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Mark Radoja

Canadian poker player (born 1985)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 7, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Mark Radoja is a Canadian professional poker player. He has won two World Series of Poker bracelets.

As of 2013, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,500,000. $1,469,638 of his winnings have come at the WSOP.

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Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mark, Radoja and Canadian providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Mark Radoja” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.