Jeff Madsen Profile

It is hard to think of Jeff Madsen without thinking “Wow!”

Three years in a row. That’s how often the record for youngest World Series of Poker winner has been broken. Each year they keep getting younger and younger, and the only way that record is going to stay unbroken is if some future player turns 21 the day he plays a one-day event and wins it outright. Until that day, even though this has been said twice before, “It remains unlikely that the record now standing will be broken” as Jeff Madsen sealed the deal at 21 years, one month, and nine days of age.

The UC-Santa Barbara college student maneuvered his way thorough a field of 1,578 players, who each put up $2,000 to enter Event 22 at this year's WSOP, and took home $660,948 with his first place win. Not bad, not bad at all. And this was days after a final table finish of 3rd place in an earlier event!

If the story had ended here, it would have already been remarkable. But then, five days after he snagged his first WSOP bracelet, Jeff Madsen did it again. He scored his SECOND bracelet in another event, scoring two more records: youngest player to two bracelets, and youngest WSOP millionaire. And then, I think just to rub salt in an open wound, he went and hit another third place finish at a fourth final table, bumping him up among the top of the heap for the year’s WSOP money finishers.

Jeff is a film student…perhaps he will make his own movie, because odds are good someone will want to tell this story on film.

37th Annual World Series of Poker
Event #35 - WSOP 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo 
3rd $65,971 
Jul 24, 2006

37th Annual World Series of Poker
Event #30 - WSOP No Limit Hold'em Short Handed 
1st $643,381 
Jul 20, 2006

37th Annual World Series of Poker
Event #22 - WSOP No Limit Hold'em 
1st $660,948 
Jul 14, 2006

37th Annual World Series of Poker
Event #8 - WSOP Omaha Hi/Lo 
3rd $97,552 
Jul 3, 2006