Faraz "The Toilet" Jaka
- Basic Info
- Birthday
- 09/09/1985
- Team
- Pakistan
- Rank
- Co-Captain
- Statistics
- Career Highlights
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WSOP Bracelets: 0 WSOP Cashes: 10 WSOP Earnings: $583,053 WPT Titles: 0 WPT Cashes: 4 WPT Earnings: $1,433,790
- Lifetime Winnings
- $ 2,305,345
- Bio
- Summary
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Faraz Jaka is known online as “The-Toilet,” a nickname earned early in his poker career due to his affinity toward playing any two suited cards, which resulted in frequent flushing. Jaka has five cashes at the World Poker Tour (WPT) which include two final tables. Jaka’s first final table was at the WPT Season V Bellagio Cup, where he finished runner-up for $774,780 at a table that included top professional and multiple WSOP Bracelet holder Erik Seidel (Team USA). Jaka then made another final table in the same season at the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic, finishing in third for $571,374, behind runner-up Josh Arieh (Team Israel). He also made a deep run in the $25,000 WPT Championship event where he finished in 14th place earning $51,736 At the World Series of Poker (WSOP) has nine cashes, including one final table where he finished in third place at the 2008 World Series of Poker in the $5,000 No Limit Hold’em - Six Handed event and received $400,525. Later at the 2010 World Series of Poker he made it to the quarter-final round of 256 entries in the $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship earning $92,580. In addition to his success in major live tournaments, The Toilet has impressive statistics in the major Sunday on-line events on several different poker websites. He had the incredible accomplishment of winning the UB $200k and the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up in back-to-back weekends, which combined for more than $110k. In November 2008, The-Toilet won the PokerStars $1k Super Tuesday for $78,000 and the Full Tilt Poker $150 rebuy for another $42k. He also caught fire in June 2009; taking down the weekly $1k CEREUS tournament for $39,750 and the Nightly Hundred Grand on PokerStars for $23.8k, then winning the PokerStars Sunday Second Change in late August for $50,000. Faraz Jaka is from San Jose, California, and holds a degree in economics and business management. In addition to being a professional poker player, Jaka considers himself to be a “private investor.”
