Born:

January 17th

Residence:

Miami, FL

Nick Name:

"Tijo"

Alex has won just over $900,000 in poker tournaments to date. His most memorable cash came at the 2005 World Poker Tour Invitational at the LA Poker Classic. Alex won the event and took home $100,000. Alex finished 24th in the 2001 World Series of Poker Main Event, and he also finished runner-up at the $3,000 Limit Hold’em event that same year. Alex has another runner-up finish at the WSOP to his name, finishing second in the $3,500 No-Limit Hold’em event in 1999. Alex has been playing in the WSOP steadily since 1994, and cashed three times at the 2006 six edition in No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Hold’em events.