Charles “Chip” Jett is a tremendously successful poker player who’s been playing the game for most of his life, but didn’t turn pro until 1993. Considered to be one of the top poker tournament players in the world, Chip Jett has earned 91 major tournament cashes over his profound career, including 8 first-place finishes, but has yet to receive a WSOP Bracelet.

Born September 22, 1974 in Scottsdale, Arizona, Charles Jett received the nickname “Chip” as soon as he was born. On the suggestion of a hospital nurse, the alias “Chip” was immediately picked up by his parents and has stuck with him ever since. Jett’s poker career actually began on the other side of the table, working as a poker dealer at an Indian Casino near his home in Scottsdale.

While dealing cards, Chip found himself quickly picking up on the various strategies of the players at his table. Chip decided to put his newfound knowledge to the test, competing at the tables in the same casino where he worked. Over the next 6 years, Jett found himself playing poker for more hours than he spent dealing the game, and quite lucratively at that.

Chip Jett quickly gained a reputation for being one of the strongest, most aggressive poker players in the area, taking down numerous cashes at local poker tournaments. After so many years of success at these small-time events, Chip decided it was time to move on to bigger and better, and substantially more profitable, poker tournaments.

Chip Jett went to Hollywood in 2001 to participate in the LA Poker Classic, where he immediately made name for himself by working his way to 5 final tables. His lasting impression was escalated by the fact that he didn’t just excel in one or two venues, but finished well into the money in a wide variety of poker games, including No Limit Hold’em, Omaha Hi/Lo, 7 Card Stud, 7 Card Stud hi/Lo and H.O.R.S.E.

In the coming years, Chip Jett would earn a current career total of $2,029,443, including 8 1st-place victories and 33 final table finishes. At age 33, Jett’s goal in life is to win enough money that he can kick back on the beach every day, only participating in about 12 tournaments each year.

Chip Jett and the WPT
The World Poker Tour (WPT) has been especially generous to Chip Jett, consisting of 26 career cashes at various WPT events since the very first season. Starting at the World Poker Finals in November of 2002, Chip Jett eliminated the entire field of competition not once, but twice, in Event #9 Limit 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo and again in Event #11 No Limit Hold’em for prizes of $18,870 and $35,700 respectively.

In January of 2003, Chip Jett cashed twice at the WPT Jack Binion World Poker Open, including a 1st place victory worth $129,589, and twice again at the LA Poker Classic in February, including another 1st place finish awarding $47,965. One month later, Chip Jett went heads-up against Howard Lederer at the final table of the PartyPoker Million II. Jett would eventually fall to Lederer, but pocketed $175,900 for the 2nd place victory.

The WPT World Poker Challenge 2003 saw Jett earn another 3 final table finishes, two in 3rd place and one in 6th, worth $9,006 collectively.

In WPT Season 2, Chip Jett claimed another four purses, including a 4th place final table at the Legends of Poker tournament worth just over $100,000, and a $58,196 prize for an 8th position finish at the 2003 Five Diamond tournament. WPT Seasons 3 saw Chip Jett earning another three cashes totalling about $71,000, including an 11th place purse of $50,000 at the Shooting Start Tournament Main Event.

In it’s 4th season, Chip Jett took down another six purses at WPT events, collecting $220,084 for his skilled efforts. The largest WPT cashes of the year came on October 14, 2005 during the Festa al Lago IV, achieving a 2nd place final table finish for $107,900, followed by a 37th place finish of $73,230 at the Five-Star World Poker Classic WPT Championship on April 24, 2006.

Jett cashed once in WPT Season 5, his dullest year on the tour since it’s inception in, earning $27,694 for a 27th place end at the Borgata Poker Classic No Limit Hold’em Championship. Chip Jett has yet to cash in the ongoing WPT Season 6.

Chip Jett and the WSOP
Though not as prolific as Chip Jett’s WPT accomplishments, having won not a single bracelet to date, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) has still had a lucrative impact on Jett’s professional poker career. Jett’s first success with the WSOP came in 2003, cashing in at two final tables with a 9th and 7th place finish worth $6,500 and $6,300 respectively.

The 2004 WSOP was slightly more kind to Jett, again cashing in two events, but no final tables this time. Jett earned $10,360 for a 13th position at a No Limit Hold’em event, and $4,300 coming in 12th playing Limit Razz. At the 2005 WSOP, Jett earned another purse, much more profitable this time, pocketing $99,265 for a final table 3rd place finish playing Event #23, Limit 7 Card Stud.

Jett took home $17,365 for 16th place at a WSOP Circuit event in August of 2005 at the Grand Casino Tunica Poker Tournament, leading up to the 2006 WSOP, in which he accomplished another two cashes, but again no final tables.