Triple Crown (Poker)

The Triple Crown of Poker consists of winning a poker title in the three major poker tours/events:^[1] The World Series of Poker, World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour.

So far, only five players have completed the feat: Gavin Griffin,^[2][3] Roland De Wolfe,^[4] Jake Cody,^[5] Bertrand Grospellier^[6] and Davidi Kitai.^[7] In 2008, Griffin won his first World Poker Tour title, becoming the first to complete the feat.

On January 25, 2010, Cody won the EPT Deauville. He followed that up on September 4, 2010, Cody won the WPT London Poker Classic, and then, he completed the feat on June 4, 2011. It took him 1 year, 4 months, 11 days, which is the quickest of the five ^[8] and the only one that did it in less than three years.

Player	WSOP Bracelet	WPT Title	EPT Title	Length of Time from First Win
Gavin Griffin	2004	2008	2007	3 years, 8 months, 17 days [9]
Roland De Wolfe	2009	2005	2006	3 years, 10 months, 17 days [10]
Jake Cody	2011	2010	2010	1 year, 4 months, 11 days
Bertrand Grospellier	2011	2008	2008	3 years, 5 months, 5 days [11]
Davidi Kitai	2008	2011	2012	3 years, 10 months [12]

Players One Win Away

Player	WSOP Title	WPT Title	EPT Title
Roberto Romanello		X	X
Mohsin Charania		X	X
Andrey Pateychuk		X	X
Moritz Kranich		X	X
Harrison Gimbel		X	X
Niall Farrell		X	X
Ram Vaswani	X		X
Jason Mercier	X		X
Adrián Mateos	X		X
Rob Hollink	X		X
John Juanda	X		X
Eugene Katchalov	X	X
Daniel Alaei	X	X
David Benyamine	X	X
Doyle Brunson	X	X
Brandon Cantu	X	X
David Chiu	X	X
Scott Clements	X	X
Hoyt Corkins	X	X
Paul Darden	X	X
Freddy Deeb	X	X
James Dempsey	X	X
Bill Edler	X	X
Antonio Esfandiari	X	X
Dietrich Fast	X	X
Layne Flack	X	X
Ted Forrest	X	X
Andy Frankenberger	X	X
Prahlad Friedman	X	X
John Gale	X	X
Michael Gracz	X	X
Barry Greenstein	X	X
Joe Hachem	X	X
Gus Hansen	X	X
Dan Harrington	X	X
John Hennigan	X	X
Phil Ivey	X	X
Theo Jørgensen	X	X
Mel Judah	X	X
Phil Laak	X	X
Tuan Le	X	X
Howard Lederer	X	X
Erick Lindgren	X	X
Michael Mizrachi	X	X
Carlos Mortensen	X	X
Daniel Negreanu	X	X
Scotty Nguyen	X	X
Dominik Nitsche	X	X
John Phan	X	X
Ron Rose	X	X
Nick Schulman	X	X
Erik Seidel	X	X
Scott Seiver	X	X
Gavin Smith	X	X
Keven Stammen	X	X
JC Tran	X	X
Dave Ulliott	X	X
David Williams	X	X

References

1. "Poker has crowned 5 Triple Crown winners; 55 more knocking on the door". Poker Today. 2014-07-21. Retrieved 2015-06-11.
2. "Gavin Griffin". World Poker Tour.
3. "Gavin Griffin". World Series of Poker.
4. "Roland de Wolfe". The Hendon Mob.
5. "Jake Cody". The Hendon Mob.
6. "Bertrand Grospellier". The Hendon Mob.
7. "Davidi Katai". The Hendon Mob.
8. "WSOP: Jake Cody Nabs Heads-Up Bracelet and Triple Crown". Poker News. 2011-06-04. Retrieved 2015-06-11.
9. "Gavin Griffin Poker Results". Card Player. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
10. "Roland De Poker Results". Card Player. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
11. "Bertrand Grospellier Poker Results". Card Player. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
12. "Davidi Katai Poker Results". Card Player. Retrieved 2015-06-30.