While workingtowards a degree in civil engineering degree at UCLA, Allen Cunningham began playing poker in a serious manner. Little did he know at the time, that Civil Engineering was not to be his calling in life.
After a slow start, Allen got his big break in 1999. It proved to be an incredibly successful year for Allen when he won six major tournaments, not the least of which was the prestigious Legends of Poker. Allen decided not to pursue his degree and dropped out of UCLA to play poker professionally.
Cunningham is a 29-year-old professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada. He is one of the most accomplished poker player of today’s final nine of the WSOP 2006 main event.
Allen has won four WSOP gold bracelets – for Seven-Card Stud in 2001, Deuce-to-Seven Lowball in 2002, No-Limit Hold’em in 2005, and another No-Limit Hold’em championship in 2006. Allen burst onto the poker scene back in 1998 as one of the young guns – along with Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Layne Flack, John Juanda, and others – who have collectively revolutionized the game of poker with their talent and ambition.