Poker Player Profile: Allen Cunningham started getting really serious about the game of poker whilst he was studying for his engineering degree at the UCLA. Allen Cunningham did not really make a mark initially in the gaming world of poker. However, the big break came for him in the year 1999 when he was able to win up to six tournaments and prove to himself and the others that he did have it in him to turn into an ace poker player. This year really proved greatly successful for him and since then there has been no looking back for Allen Cunningham.
The game of poker showed him such success in such a short span of time and the earnings that it raked in for him, that finally Allen Cunningham had to decide to drop out of UCLA and pursue the game of poker professionally.
Allen Cunningham is thirty-three years old now and has a long way to go. He resides in LA Nevada and continues to play poker professionally. His total wins so far at this young age have been as much as $9,947,779. He has had 129 cashes and has been ranked at 8711 in the ProRank 1 Position. He has a girlfriend called Melissa Hayden and a dog called Muffin whom he loves dearly.
The place that he started playing poker was surprisingly when he was only 18 and in Indian casinos. In fact, when he first went on to enter the poker world he was a really young turk in the year 1998. At that point in time he played with people like Phil Ivey, Layne Flack and others. He has got great ambition as well as talent and has fared really well in poker.
Allen Cunningham is already known as a multi-millionaire poker player and enjoys great limelight and celebrity status. He has appeared on several different television shows and has a fan following to boot.
He was born in Riverside, California and has played it really right in life by choosing to play poker professionally rather than opt to pursue his civil engineering degree which he had set out to do first. This move of his has really paid off well and he has been able to focus and concentrate full time on the game. He spends most of his time at Full Tilt Poker and the website has been his main sponsor and continues to remain so right from the year 2006.
The year 2006 proved to be really lucky for him as it brought in his main win from the World Series of Poker. This is the place wherein he was able to finish fourth in the Main Event. This is what earned him a record breaking $3.5 million in one sweep.
The nick name that Allen Cunningham has got for himself is Clever Piggy. How did this particular nick name originate for Allen Cunningham know one knows of but it surely sticks to him even till this day…