Korosh Nejad
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Korosh Nejad (born Korosh Arshadnejad) is an Iran
Iran
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ian professional poker
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player based in London
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, England
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Nejad has played for over 30 years, but first came to the public attention with three impressive performances in the Stakis Festival in London
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during May 1999 where he had a 2nd place finish in a £100 Pot Limit Omaha tournament, a 1st place finish in a £100 Seven Card Stud tournament and a 4th place finish in a £250 No Limit Hold Em tournament. During the festival he made over £7,000.
He went on to make regular appearances on the Late Night Poker
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television show. In the third season he won a tournament featuring Charalambos "Bambos" Xanthos
Charalambos Xanthos
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, "Gentleman" Liam Flood
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, Ram "Crazy Horse" Vaswani
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and Hemish Shah
Hemish Shah
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. He also won a tournament in the fifth season, which featured Joe "The Elegance" Beevers
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, Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliott
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and Julian "The Kid" Gardner. He went on to finish 2nd to Padraig Parkinson
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in the Series 5 Grand Final.
Korosh finished as runner-up to Neil "Bad Beat" Channing
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in his heat of the 2005 World Speed Poker Open
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