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Ylon Schwartz


Poker career
Ylon Schwartz (born c. 1970) is a chess master and professional poker player from Brooklyn, New York, and a fourth place finisher in the $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold’em Main Event of the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP), played on November 9, 2008. Prior to the Main Event, Schwartz had 11 career WSOP cashes and plays poker professionally online under the screen name “TenthPlanet”.
His biggest WSOP win was at the 2005 World Poker Finals in the No-Limit Hold’em $500 buy-in event, in which his third place finish brought him a payout of $49,960. On November 10, 2008, Schwartz was eliminated after going all in against Peter Eastgate and ending the tournament in fourth place, earning $3,774,974. As of 2009, his total lifetime live poker tournament winnings exceed $4,200,000. His 14 cashes at the WSOP have netted him $4,041,303 in earnings.

Poker career

Ylon Schwartz (born c. 1970) is a chess master and professional poker player from Brooklyn, New York, and a fourth place finisher in the $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold’em Main Event of the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP), played on November 9, 2008. Prior to the Main Event, Schwartz had 11 career WSOP cashes and plays poker professionally online under the screen name “TenthPlanet”.

His biggest WSOP win was at the 2005 World Poker Finals in the No-Limit Hold’em $500 buy-in event, in which his third place finish brought him a payout of $49,960. On November 10, 2008, Schwartz was eliminated after going all in against Peter Eastgate and ending the tournament in fourth place, earning $3,774,974. As of 2009, his total lifetime live poker tournament winnings exceed $4,200,000. His 14 cashes at the WSOP have netted him $4,041,303 in earnings.