Robert Varkonyi Biography

Robert Varkonyi in a professional poker player. Robert first started playing poker when he was a student in college, as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he graduated with degrees in EECS in 1983. His career path was not direct, as he originally became an investment banker in New York for some time before he started playing in competitive poker tournament games. Robert Varkonyi's greatest accomplishment as a professional poker player was winning the main event of the 2002 World Series of Poker, where he took home the two million dollar prize. Robert Varkonyi has a total of three money finishes in his poker playing career, as well as one bracelet and appeared at one final table. Varkonyi played in the first ever Champions Invitational tournament in 2009, where he competed with 19 other former champions, where he finished second overall in the tournament, behind only the 1983 world champion Tom McEvoy.

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