- Simon Trumper
Infobox poker player
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firstname=Simon
lastname=Trumper
nickname=Aces
|caption=Simon Trumper inLate Night Poker episode 2.3
hometown=South Kensington
wsop bracelet count="None"
wsop money finishes=3
wsop main event best finish rank="None"
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ept money finishes=Simon "Aces" Trumper (born
31 May ,1963 ) is an English professionalpoker player fromSouth Kensington ,London , England. He is chiefly noted as the winner ofLate Night Poker series 2 and runner-up of series 4. Trumper also commentated on theLate Night Poker Ace spin-off series alongsideJesse May .As a child, Trumper was expelled from secondary school for playing poker dice after finishing a mathematics exam. He started playing in
1995 when he entered a £10 tournament in Reading with a friend on a night out. He was also bullied a lot due to his surname 'Trumper'.At the
World Series of Poker he has had a 4th place finish in the 2001 $3,000 No Limit Hold-Em event (which also featured Johnny Chan andKathy Liebert ; and a 5th place finish in the 2005 $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha event (which also featuredTodd Brunson ,Barry Greenstein (who lost a critical pot to Simon, and then complained about it in his blog.),Erik Seidel and Julian "The Kid" Gardner. He has not yet featured in theWorld Poker Tour .In May 2005, he reached the fourth round of the €2,000 World Heads-Up Championship, earning €3,250.
Trumper owns a pair of gold and diamond aces to cap his cards as a good luck charm. He admires Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliott,
T.J. Cloutier andErik Seidel above all other poker players.Outside of poker, Trumper owns a drainage company. He is a non-smoker, and would like to see smoking banned from all poker games. Trumper suffers from the hair loss condition, Alopecia.
As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,000,000.
He now lives in
Guildford ,Surrey . He has a daughter called Kylie Scobie-Trumper.External links
* [http://www.simonacestrumper.com/ Official Site]
* [http://simontrumper.livejournal.com/ Trumper's Live Journal]
* [http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2006/1/simon-trumper-ukbetting.htm UK Betting folds its Aces]
* [http://uk.pokernews.com/news/2005/11/interview-simon-aces-trumper.htm UKPokerNews interview]
* [http://www.blondepoker.com/index.php?q=node/3061 blonde poker interview]
* [http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=232 Hendon Mob tournament results]
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