21 Facts About Faraz Jaka

Faraz Jaka has reached two WPT final tables, six WSOP final tables and his lifetime tournament winnings exceed $10 million.

In 2023, Jaka won his first WSOP bracelet in the $1,500 Shootout No-Limit Hold'em event, marking a significant milestone in his poker career.

Faraz Jaka is the founder of JAKA Coaching, a poker training site launched in 2021.

Previously, Faraz Jaka was involved in the creation of Checkraise, a poker site aimed at the Brazilian market, live between 2017 and 2019.

Faraz Jaka is from San Jose, California and is of Pakistani descent.

Faraz Jaka attended Piedmont Hills High School, and during this time, Jaka ran track, breaking 2:00 in the half mile and 4:30 in the mile.

Faraz Jaka played for the basketball team, wrote poetry and became an avid hip-hop fan.

Faraz Jaka often says it was during this time that he developed the competitive spirit and mental fortitude that would help him in his poker career.

Early on, with little knowledge of the game, Faraz Jaka had a habit of playing any two suited hole cards with the intent to draw to a flush.

Faraz Jaka embraced the tag, adopting it as his online alias, and the moniker has stuck ever since.

Faraz Jaka found early success in high-stake online cash games, soon building his bankroll to more than $170,000 during his sophomore year in college.

Faraz Jaka has thirteen cashes at the World Poker Tour, including five final tables.

Faraz Jaka made a deep run in the $25,000 WPT Championship event where he finished in 14th place earning $51,736.

At the World Series of Poker, Faraz Jaka achieved a major career milestone in 2023 by winning his first gold bracelet in the $1,500 Shootout event at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.

Faraz Jaka conquered a field of 987 players to claim victory and earned $237,367.

In 2017, Faraz Jaka made other two final tables, cashing a total of five events this summer, which totaled over $272,000 in winnings.

At the North American Poker Tour in 2010 in the $25,000 Invitational High Roller Bounty Shootout, Faraz Jaka came in fifth winning $95,000 which includes the bounties that were won.

Faraz Jaka led the tournament on day 2 and at the beginning of the final table.

Between 2017 and 2019, Faraz Jaka launched a poker site called Checkraise in the Brazilian market.

Faraz Jaka declared in an interview that he worked over 50 hours per week on this project, dedicating less time to playing poker.

Since 2021, Faraz Jaka has been running JAKA Coaching, his own poker training site, where he runs weekly live lessons and has an ever-growing collection of training videos.