Get to Know Run Good Team Pro Joe Hebda
Joe Hebda, who is in today's field, grew up playing football, basketball, and baseball, and it's safe to say his competitive nature started at a young age.
"I never liked losing," he says. "I started playing poker in high school, right around the time of the Moneymaker effect. I graduated from Andrean high school and then Indiana University with a degree in general studies. The one constant through it all was poker."
Upon graduating, Hebda worked unloading trucks for a grocery store whilst grinding poker online. Eventually he decided to go pro, and over the next six years he amassed over $1 million in online earnings (he won $25K in the Bodog $100K guarantee, runner-up for $47K in the MiniFTOPS $20 Rush Rebuy, and runner-up for $32K in the Bodog Main), not to mention the $317,769 he's amassed in the live realm.
Speaking of his live scores, his biggest to date us $81,774 for a sixth-place finish in the 2011 World Series of Poker Circuit Hammond. He also won $31,793 for finishing fifth in the 2013 Heartland Poker Tour Indiana; $29,400 for 381st in the 2014 WSOP Main Event; and $23,550 for winning a $365 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed event at the 2014 WSOP Circuit Harrahs Tunica, which also awarded him a coveted gold ring.
*Biography and photo courtesy of Run Good Gear.