Bruce Van Horn

{{short description|American poker player and pathologist}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2024}}

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|name= Bruce Van Horn

|hometown=Ada, Oklahoma

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|wsop money finishes=8

|wsop final tables=5

|wsop main event best finish rank=2nd

|wsop main event best finish year=1996

|multi-year wsop winner=

|wpt titles=None

|wpt final tables=None

|wpt money finishes=1

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Bruce Van Horn is an American pathologist from Ada, Oklahoma with poker tournament experience and success. He is most noted for his 2nd-place finish to Huck Seed in the $10,000 main event at the 1996 World Series of Poker, for which he won $580,000.

In 2007, Van Horn made the final table of the $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em event. He finished in 6th place, earning $36,732.{{Cite web |title=38th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2007, Pot Limit Hold'em |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=26148 |access-date=March 29, 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}} He was also featured in a segment aired by ESPN during the episode where he was at the final table. In the segment, a number of top professional players, including T. J. Cloutier, Scotty Nguyen, and Chris Ferguson, were asked who the second-place finisher at the 1996 WSOP Main Event was. No one knew the answer because 1996 was one of the few years that the Main Event final table was not broadcast. Van Horn commented at the final table, in conversation with some of the other players, that he was happy that this event was being recorded so this time there would be proof that he had made the final table.{{cn|date=March 2024}}

As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $850,000.{{Cite web |title=Bruce Van Horn's profile on The Hendon Mob |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=14499 |access-date=December 24, 2023 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}} His 8 cashes at the WSOP account for $752,099 of those winnings.{{Cite web |title=Bruce Van Horn |url=https://www.wsop.com/players/profile/?playerid=1113 |access-date=March 29, 2024 |website=WSOP.com}}