It's that young, excited, almost unassuming face. Shannon Shorr looks more like a contented college student than what he really is. From a star baseball player at his Birmingham, Alabama high school, to his civil engineering studies at the University of Alabama, Shannon Shorr emits talent in all of his endeavors. Dropping out of college usually means settling for low-paying mediocre jobs for most - but not for 21-year-old Shorr. He is now a professional poker player who is careening towards superstardom in his chosen sport.
Shannon Shorr retains close ties to the place he calls home, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Yet his move to professional poker has kept him globetrotting and on the road in hot pursuit of live tournament action. In no time at all he has made an incredible mark - already holding the #2 spot in world live tournaments. Shorr's impressive and sudden entrance into the poker scene has been flocked by one success after another. At his first major live tournament, the Australian Poker Championship he walked away with $203,000 and a fourth place finish. Shortly after that win he took second place at the Canadian Poker Championship in the Bahamas and won $75,000. He has seen a profit of $40,000 at Lake Tahoe's WSOP circuit events as well as two Bellagio tournament wins resulting in $77,000. His shining achievement thus far was the $650,000 WPT prize, and crystal Bellagio trophy earned during a $10,000 Bellagio Cup event. Other sizzling wins include a third place finish in Atlantic City No Limit Holdem tournament which brought in $51,000 for the young star and a $9,000 win and an eighth place finish in London. If Shorr continues his quick ascent into the upper ranks of poker at this pace - it will not be long before a few gold bracelets adorn his wrists.
