Alexander Borteh

{{short description|American poker player}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2019}}

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Alex Borteh is a professional poker player who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in a World Series of Poker event, the $3,000 Limit Hold'em event.{{Cite web |title=38th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2007, Limit Hold'em |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=26178 |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}} Borteh has cashed in four WSOP events and made two final tables. In 2005, he finished in 3rd place in the $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout event. Borteh prefers limit hold'em to no-limit hold'em, considering the former a game that requires more skill.{{Cite web |title=36th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2005, Limit Hold'em Shootout |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=8799 |access-date=2024-03-27 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}

Before becoming a poker player, Borteh finished second at the 2001 World Championship for Magic: The Gathering{{cite web | title=Alex Borteh - Poker Player| website=Pokerlistings | url=http://www.pokerlistings.com/poker-player_alex-borteh?show=bio#pp-bio | access-date=2024-12-26}} This was the tournament in which fellow bracelet winner David Williams was disqualified because of marked cards.{{Cite web |last=Watcher |first=Toby |title=2001 World Championships Coverage |url=http://www.wizards.com/sideboard/article.asp?x=Worlds2001%255c466williamsdq |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010827143405/http://www.wizards.com/sideboard/article.asp?x=Worlds2001%5c466williamsdq |archive-date=2001-08-27 |website=Wizards of the Coast}}

Borteh graduated from Olentangy High School, which is in Lewis Center, Ohio, in 2001. He earned a degree in philosophy from Ohio State University.

As of 2008, his live tournament winnings exceed $320,000.{{Cite web |title=Alex Borteh's profile on The Hendon Mob |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=45528 |access-date=2023-12-05 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}