Brett 'gank' Jungblut was born on February 28, 1979 in New Jersey's famous gambling mecca Atlantic City. Both of Brett's parents were poker players and named him after Brett Maverick from their poker TV show Maverick. Brett who already established himself as one of the top online poker pros, gained international recognition when he won the WSOP 2004 Omaha 8 or better world championship with a buy-in of $5,000 and a first place prize of $186,000.
Brett Jungblut's rise to stardom came as a member of the famous Crew who together took 'The Poker World by Storm' in 2004. ESPN's coverage of the crew during their famous run in the World Series of Poker in 2004 was well documented. The bracelet Brett won followed fellow Crew member Scott Fischman's 2 bracelets in no-limit holdem and horse, and Dutch Boyd's 2nd place finish to TJ Cloutier in Razz.
Essentially the crew, which no longer exists, was a group of guys who lived together in LA and each helped each other get better at poker through practice and critique. The crew's popularity even landed them in Rolling Stones Magazine under the title Poker's New World Order. Since then, Dutch Boyd won a bracelet in 6-handed No-Limit Holdem in 2006 heads up against the reigning 2005 main event champion Joe Hachem, and crew member Joe Bartholdi won the World Poker Tour $25,000 main event for $3,760,165.
Despite spending most of his time playing internet poker, Brett Jungblut has 12 WSOP cashes and over $400,000 in lifetime live tournament play.
Brett Jungblut is well known for using the expression "Gank Owns", which comes from his well known screen name 'gank'. Brett 'gank' Jungblut is widely considered one of the best online poker players in the world. In fact, Bluff Magazine Radio called Brett Jungblut the most prolific online poker player today, and he continues to make an impact in online poker by dominating multi-table tournaments.
Brett's down to earth style has been a positive influence to online poker's growth by speaking his mind on issues regarding online poker. You can find him regularly posting on the Pocketfives forum. Gank's official website, gankowns.com, offers a glimpse into his world. Brett Jungblut is best known by his online poker screen name gank, Brett is widely known for the fact he is perpetually stoned. Because he plays up to 16 hours a day of internet poker, he stays focused by smoking a lot of weed.
These pictures of Brett Jungblut are of him at the WSOP playing against David Pham in 2005 and against the nun in 2006, with Doyle Brunson, with Annie Duke, and some of him just sporting his unique style including his famous dread locks. During the 2005 WSOP TV coverage, ESPN showed a clip where the very fashionable Marcel Luske and David Plastik cut his dreadlocks and they picked out a $1,700 suit for Brett to wear to the main event. An interesting fact is that gank used to be a model when he was younger.
Brett 'gank' Jungblut teaches online poker strategy through two products, one on Multi-Table Tournaments and one on Sit and Go Domination Strategy . He also operates the original online poker school, Pro Poker School, where videos with audio commentary are used to explain strategy in nearly every type of poker game including No-Limit Texas Holdem and Omaha hi/low.
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