Steve Zolotow
{{Short description|American poker player and businessman (born 1945)}}
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{{Infobox poker player
| name = Steve Zolotow
| image = Steve Zolotow.jpg
| caption = Zolotow at the 2008 World Series of Poker
| nickname = Stevie Z
The Bald Eagle
Z
| residence = Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
| birth_date ={{birth date and age|1945|3|30}}
| birth_place =New York, New York
| wsop bracelet count = 2
| wsop money finishes = 49
| wsop main event best finish rank = 283rd
| wsop main event best finish year = 2021
| wpt titles = None
| wpt final tables = 1
| wpt money finishes = 10
}}
Steve Zolotow (born March 30, 1945) is an American businessman and professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada. He has won two bracelets at the World Series of Poker. He was one of the regulars at the famed Mayfair Club while he lived in New York City.
New York Years
Zolotow was born on March 30, 1945, in New York City.{{Cite web |date=October 10, 2018 |title=Poker Stories Podcast With Steve Zolotow |url=https://www.cardplayer.com/cardplayer-poker-magazines/66393-san-diego-paradise-ocean-s-11-31-21/articles/23488-poker-stories-podcast-with-steve-zolotow |access-date=April 15, 2021 |website=CardPlayer.com}} Zolotow is the son of the writers Charlotte and Maurice Zolotow and brother of writer Crescent Dragonwagon. He lived in New York City for many years before becoming a professional poker player and moving to Las Vegas. He worked as a businessman, and owns several bars and restaurants in New York City.
He also discovered poker while living in New York and became a regular player at the Mayfair Club along with now well-known poker professionals like Howard Lederer, Dan Harrington, Jay Heimowitz, and Erik Seidel, among others.
Poker career
Zolotow has been on the major poker circuit since the 1980s. From 1985 to 1988, he had five top-nine finishes at the WSOP.{{Cite web |title=16th World Series of Poker - WSOP 1985, Limit 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=88654 |access-date=April 2, 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=16th World Series of Poker - WSOP 1985, Limit Omaha |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=8054 |access-date=April 2, 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=17th World Series of Poker - WSOP 1986, Omaha Pot Limit |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=8037 |access-date=April 2, 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=18th World Series of Poker - WSOP 1987, Pot Limit Omaha |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=8029 |access-date=April 2, 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=19th World Series of Poker - WSOP 1988, Omaha Pot Limit |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=8014 |access-date=April 2, 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}
In the years to come, he would earn bracelets for winning the 1995 Chinese Poker tournament (which also featured Doyle Brunson and Howard Lederer), and for winning the 2001 $3000 Pot Limit Hold'em tournament (which also featured John Juanda, Tom McEvoy, Kathy Liebert, Chris Ferguson and Scotty Nguyen.){{Cite web |title=26th World Series of Poker - WSOP 1995, Chinese Poker |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=7901 |access-date=April 2, 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=32nd World Series of Poker - WSOP 2001, Texas Hold'em (pot limit) |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=3055 |access-date=April 2, 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}
Apart from his successes at the World Series, his biggest cash win to date came for a 4th place on the World Poker Tour's Season 2 PartyPoker.com Million Cruise, which saw him sharing a final table with Scotty Nguyen, Barry Greenstein, Daniel Negreanu and eventual winner Erick Lindgren. Zolotow won $259,684 from the tournament's prize pool.{{Cite web |title=2004 - PartyPoker.com Million III Limit Hold'em, Limit Hold'em Championship Final Day |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=7400 |access-date=April 2, 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}
In 2008, Zolotow competed on NBC's Poker After Dark show which reunited six players from the Mayfair Club. The tournament included Zolotow and fellow professional poker players Howard Lederer, Mickey Appleman, Dan Harrington, Jay Heimowitz, and former Mayfair club owner, Mike Shichtman. Zolotow finished in fourth place, and Heimowitz won the tournament and winner-take-all prize of $120,000.{{Cite web |title=Poker After Dark (PAD) Season IV, Week 6 - The Mayfair Club |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=33406 |access-date=April 2, 2024 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}}
As of 2013, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,200,000.{{Cite web |title=Steve Zolotow's profile on The Hendon Mob |url=https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=250 |access-date=December 18, 2023 |website=The Hendon Mob Poker Database |language=en}} His 49 cashes at the WSOP account for over $1,100,000 of those winnings.{{Cite web |title=Steve Zolotow |url=https://www.wsop.com/players/profile/?playerid=210 |access-date=April 2, 2024 |website=WSOP.com}}
=World Series of Poker bracelets=
| class="wikitable"
! Year ! Tournament ! Prize (US$) |
| 1995
| $5,000 Chinese Poker | $112,500 |
| 2001
| $3,000 Pot Limit Hold'em | $243,335 |
References
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External links
- [https://www.cardplayer.com/poker-players/1331-steve-zolotow Card Player profile]
- [https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=250 Hendon Mob profile]
- [https://www.pokernews.com/poker-players/steve-zolotow/ PokerNews profile]
- [https://www.worldpokertour.com/player/steve-zolotow/ WPT profile]
- [https://www.wsop.com/players/profile/?playerid=210 WSOP profile]
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