Jason Koon
Jason Koon
GPI:7
$55,762,108
Jason Koon poker player profile. Get latest information, winnings and gallery.
Profile
- Name
- Jason Koon
- Nationality
United States- GPI Rank
- 7
- WPT Wins
- Total Live Earnings
- $55,762,108
Biography
Jason Koon is an American poker player with over $39 million in career earnings. A GGPoker Ambassador since 2021, Koon is a member of the Poker Integrity Council (PIC)
Koon won his first WSOP bracelet in 2021, taking down the prestigious $25K Heads-Up Championship for $243,981.
"Its one of those things when youre on an airplane and a person is like, Do you have a bracelet? Im just like, Nope. At least I can finally say yes to that," he told PokerNews. "I love coming here. I think Ill play poker forever, and when its all said and done I think its inevitable Ill have several of them."
Jason Koon Wins Maiden WSOP Bracelet in Event #11: $25K Heads-Up Championship ($243,981)
Biography
Koon was born in August, 1985 and studied for a Masters in Business Administration and Finance at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon.
He began playing poker in 2006 while at university, and recorded his first WSOP cash in 2009. Koon would cash regularly in Las Vegas during the 2000s, before finishing runner-up in his first WSOP event in 2012 in the $3,000 No Limit Hold'em/Pot Limit Omaha - Heads-Up.
However, the breakout result came in 2016 when he won the SHRPO Championship for $1,000,000. Less than six months later, Koon had a second seven-figure score with victory in the PokerStars Championship Super High Roller for $1,650,300.
In November 2023, Koon was one of the first sixteen contestants on GGPoker's reality-TV show Game of Gold.
Other Poker Accomplishments
Koon has played on the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series since 2018. In that year, he won the HK$ 1000,000 No Limit Hold'em - Short Deck in Montenegro for $3,579,836. That remains the biggest cash of his career.
The American has also cashed at Triton events in London, England and Jeju, South Korea. In 2021, he won PokerGO Cup Event #6 for $324,000 and also won the GGPoker Sunday Million Super High Roller in February 2022 for $327,112.
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