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WSOP Final Table Profile: Ylon Schwartz
August 19, 2008 - Martin Bradley
(Credit: WatCHerBBD) 
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Name: Ylon Schwartz
Final table Chip Count: 12,525,000
Current Final table position: 5th
Nationality: American
Born: New York
Age: 38
Nickname: N/A
Biggest win before main event: $49,960 (3rd Place $500 No Limt Hold'em 2005 World Poker Finals)
Winnings to date: $258,612
Major titles: 0
WSOP bracelets/money: 0/12
Ylon Schwartz has a huge amount of experience compared to many of the other members of the November 9. The cash in this year's main event was the 12th cash he has ever had in the WSOP, but surprisingly with that kind of record, his best result in a WSOP was a 15th in this year's $2,000 No Limit Hold'em event and the $1,500 No Limit event in 2005.
Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, Schwartz started his gambling career at the age of 13, hustling the legendary 80s chess games in Manhattan's Washington Square Park. He actually became a professional chess player until he realised that he had to expand his gambling experience to be able to make more money and decided to turn his attention to pool, darts, horse betting & eventually backgammon. He eventually found poker and started to be a regular face at Foxwoods and Atlantic City.
Schwartz is also a prolific online Multi Table Tournament player (playing on PokerStars as 'TenthPlanet') and likened the latter stages of the Main Event to getting deep in the Sunday Million. However with one exception, "The Stars Million is probably a little tougher when you go deep".
So if he did win the event how would it change him, well it shows Schwartz's personality when he says that all he really wanted to do was: "If I do well here, I'm going to get a hammock and a bottle of tequila and that'll be that."
So keep checking guidetopoker.com to find out where Schwartz finishes up.
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