Barry Greenstein

A poker player who has been nicknamed the “Robin Hood” of Poker is Berry Greenstein and for good reason, his amount of tournaments where he has left in the money is staggering.
Cards and the game of poker came his way early in life, when he learned to play cards with his parents, playing games such as Gin Rummy, hearts and poker. He learned to play so well that by the age of 13 he was playing for money and often making $50 a night playing poker.

Although he enjoyed poker he craved education and at the age of 15 created his own computer software and considered becoming a physician and finding cures for disease.

He was born and raised in Scottsdale Illinois and attended the University of Illinois, earning a bachelor’s degree in computer science. After which he went on to undergraduate studies to earn a Ph.D in mathematics and he also earned a doctorate degree. During this time he gave up playing poker and moved to Silicon Valley and with four other people he began what is known as Symantec along with designing software programs.

Today he has company with his son who also plays pro poker named Joe Sebok and the company is called GreenBok, he wrote a book called Ace on the River and was the software developer along with Symantec the creators of Norton Anti-Virus.

Greenstein is a member of the Team PokerStars and he also was involved in the development of the software that is used in the poker room at Poker Stars.

His entries into poker tournaments are numerous and his wins impressive and they are:
- World Poker Tour Season 2 the Jack Binion World Poker Open where he placed 1st with winnings of $1,278,370
- World Series of Poker 2004 Event 32 Ace-to-Five Draw Lowball where he placed 2nd with winnings of $44,700
World Series of Poker 2005 Event 7 $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em with re-buys where he placed 20th with winnings of $11,000
- World Series of Poker 2005 Event 14 $1,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo where he placed 36th with winnings of $1,625
- World Series of Poker 2005 Event 19 $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha where he placed 1st with winnings of $128,505
- World Series of Poker 2005 Event 29 $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em where he placed 25th with winnings of $9,860
- World Series of Poker 2005 Event 37 $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em where he placed 7th with winnings of $94,000
- World Series of Poker 2006 Event 5 No-Limit Hold’em Short Handed 6 table where he placed 87th with winnings of $3,790
- World Series of Poker 2006 Event 14 No-Limit Hold’em with re-buys where he placed 63rd with winnings of $5,447
- World Series of Poker 2006 Event 16 Pot-Limit Omaha where he placed 13th with winnings of $20,492
- World Series of Poker 2006 Event 20 H.O.R.S.E. where he placed 12th with winnings of $205,920
- World Series of Poker 2006 Event 23 Limit Hold’em where he placed 21st with winnings of $5,647
- World Series of Poker 2006 Event 42 No-Limit Hold’em where he placed 29th with winnings of $1,977
- Special 2007 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship where he placed 9th with winnings of $25,000
- WSOPC 2006 Caesars Indiana where he placed 17th with winnings of $8,843
- World Poker Tour Season 6 Mandalay Bay Poker Championship where he placed 7th with winnings of $54,655
- World Series of Poker 2007 Event 14 Seven Card Stud where he placed 4th $33,698
- World Series of Poker 2007 Event 21 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout where he placed 61st with winnings of $6,757
- World Series of Poker 2007 Event 30 No-Limit Hold’em Six Handed wither he placed 47th with winnings of $5,260
- World Series of Poker 2007 Event 39 World Championship H.O.R.S.E. whre he placed 7th with winnings of $259, 296
- World Poker Tour Season 6 Legends of Poker where he placed 31st with winnings of $20,575
- World Poker Tour Season 6 North American Poker Championship where he placed 4th with winnings of $291,798
- World Poker Tour World Poker Open where he placed 18th with winnings of $14,472

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