Kevin Song is a

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professional

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player who started playing poker since 1980 and began playing in

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s since 1994 where he has cashed in many of them throughout his poker career, among them are 39 cashes at the

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including winning the 1997 World Series of Poker $2,000 buy-in Limit Hold'em event.

World Series of Poker

Song has cashed 39 times at the

(WSOP), making twelve final tables. At the

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, his first cash at a WSOP event, Song made the final table and finished in 9th place in the $2,500 Limit Hold'em event won by Mike Laing. Three years later he won his first bracelet in the $2,000 Limit Hold'em event at the 1997 World Series of Poker, earning $397,120 in a final table that included other professional players like

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and

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. He has two WSOP second place finishes. The first was at the $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout event of the

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where he finished runner-up to

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, earning $58,300. He came in second again at the

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in the $1,500 Limit Hold'em event.

World Series of Poker bracelets

World Poker Tour

Song has finished in the money six times at the

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(WPT), including placing 9th in the 2003 L.A. Poker Classic and 10th at the 2006 WPT World Poker Challenge.

Other poker events

Some of Song's biggest cashes have been at a various poker events such as winning the $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Championship Event at the 1997 Hall of Fame Poker Classic, earning $184,000, winning the $2,000 No Limit Hold'em Championship Event at the 1999 Legends of Poker, earning $96,800, finishing in 3rd at the 2005 WSOP Circuit event at Harrah's Las Vegas, earning $110,638 that was won by

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and Song won the $1,500 No Limit Hold'em event at the Fifth Annual Five Diamond World Poker Classic in 2006, earning $253,560. As of 2018, his total live tournament winnings exceed $4,175,000.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Song, Kevin Living people South Korean poker players World Series of Poker bracelet winners People from Brea, California Year of birth missing (living people)