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Kaplan is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 31 march 1945 at New York City (USA)

Kaplan

Kaplan
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Nationality USA
Birth 31 march 1945 (79 years) at New York City (USA)

Gabe Kaplan est un acteur, scénariste, animateur de télévision, et joueur de poker américain, né le 31 mars 1944 à Brooklyn, New York (États-Unis).

Biography

Dans sa jeunesse, Kaplan voulait devenir joueur de baseball. Toutefois, il ne parvient à atteindre une ligue majeure et décide de se tourner vers d'autres intérêts. Kaplan commence à travailler dans un hôtel du New Jersey. C'est là qu'il entre en contact pour la première fois avec des comédiens et décide de faire du stand-up. Cela lui réussit puisqu'il est ensuite invité dans l'émission nationale le Tonight Show à cinq reprises. Il sort par la suite un album intitulé Holes and Mello-Rolls.

De 1975 à 1979, il est l'acteur principal de la sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter.

Kaplan a joué pour la première fois aux World Series of Poker à Las Vegas en 1978.

En juillet 2004, il parvient en table finale du World Poker Tour au casino The Mirage de Las Vegas, et a remporté plus de 256 000 $.

En 2005, il termine deuxième à de l'event 5000$ Limit des World Series of Poker, et gagne plus de 221 515 $.

À partir de 2006, il présente l'émission de poker télévisé High Stakes Poker sur GSN, et après six saisons, il est remplacé en janvier 2011 par Norm Macdonald.
Il est également commentateur du National Heads-Up Poker Championship sur NBC, et le Intercontinental Poker Championship on CBS.

En 2007, il participe au tournoi télévisé Poker After Dark, où il élimine Howard Lederer et Annie Duke, entre autres, pour battre Kristy Gazes en heads-up. Il remporte 120 000 $.

En juin 2014, où il a également remporté son prix en argent le plus élevé à ce jour, 258 390 dollars, soit un total de huit.

Au total, en 2018, Kaplan a gagné environ 1,9 million de dollars dans les tournois officiels de poker live.

Usually with

Al Waxman
Al Waxman
(1 films)
Zak Penn
Zak Penn
(1 films)
Henry Gibson
Henry Gibson
(1 films)
Victor Désy
Victor Désy
(1 films)
Don Carmody
Don Carmody
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Kaplan (4 films)

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Actor

The Grand
The Grand (2007)
, 1h44
Directed by Zak Penn
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Documentary
Themes Jeu, Poker
Actors Woody Harrelson, Cheryl Hines, David Cross, Mike Epps, Chris Parnell, Richard Kind
Roles Seth Schwartzman
Rating59% 2.950762.950762.950762.950762.95076
Jack Faro (Harrelson) is a recovering drug addict who had so many relapses, he decided to move into rehab and just live there. Having been married 75 times, he is a serial husband and is always on the lookout for number 76. (He hits on a bartender who informs him that they had already been married, even though he has no idea who she is.). He enters The Grand: a huge Texas Hold 'Em poker tournament in Las Vegas created by his grandfather Lucky Faro (Barry Corbin). His main motivation is to win the $10 million prize to cover a loan he got to keep open his family's casino, The Rabbit's Foot, which his grandfather left him when he died and that he has mismanaged into the ground.
Nobody's Perfekt
Nobody's Perfekt (1981)
, 1h36
Directed by Peter Bonerz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Kaplan, Alex Karras, Robert Klein, Susan Clark, Alex Rocco, Paul Stewart
Roles Dibley
Rating44% 2.236132.236132.236132.236132.23613
Three therapy patients — Dibley (Gabe Kaplan), whose memory often fails him; Swaboda (Alex Karras), who believes that his late mother is still alive and living with him; and Walter (Robert Klein), who has three personalities — want the city to buy them a new car after theirs is totaled by a pothole. Legal means prove to be insufficient, so the three of them hatch a plan to extort the money from the mayor (Arthur Rosenberg).
Fast Break
Fast Break (1979)
, 1h47
Directed by Jack Smight
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Basketball films
Actors Kaplan, Harold Sylvester, Laurence Fishburne, Randee Heller, Reb Brown, Michael Warren
Rating60% 3.048263.048263.048263.048263.04826
David Greene (Gabe Kaplan) is a basketball fanatic living in Brooklyn, NY, who alternates his time between playing in neighborhood pick-up games and managing a delicatessen. He dreams of making his living coaching basketball (David was once a junior high school basketball coach) and has sent numerous letters to colleges in the hope of fulfilling that dream—much to the chagrin of his long-suffering wife Jan (Randee Heller), who wants only to buy a home and start a family. This is a challenge for him.

Scriptwriter