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High Stakes poker player Sam Farha exits World Series of Poker Main Event

by Thomas Jensen on Sunday, July 8th, 2007

High Stakes player Sam Farha exits World Series of Poker Main Event Fans watching the World Series of Poker Main Event Day 1b saw high stakes poker player Sam Farha get knocked out about mid evening. Sportsbook.com had given Sam Farha +400 odds to win the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event.

Ihsan "Sam" Farha was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1959 and now lives in Houston, Texas. He is best known for his 2nd place finish in the 2003 World Series of Poker main event where he won $1.3 million.

Farha has secured 2 WSOP bracelets; one in 1996, when he took the title and $145,000 in $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha and the 2nd bracelet came along a decade later, in 2006, when he won more than $398,000 and the title in the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha 8/b. He also finished in the money in the 2005 World Series of Poker main event.

Farha's family moved to Wichita, Kansas when he was a teen-ager and he eventually earned a degree in Business Administration at the University of Kansas. Afterwards, he moved to Houston, Texas to work with his brother and he began playing poker in Houston. By 1990, he had quit his job to play poker full time.

Farha is currently appearing on the 3rd season of High Stakes Poker, shown on GSN. He also is working on a book tentatively titled, "Luck is not Enough" and plays himself in the 2007 movie "Lucky You."

He has been referred to as the "Humphrey Bogart of Poker" because he often plays poker with an unlit cigarette dangling from his lips. In fact, Farha will change cigarettes if he is on a losing streak so that he can get rid of the "unlucky" one.

Sam Farha's total live tournament winnings exceeded $2 million as of 2006 although he seems to prefer cash games over tournaments.

Monday through Friday
1:00 PM EST – $2,000.00 guaranteed, $10.00+$1.00 buy-in

4:00 PM EST – $6,000.00 guaranteed, $25.00+$2.50 buy-in

6:30 PM EST – $2,000.00 guaranteed, $10.00+$1.00 buy-in

9:30 PM EST – $10,000.00 guaranteed, $30.00+$3 buy-in

10:00 PM EST – $1,000 guaranteed, $5+$0.50 buy-in

MIDNIGHT EST – $2,000.00 guaranteed, $10.00+$1.00 buy-in

Sportsbook.com has posted the following 2007 WSOP odds on the poker player that will win the Main Event at the World Series of Poker:

Alan Betson 600-1

Alan Goehring 500-1

Allan Cunningham 200-1

Amarillo Slim 600-1

Amir Vahedi 600-1

Andy Black 400-1

Annie Duke 400-1

Antonio Esfandiari 250-1

Ash Derei 600-1

Barny Boatman 400-1

Barry Greenstein 500-1

Barry Shulman 500-1

Ben Affleck 800-1

Ben Roberts 600-1

Bill Gazes 600-1

Bruno Fitoussi 600-1

Chip Jett 600-1

Chip Reese 400-1

Chris Bigler 500-1

Chris Bjorin 500-1

Chris Fergusen 175-1

Chris Moneymaker 400-1

Chris Tsiprailidis 600-1

Dan Harrington 200-1

Daniel Negreanu 75-1

Danny Nguyen 600-1

Dave Colclough 400-1

Dave Ulliott 250-1

David Chiu 600-1

David Pham 400-1

David Singer 600-1

David Sklansky 600-1

David Williams 400-1

Dewey Tomko 600-1

Donnacha ODea 600-1

Doyle Brunson 500-1

Eric Seidel 200-1

Erick Lindgren 300-1

Evelyn Ng 600-1

Freddy Bonyadi 600-1

Freddy Deeb 600-1

Greg Raymer 250-1

Gus Hansen 200-1

Harry Demetriou 400-1

Hasin Habib 500-1

Howard Lederer 200-1

Huck Seed 500-1

Humberto Brenes 500-1

Jamie Gold 400-1

Jeff Lisandro 500-1

Jennifer Harman 600-1

Joe Beevers 600-1

Joe Hachem 500-1

Johan Storakers 400-1

John Cernuto 600-1

John Hennigan 400-1

John Juanda 250-1

John Phan 600-1

Johnny Chan 150-1

Josh Arieh 400-1

Juha Helppi 600-1

Julian Gardner 400-1

Kenna James 600-1

Layne Flack 500-1

Lucy Rokach 600-1

Marcel Luske 300-1

Mark Seif 600-1

Martin De Knijff 400-1

Mattias Andersson 400-1

Max Pescatori 500-1

Mel Judah 500-1

Men Nguyen 400-1

Michael Mizrachi 300-1

Mickey Wernick 600-1

Noah Boeken 600-1

Pascal Perrault 400-1

Paul Maxfield 600-1

Paul Phillips 600-1

Peter Costa 400-1

Peter Hedlund 600-1

Phil Gordon 500-1

Phil Hellmuth 75-1

Phil Ivey 75-1

Phil Laak 300-1

Prahlad Friedman 600-1

Ram Vaswani 300-1

Randy Holland 500-1

Rob Hollink 500-1

Robert Varkonyi 600-1

Ross Boatman 600-1

Sam Farha 400-1

Scotty Nguyen 200-1

Simon Trumper 500-1

Surinder Sunar 500-1

TJ Coultier 300-1

Ted Forrest 400-1

Tobias Persson 600-1

Todd Brunson 500-1

Tony Bloom 600-1

Tony G 500-1

Willie Tann 500-1