Alan Goehring hails from Henderson, NV, and once worked full-time as a junk bond analyst and trader. He turned to poker in his late 30s for the fun and recreation, and hasn’t looked back since. He has crossed the $5 million mark in live tournament winnings and has played against some of the world’s finest poker players.

For some time he gained a reputation similar to that of Phil Mickelson in the golf world. The greatest player who couldn’t win a big event; finishing 3rd in the 1997 World Series of Poker $10,000 No-limit Texas Holdem main event, and two years later finishing as the runner up in the same event. However, he was destined to flip the reputation as he won the World Poker Tour $25,000 Inaugural event for a prize purse of over $1 million. He sat at the final table with some of the worlds finest: Phil Ivey, Doyle Brunson, and Ted Forrest. Eventually he knocked out Kirill Gerasimov in head to head competition. In 2005, Goehring finished 6th at the Grand Prix de Paris, a poker game sponsored by the World Poker Tour and later went on to win a record breaking $2.39 million dollar prize in the WPT L.A. Poker Classic.

Still actively involved in stocks and bonds, Goehring has no desire to do anything but enjoy the poker he plays. His motivation is to have fun, while making some additional money to use for wise investments and some spending. Not a bad result for someone who picked up poker in his spare time.