Poker Career
Ramdin took up poker in 2002 after seeing people play it in a bar and was later mentored by Phil Ivey. In 2003, he finished in the money of a World Series of Poker (WSOP) event for the first time in the $2,000 pot limit Texas hold 'em event. He also cashed in the $10,000 no limit hold 'em main event that year, finishing 29th. Later in the year he also finished 3rd at the Showdown at the Sands event won by John Myung. Ramdin finished highly in the main event of the 2004 United States Poker Championship. While he did not cash in in the main event of the following year's USPC, he did receive a signed copy of Barry Greenstein's book "Ace on the River" after eliminating Greenstein from this tournament. Ramdin also finished in the money of the World Poker Tour (WPT) season 3 championship.
In 2005, made the final table of the PartyPoker Million V Cruise. The following year, Ramdin won the WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic, when his A♥ J♠ defeated Alex Jacob's K♦ J♣ on a board of Q♥ 7♥ 3♠ 8♠ J♥ in the final hand. Ramdin took home $1,331,889 for the win. Two weeks later he came close to making the final table of the WPT season 4 championship, finishing 11th when his A♣ 10♣ failed to improve against Vanessa Rousso's A♠ Q♣ on the Q♥ 6♣ 4♣ Q♠ 8♠ board. Ramdin cashed four times at the 2008 World Series of Poker including one final table (7th $ 1,500 H.O.R.S.E event) and finishing in 64th place out of 6,844 entries in the $10,000 buy-in Main Event, earning $96,500. As of 2010, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,700,000.
Ramdin is expected to join Joe Cada and Dennis Phillips to play in a charity tournament for the Genesis Foundation for Fitness and Tennis Aces in Wichita, Kansas, in November 2010. The proceeds of the tournament will help underprivileged kids participate in fitness activities.
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