Chris Bigler

Chris Bigler (born February 11, 1949 in Zurich) is a Swiss retired businessman and poker player.

Chris Bigler
Bigler after winning the 2005 Mirage Poker Showdown.
ResidenceLas Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
BornFebruary 11, 1949 (1949-02-11) (age 71)
Zurich, Switzerland
World Series of Poker
Bracelet(s)None
Money finish(es)6
Highest ITM
Main Event finish		5th, 1999
World Poker Tour
Title(s)None
Final table(s)2
Money finish(es)8

Bigler began playing poker in 1997 on a trip to Las Vegas and studied the game. He made the final table of the 1999 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 no limit hold'em main event, earning $212,420 for his 5th-place finish. He is the only Swiss player to have made the final table of the WSOP main event.

Bigler also made two final tables during the first season of the World Poker Tour (WPT), finishing 5th during the inaugural WPT event, and runner-up to Paul Darden in the Gold Rush event.

In addition, he has finished 2nd in two events of the Professional Poker Tour (PPT) and was a quarter-finalist in the 2002 World Heads-Up Poker Championship.

As of 2015, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,425,000.[1]

Chris Bigler has also worked as a senior poker consultant for several major online poker sites.

Trivia
gollark: There's this neat somewhat experimental proof of work thing, no idea if any cryptocurrencies *use* it: https://github.com/tromp/cuckoo
gollark: There are other cryptocurrencies using different proof of work things.
gollark: I think theoretically stuff could be switched over to a non-SHA256 algorithm, requiring... either the majority of mining power to agree to it or I guess just a lot of the nodes.
gollark: A similar sort of thing probably happened when ASICs which do SHA256 much faster than GPUs do were initially used.
gollark: If SHA256 could be done much faster, that would just make whatever can do it really fast the only way to do mining; it autoadjusts to the available has hpower.

References
  1. Chris Bigler Hendon Mob tournament results
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