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Russ Hamilton is a professional poker player.

Hamilton moved from Detroit, Michigan to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1984 for better weather. He opened a burglar alarm business, and was very successful at gambling, including betting on basketball and playing poker.

Hamilton won the main event of the 1994 World Series of Poker, taking a $1,000,000 prize. Because it was the silver (25th) anniversary of the WSOP, he also won his weight in silver, over $26,000. During the later stages of the tournament, the crowd at Binion's was cheering for "Big Russ" to win, since he was clearly the physically largest of the players still in, and would therefore have the largest prize.

Hamilton doesn't travel to play a lot of poker, mainly playing in the larger tournaments. He says since he has already won the WSOP, he doesn't play to win a title anymore, just to get money, and so he will frequently offer to split prize money with other players instead of taking an all-or-nothing risk.

Hamilton routinely plays high stakes golf against other amateurs. He can shoot in the seventies, exceptional for an amateur.

Hamilton was also a bookie and oddsmaker in Detroit.

As of 2006 his live tournament winnings exceed $1,310,000.

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