Play it Again, Sam



Sammy Farha Wins $398,560 in Omaha High-Low Championship



Debonair high-stakes poker pro busts Phil Ivey in heads-up play and
captures second gold bracelet

Official 2006 WSOP Tournament Report



Las Vegas, NV – There is no one in the poker world quite like Sammy Farha.  
Dashing and debonair, Farha is part James Bond, part Humphrey Bogart, part
Hugh Hefner -- all wrapped up into a five-foot-nine dynamo of a man with an
unrelenting passion for fast living and high-stakes gambling.

Farha burst upon the poker scene a decade ago when he won a gold
bracelet in the pot-limit Omaha championship at the 1996 World Series of
Poker.  But it wasn’t until his alluring television appearance on ESPN in the
2003 main event that “Sammy Farha” became a household name.  If the
World Series was all about style, then Farha would have been its champion
long ago.  Farha blitzed through 837 players that fateful year.  All that stood
in the way of Farha and a $2.5 million cash prize was a previously-unknown
accountant from Tennessee named Chris Moneymaker.  

What happened at that final table three long years ago is no longer a
mystery.  Moneymaker won.  But in many ways, Farha won too.  Like it or not,
Sammy Farha was a bona fide poker celebrity.

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