birth_place birth_date residence article_title name
new york city , new york , u.s. 1965 las vegas , nevada , u.s. diego cordovez
 diego cordovez
diego cordovez

diego cordovez -lrb- born 1965 -rrb- is an american poker player .
he has won one world series of poker bracelet , and he has 16 wsop cash finishes including 7 final tables .
he has won over $ 1.4 million in career tournament winnings .
his 16 cashes at the wsop account for $ 613,847 of those winnings .
born in new york city , cordovez claims to have been introduced to poker by his first-grade teacher , as a way of making basic math seem like fun .
at the 2000 world series of poker cordovez won the $ 2000 no limit texas hold 'em event , earning more than $ 290,000 and a bracelet .
he defeated english professional poker player and bracelet winner , dave ulliott heads-up to win the tournament .
the final table also included phil ivey , david pham and toto leonidas .
cordovez followed this a couple of months later with another first-place finish at the legends of poker no limit hold 'em event .
in 2002 cordovez cashed in another four wsop events , making the final table in three of them , including a second place in the $ 2000 shoe event , losing to phil ivey .
he also won the limit holdem championship at the los angeles poker open at the commerce casino , at the time the largest limit holdem tournament in history ; first prize was $ 569,430 .
cordovez was featured on espn 's coverage of the 2008 wsop main event at a table which also featured 2003 main event champion chris moneymaker and professional player clonie gowen as well as being interviewed in a segment about his career as a poker player .
cordovez is currently one of the hosts of the spanish-language version of poker after dark , broadcast throughout latin america on discovery channel -lrb- latin america -rrb- .
prior to his poker career , cordovez was co-founder and coo of aveo inc. , a silicon valley online tech support software provider .
cordovez holds bachelor 's and master 's degrees from stanford university .
