Green Making Himself a Contender
The name Brian Green may seem like a very common one and not stand out in many minds when it comes to poker players. Even walking by his table throughout today and the first day of play, Green flew under the radar. He's been quietly making himself into a contender here in the APPT Macau Main Event, having more than doubled his stack today to move up and occupy a top-ten spot on the leaderboard.
Hailing from Costa Rica, Green has over $650,000 in career tournament earnings and by the looks of it right now, will be adding to that number in this event. Looking at Green's tournament resume, there's a few things that stand out.
In April of 2001, Green took down the $1,000 Limit Hold'em event at the Second Annual Jack Binion World Poker Open in Tunica. He won over $53,000 and beat a final table that included Dan Alspach and Ralph Perry. That seemed to ignite a series of solid cashes over the next several years. The next month, Green final tabled a $5,000 Limit Hold'em event at the WSOP where he placed third for just shy of $80,000. A year later in the same month, Green was back at another WSOP final table in the same event. He took second this time for $106,200. Not a bad back-to-back run.
Winning a $1,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em event at the Bellagio Five Diamond Poker Classic netted him $53,544 in 2002 and then in 2006, he finished seventh in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure for $144,500. Overall, Green has cashed in five WSOP events and three EPT events.
He's built himself up to 170,000 chips here today and could be a name you'll need to get familiar with for the rest of this event.