Robert Varkonyi

Robert Varkonyi (born 1961 in New York) is an American poker player, best known for winning the main event of the 2002 World Series of Poker. Varkonyi was born in and raised in New York. He first started playing poker as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After his graduation in 1983 (with degrees in EECS and from the MIT Sloan School of Management), he was an investment banker in Brooklyn, New York for a number of years before beginning to play tournament poker. Varkonyi is most well known for winning the 2002 World Series of Poker main event, taking the $2 million prize. In the final hand, Varkonyi's Q♦ 10♠ defeated Julian Gardner's J♣ 8♣ on a board of Q♣ 4♣ 4♠ 10♦ 10♣, resulting in Varkonyi's full house...