# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/russ-hamilton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:40:55.522Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/russ-hamilton"
name: "Russ Hamilton"
slug: "russ-hamilton"
description: "Russ Hamilton is an American poker player. He was the 1994 World Series of Poker main event champion, defeating Hugh Vincent in heads-up play to win $1 million in first-prize money as well as his bodyweight in silver. Following his World Series win, Hamilton served as a consultant for Ultimate Bet, an online poker server. In 2008, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission found Hamilton largely responsible for cheating players on Ultimate Bet out of $6.1 million through software that allowed access to opponents' hole cards. In 2009, Kahnawake increased the $6.1 million estimate to $22,100,000."
tagline: "American poker player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Russ_Hamilton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.11
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.767857333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Hamilton"
    title: "Russ Hamilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%8A%D1%81_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%82%D1%8A%D0%BD_(%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%87)"
    title: "Ръс Хамилтън (покер играч)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Hamilton_(Pokerspieler)"
    title: "Russ Hamilton (Pokerspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Hamilton_(poker_player)"
    title: "Russ Hamilton (poker player)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Hamilton"
    title: "Russ Hamilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Hamilton"
    title: "Russ Hamilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%9F%AC%EC%8A%A4_%ED%95%B4%EB%B0%80%ED%84%B4_(%ED%8F%AC%EC%BB%A4_%EC%84%A0%EC%88%98)"
    title: "러스 해밀턴 (포커 선수)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Hamilton_(pokerspeler)"
    title: "Russ Hamilton (pokerspeler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Hamilton"
    title: "Russ Hamilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Hamilton"
    title: "Russ Hamilton"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1378977"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump