Ted Forrest is known as one of the most successful poker players in the world. Born in 1964 in Syracuse NY, Ted Forrest currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. Taking chances, he loves to take wagers and bet on different propositions with people, and his pockets are always ready to hand out a lost bet or absorb the winning money. After playing poker early in his twenties, Ted Forrest began his professional poker role in Vegas with $100. Almost loosing it all, he had a good poker game that same day raising the profits to $166, and continued to do so ever since. Ted Forrest testifies of his ability to study and read his opponents, and relates it to the days he worked at the box as a poker dealer. Watching the players and their reactions along the game benefited his psychological skills during his later games.
Ted Forrest is a true poker player, and even though he participates in many major big events, he loves playing the buy-in tournaments that have lots of entries, because the cash pots are bigger. Playing in so many events sure brings better chances of winning and indeed, Ted Forrest has won top places during his years of play. With five World Series of Poker’s Gold Bracelets in his winning resume, along with six other first places in other tournaments Ted Forrest currently is ranked 30th POY in the world.
Ted Forrest turned his love of playing poker to his profession. When he competed in 1992, he had some great finishes in different tournaments and was awarded as the Best All Around Player at the Los Angeles Poker classic. In 1993 Ted Forrest amazed the poker world by winning three of the most desirable awards in a poker championship. He finished in first place in three events at the World Series of Poker: at the Seven-Card Stud’s pot of $114,000, Seven-Card Razz winning of $77,400, and the Omaha Hi/Lo for $120,000. Ted Forrest repeated his skill at the 2004 WSOP with two more bracelets, winning the final tables both in Seven-Card Stud collecting $111,440 and No-Limit Hold’Em for a prize of $300,300. The last World Series of Poker in June 2008 earned him yet two more notable top places. A 5th place in the Pot Limit Omaha event left him with the prize money of $144,427 and a 2nd place in a Omaha Hi/Lo 8 Or Better event that scored him $143,420. Ted Forrest had his biggest win of cash in the Bay 101 Shooting Star World Poker Tournament at the No Limit Hold’Em Championship, 2007. He collected $1,100,000 after defeating J.J. Liu and winning first place.
All in all, Ted Forrest has collected over $5,200,000 throughout his winnings.
Online poker playing for him is through “Full Tilt Poker” where he uses the screen name profbackwards, which is abbreviated for his poker nickname Professor Backwards. When not seated around the poker table, Ted Forrest enjoys all types of skiing- snow skiing, jet skiing and water skiing and he loves to play tennis.
Ted Forrest – Winnings and Highlights
1st place winnings: 11
World Series of Poker Winnings and Bracelets: 5
Cashes: 66
Total winnings profit: $5,200,000