WPT Career Stats
| Stat |
Value |
Rank |
| Career Earnings |
$478,070 |
230 |
| Cashes |
4 |
203 |
| Final Tables |
1 |
101 |
| Titles |
0 |
108 |
| Tournaments Played |
28 |
183 |
|
Most people's poker biographies begin with the story of learning poker in small games and gambling for small stakes with plastic chips. Shannon Shorr's story begins in a much different way. The one-time baseball player, one-time University of Alabama Civil Engineer student was a poker millionaire before he should've graduated from college. Shorr was a tournament champion even before he could play legally in the United States. In 2006, he went overseas and jumped into the Aussie Millions championship event in Melbourne, Australia. A fourth place finish there earned him $200,000. What's more, it drew the attention of people wondering how a twenty-year old could pull off such a score. Just a week later, Shorr headed for the Bahamas and took second place in the Canadian Poker Championships for a $75,000 payday. He hadn't even turned 21 years old and was already earning a CEO's salary. Shorr celebrated his coming of age party in the United States with back-to-back final tables in Lake Tahoe, two small events at Bellagio, and then the big one: a win at the Bellagio Cup for $650,000. Shorr has shown no signs of looking back. Still at an age when he could be entering graduate school, Shorr is making more money than his contemporaries ever dreamed. At age 22, he's already won $1.75 million and seems to be winning more tournaments every week.
