Alec Michael Torelli (born March 24, 1987) also known by his moniker Traheho, is an American Entrepreneur, Speaker, Influencer and professional poker player from Orange County, California.
First known as a high stakes poker player who travels the world full time chasing the poker action, Torelli has since started his digital marketing agency. His most recent project, [Poker], aims to be the best poker training site in the world while still having a social mission to give back to others who weren't dealt a winning hand in life. Torelli documents his life and travels on his popular [as=subscriber|YouTube], [[1]] and [Media]. Torelli currently travels the world full time, dividing his time between the Las Vegas, California, New York, Italy and Southeast Asia.
Torelli used to be sponsored by Doyles Room.. He is left-handed.
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Poker Career
Torelli's begin playing poker in 2004 after a friend invited him to a home game of poker where he won $12.
Torelli's first live poker event was in the Bahamas in January of 2006.
After turning 21, Torelli moved to Las Vegas. During his first World Series of Poker (WSOP), he finished 2nd in the $10,000 Heads Up event. Later that fall, he won back-to-back events at the Bellagio. The next summer, he placed 6th in the commemorative $40,000, 40-year anniversary WSOP event, and 4th in the World Poker Tour at the Bellagio.
Currently, he is an active poker blogger.
As of 2017, Torelli has amassed over $1,500,000 of poker tournament winnings.
Controversy
In 2017, Torelli was first accused of engaging in angle shooting during a televised episode of Poker Night in America by members on the 2+2 forum. Later, professional poker player Doug Polk released a video questioning the ethics of the hand played during the episode. During the hand, larger denomination chips totaling $10,000 were placed behind smaller denomination chips in Torelli's stack of poker chips. Poker rules require that larger denomination chips have to be in plain view. This influenced Torelli's isolated opponent in the hand, Daniel Wolf, who ended up losing $10,000 more than he believed was at stake.
Following the hand, Torelli stated that he used his opponent's surprise at the discovery of the high-value chips as a "read" to determine that his opponent's hand was mediocre. Later, Torelli posted a video on YouTube faulting his opponent for not knowing his chip stack size. Understandably, this non-apology apology was criticised by many members in the poker community.
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References
External links
- Official website
- Alec Torelli Hendon Mob profile
Source of article : Wikipedia
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