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Mickey Wernick

Date of Birth : July 2, 1944
Place of Birth : Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
Nickname : “The Worm” and “The Legend Lord Wernick”
Residence : Birmingham, United Kingdom
Total Money Finishes : 7
Career Prize Money : $500,000
Mickey Wernick

Achievements:

  • 1st in 2006 £ 50 Pot Limit Hold'em, Heart Of England Autumn Festival
  • No.3 at 2006 £ 1,000 No Limit Hold'em, Northern Lights, Blackpool
  • No.5 at £ 1,000 Short Handed No Limit Hold'em, Poker 6 Tournament
  • 6th in £ 300 Pot Limit Omaha, The Midlands Meltdown, Walsall
  • 7th at 2006 £ 1,000 Blackpool Championship - No Limit Hold'em

Michael Wernick is a former English bookmaker and a professional card player from England. Wernick was an enthusiastic amateur boxer, and has won the Midlands Area Amateur title. Along with his father, he formed a small poker association in 1970. He was the linchpin of the British poker scene and started jaunting around the World Series of Poker.

Since then, he has cashed in on no-limit hold’em, razz and lowball event for 6 times. In the 1986 WSOP Omaha event, he was placed 2nd.

Poker Career:

In 2003, Mickey made it to the quarterfinals of the 2003 World Heads-Up Poker Championship, but lost to John “Miami” Cernuto.

Across almost all the poker variants in Europe (2005), he stood No. 1. As of this induction, he suited “Elvis Senior” Atkinson's European Poker Players Hall of Fame at No.