020.
| No | Player | WSOP bracelet(s) | WPT Main Event title(s) | EPT/PSC Main Event title(s) | Time span |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Gavin Griffin |
2004 | 2008 | 2007 | 3 years, 8 months, 17 days [14] |
| 2 |  Roland De Wolfe |
2009 | 2005 | 2006 | 3 years, 10 months, 17 days [15] |
| 3 | Jake Cody |
2011 | 2010 | 2010 | 1 year, 4 months, 11 days |
| 4 |  Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier |
2011, 2019 | 2008 | 2008 | 3 years, 5 months, 5 days [16] |
| 5 |  Davidi Kitai |
2008, 2013, 2014 | 2011 | 2012 | 3 years, 10 months [17] |
| 6 | Mohsin Charania |
2017 | 2013, 2014 | 2012 | 5 years, 2 months[18] |
| 7 | |
2017 | 2016 | 2010 | 7 years, 6 months |
| 8 | |
2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2 years, 1 month |
| 9 | Roberto Romanello |
2020 | 2011 | 2010 | 9 years, 7 months |
Kitai's WPT title was won in a 482 player invitational tournament.
Players one win away[]
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Without WSOP bracelet[]
Simon Brändström
Moritz Kranich
Andrey Pateychuk
David Rheem
Mike Watson
Without WPT Main Event title[]
Liv Boeree
Ognyan Dimov- Hossein Ensan
- Galen Hall
Rob Hollink
John Juanda- Manig Loeser
- Maxim Lykov
- Kevin MacPhee
Adrián Mateos- Jason Mercier
Dominik Panka- Carter Phillips
- Sebastian Ruthenberg
- Michael Tureniec
- Ram Vaswani
Without EPT/PSC Main Event title[]
- Daniel Alaei
- David "ODB" Baker
David Benyamine- Doyle Brunson
- Shawn Buchanan
- James Calderaro
- Brandon Cantu
Pete Chen
David Chiu- Scott Clements
- Hoyt Corkins
- Paul Darden
Freddy Deeb- James Dempsey
- Bill Edler
Eli Elezra- Antonio Esfandiari
- Kevin Eyster
- Dietrich Fast
- Layne Flack (died 2021)
- Ted Forrest
- Andy Frankenberger
- Prahlad Friedman
- John Gale (died 2019)
- Alan Goehring
Alexandre Gomes- Michael Gracz
- Barry Greenstein
- Anthony Gregg
Joe Hachem
Gus Hansen- Dan Harrington
Juha Helppi- John Hennigan
- Phil Ivey
- Theo Jørgensen
- Mel Judah
Eugene Katchalov
Phil Laak
Tuan Le- Mike Leah
- Howard Lederer
- Dylan Linde
- Erick Lindgren
- Pat Lyons
- James Mackey
- Michael Mizrachi
- Chris Moorman
Carlos Mortensen- Daniel Negreanu
- Scotty Nguyen
- Dominik Nitsche
Rocco Palumbo- Tyler Patterson
- Taylor Paur
- Nick Petrangelo
- John Phan
- Ryan Riess
- Ron Rose (died 2019)
- Christian Rudolph
- Ole Schemion
- Nick Schulman
- Noah Schwartz
- Erik Seidel
- Scott Seiver
- Mike Sexton (died 2020)
- Gavin Smith (died 2019)
- Keven Stammen
- Daniel Strelitz
- Ryan Tosoc
- J. C. Tran
- Dave Ulliott (died 2015)
- Craig Varnell
- Matthew Waxman
- David Williams
Sean Yu- Anthony Zinno
References[]
- ^ "Poker has crowned 5 Triple Crown winners; 55 more knocking on the door". . 2014-07-21. Retrieved 2015-06-11.
- ^ http://pokerbrave.com/ryan-riess-picks-up-second-leg-of-triple-crown-wins-wpt-seminole-hard-rock-poker-finale/
- ^ "Gavin Griffin". World Poker Tour.
- ^ "Gavin Griffin". World Series of Poker.
- ^ "Roland de Wolfe". The Hendon Mob.
- ^ "Jake Cody". The Hendon Mob.
- ^ "Bertrand Grospellier". The Hendon Mob.
- ^ "Davidi Katai". The Hendon Mob.
- ^ "Mohsin Charania". The Hendon Mob.
- ^ "Harrison Gimbel". The Hendon Mob.
- ^ "Niall Farrell". The Hendon Mob.
- ^ "Roberto Romanello". The Hendon Mob.
- ^ "WSOP: Jake Cody Nabs Heads-Up Bracelet and Triple Crown". Poker News. 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2015-06-11.
- ^ "Gavin Griffin Poker Results". Card Player. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
- ^ "Roland De Poker Results". Card Player. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
- ^ "Bertrand Grospellier Poker Results". Card Player. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
- ^ "Davidi Katai Poker Results". Card Player. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
- ^ "Mohsin Charania Poker Results". Card Player. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
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