Good guys finish first.

Gavin Griffin was born in Illinois and originally had hopes of playing professional baseball. He was offered several scholarships, but instead decided to study speech pathology in Texas. Soon, however, Gavin traded pathology for poker – the green felt was just too hard to resist.

After a few losing sessions in home games with his college friends, Gavin began studying poker books and quickly developed into a winning player. In 2004, he travelled to Las Vegas to play in the WSO and managed to win a bracelet in the $3,000 Pot Limit Hold’em event. To win a bracelet at his first World Series Event was impressive – but the fact that he was the youngest player to ever do so was record-breaking.

Since then, Gavin has cashed in several other major tournaments, including a third-place finish at a WSOP Circuit event. In 2007, Gavin found his biggest win yet, winning the Grand Final of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Season 3 in Monte Carlo. The victory earned him $2,434,061 and the respect of the global poker community. In January 2008, Gavin made history once again, by winning the WPT Borgata Winter Open. In addition to the first place prize money of $1,401,109, the win also meant that he became the first player ever to win the 'triple crown', with a World Series bracelet, an EPT and a WPT victory. In all, Gavin's total live tournament earnings currently stand at almost $4,500,000.

In his spare time, Gavin helps raise money for breast cancer charities, alongside his girlfriend, who managed to beat the disease herself.

Having already achieved so much in the poker world – and all of it coming before he’s even turned thirty years old – Gavin Griffin could well go on to become one of the greatest players the game has ever seen. He has already proven himself to be a positive ambassador for the game as a whole.