That connection prompted a move to Oklahoma City in 2014 and occasional trips to Choctaw to take part in their larger tournament series. When he decided to start his own hedge fund, he made a connection that would help him get more funding and get the project off the ground. While living in the Northeast and working for Morgan Stanley, Strasser earned his first ring in August of 2013 after a main event win at Foxwoods in Connecticut. Strasser’s initial career move away from poker and to Wall Street moved him up the East Coast and into New York City. I really enjoyed my opponents and getting into the flow of it. “I mean, honestly, I don’t get to play much poker these days and the final table, the way it played out, we were three-handed for a long time and it was really, really fun because it wasn’t 20 big blind push/shove. “It’s great,” said Strasser after his win. He defeated a field of 1,249 entries who all put up the $1,675 buy-in and bested Krzysztof Stybaniewicz heads-up, denying the Colorado native a third ring of his own. On Monday night, Strasser earned his second Circuit ring and $332,589 and a seat in the 2018 Global Casino Championship by winning the WSOP Circuit Choctaw main event. He left a full-time career on the felt after to take a job on Wall Street and eventually start his own hedge fund, but it’s clear he hasn’t lost a step. Playing mostly online after graduating from Duke, he was one of the first players to make a ton of money grinding online tournaments.

Janu(Durant, OK) - In his younger days, Jason Strasser was one of the best no-limit hold’em players on the planet. Former poker pro defeats a massive field in Oklahoma for his second Circuit ring, both in main events

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