- Bob Ciaffone
Infobox poker player
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firstname=Bob
lastname=Ciaffone
nickname=The Coach
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hometown=Saginaw, Michigan
wsop bracelet count="None"
wsop money finishes=5
wsop main event best finish rank=3rd
wsop main event best finish year=1987
multi-year wsop winner=
wpt titles=
wpt final tables=
wpt money finishes=Bob Ciaffone (born
December 10 1940 inBrooklyn, New York ) is the author of "Robert's Rules of Poker", and an Americanpoker player, based inSaginaw, Michigan .Ciaffone finished third in the
1987 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 no limitTexas hold 'em main event, winning $125,000. In that same year, he finished fourth in the WSOP $2,500 pot limitOmaha hold 'em event and fifth in the WSOP $1,000 no limit Texas hold 'em event.A regular columnist in
Card Player Magazine , Ciaffone is a noted authority on U.S. gambling laws related to poker. He founded "Fair Laws on Poker", a non-profit organization dedicated to improving local, state, and national laws that apply to poker. He was the president of the Michigan Chess Association in 2003 and is the author of four books on poker and two books on chess, and has been awarded the Life Master title by theUnited States Chess Federation .As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $230,000. [ [http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=5789 Hendon Mob tournament results] ]
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External links
* [http://pokercoach.us Official site]
* [http://www.fairlawsonpoker.org Fair Laws on Poker]
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