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Player Profile: Alan Betson

Published by admin on February 24, 2009

Alan Betson is a popular professional poker player born in Dublin, Ireland. One of the main things about Alan Betson is that he is incredibly funny at the poker table. His sense of humor at the poker table is incredible. As a matter a fact one of the most popular professional poker player out there Padraig Prakinson said that if he should make a list of the funniest things that he heard at an online poker table, 5 out of 10 funniest things will come from Alan Betson.

Alan Betson is a poker player that has been playing private games for a long time, and he made his first appearance in the public back in 2001. He is considered to be a great poker player in crisis situations, as he can get some outstanding results under pressure.

One of the greatest achievements in the poker world of Alan Betson is winning the European Texas Hold’em Championship. He also managed to win the Euro finals Of Poker in Paris. At this last event he managed to pull out a prize of $140,000. Alan Betson is a poker player that in the past was unknown outside Ireland, but right after 2001 when he managed to win an important amount of poker tournaments he started to become famous all over the international poker scene.

In the year 2005 Alan Betson managed to place himself second on two important European poker tournaments:

- The Irish Poker Open in Dublin – here he managed to take home 71,500 Euros
- 800 Euro No limit Hold’em – tournament that took place at the Holland Casino in Amsterdam

His private life is an enigma to everybody so we couldn’t find out too much information about him. One certain thing is that he is a great skilled and famous professional poker player.

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