Joe Sebok Profile

Joe Sebok - Imagine growing up with a father who is a poker pro, a man who not only travels to exotic and exciting locations on business but gets to play cards for a living. Not only that, but a father who is so successful at the game that he can’t hold on to all the money he makes and starts giving it all away, so much so that he earns the nickname “The Robin Hood Of Poker.” For Joe Sebok it was…frustrating. It seems that way, at least, from his own words on the subject, written down and posted on his father’s website at http://www.barrygreenstein.com/allinthefamily.htm.

What you read in Joe’s words is about a childhood where his father refused to share any secrets and any play time in the game he was famous for. And yet, despite how frustrating that must have been for Joe, his story of tossing the football and going out for ice cream and over all  good fathering is one that says “happy kid.” As soon as Joe got out in the world and got an education, Barry was willing to open up the super-secret tome of poker knowledge he kept locked away from Joe for all those years, and begin his training in earnest. What Joe discovered, however, was that his poker training had begun from the age of six.

Barry trained him on how to be competitive, on how to handle high stress situations and how to maintain composure regardless of how things are going. These traits gave Joe a leg up on many poker players who, despite having years and years of pot odds and winning hand percentages and tons of other poker specific experience, struggle with the simple yet vitally important problem of tilt.

And how did Joe do, once he turned his attention to poker? The list of cashes from 2005 below speak volumes. Now that the fetters are off and Barry and Joe can freely talk poker, no one would be surprised to see Joe starting a collection of WSOP bracelets in the near future.

2005  $15,000 Main Event - No Limit Hold'em
Fourth Annual Five Diamond World Poker Classic 31st  $40,250
 
2005 $5,000 No Limit Hold'em
Fourth Annual Five Diamond World Poker Classic 15th  $10,390
 
2005 $2,500 No Limit Hold'em
Fourth Annual Five Diamond World Poker Classic 10th $6,765

2005 $1,000 No Limit Hold'em
36th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2005 54th $5,640
 
2005  $5,000 Limit Hold'em World Series of Poker 5th $75,860
 
2005 $5,000 Pot Limit Hold'em
36th World Series of Poker 8th  $33,700