Gabriel Weston Kaplan (born March 31, 1945) is an American comedian, actor, poker commentator, and professional poker player.
Kaplan was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for his role as Gabe Kotter in the 1970s sitcom, Welcome Back, Kotter . He became known as a poker player, and as co-host and co-commentator for the High Stakes Poker series at GSN.
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As a child, Kaplan has the goal of becoming a Major League Baseball player. However, he can not create a list of minor league teams and decide to pursue other interests. He started working as a waitress at a hotel in Lakewood, New Jersey. The comedian tour will occasionally perform at the hotel, and Kaplan starts working towards his own career as a standing comedian. Gabe honed his standup routine in 1964 in places like Cafe Tel Aviv at 250 West 72nd Street, New York City.
Kaplan's comedy succeeded, and he toured the country with his acting based on his childhood experience in Brooklyn. He appeared five times on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from May 1973 to December 1974. During that time, he also recorded the Holes and Mello-Rolls comedy album, which included a routine which is long about his high school days, among other topics. Sitkom Welcome Back, Kotter , whose main character he helped Eric Cohen and Alan Sacks create and which core format he helped them develop, partly based on comedic action. In the sitcom, Kaplan plays Gabe Kotter, who returns as a teacher to a dysfunctional secondary school where he is a student. The series runs from 1975-1979, and Kaplan buys a home in Palm Springs, California with his income. "Climb your nose with a rubber hose!", Cleared from the original album line "Up your hole with Mello-Roll!", Becoming an impossible slogan from the show. It became so popular that a comedy recording by Kaplan, Up Your Nose , was released by Elektra Records. The record, co-written and produced by Kaplan, stained the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1977, peaking at # 93.
From 1976-78 and again in 1981, Kaplan participated in the celebrity athletic competition ABC Battle of the Network Stars . For the first five competitions, Kaplan is the captain of the ABC network team. In the first competition, Kaplan defeated Robert Conrad, who participated in the event that represented the NBC team as his captain, in a race that deeply disappointed Conrad. The 31-year-old Kaplan, passing Conrad, then 40, with a strong sprint at the finish line, gave ABC the winning network with 175 points. In 1981, Kaplan returned to the competition as team captain for the NBC side, as he appeared on the NBC TV show Lewis & Clark .
After Welcome Back, Kotter , Kaplan continued with a stand-up action and was in several films, including the lead role in Fast Break in 1979; and describes Groucho Marx's comic in a one-man show.
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Poker
Kaplan became involved in financial markets and poker during his acting career. She made her first appearance in the World Series of Poker in 1978. In 1980, Kaplan was considered one of the poker elite, as she won the main event at Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker and presented it with "such a great loving cup." it makes a striking gold bracelet awarded to the winners in the World Series of Poker looking unpretentious. "Over the next five years his reputation grew stronger when he made the last table on the Super Bowl show twice more.
In July 2004, she finished third in the unlimited Texas World Tour tournament, earning over $ 250,000. He also ranks second in the 2005 World Series of Poker, $ 5,000 Limit Hold 'Em, winning $ 222,515. Kaplan was a joint TV commentator for the 1997 and 2002 WSOP events. In 2007, Kaplan won at NBC's Poker After Dark in the episode "Queens and Kings" after defeating Kristy Gazes head-up and outlasting Howard Lederer, Ali Nejad, Vanessa Rousso and Annie Duke in purchases of $ 20,000 in 6 No-Limit Texas Hold-Em-take-all winners Sit-and-Go.
At the World Series of Poker 2007 Kaplan finished in ninth place at the HORSE World Championship event for $ 50,000, winning $ 131,424. In June 2017, Kaplan's direct tournament victory total was reported at $ 1,991,248. Ninth cashesnya in WSOP reported $ 539,159 from the victory.
Kaplan won again in Poker After Dark during the first week's "Cowboys" of the game against Chris Ferguson, Andy Bloch, Chau Giang, Hoyt Corkins and Doyle Brunson. Gabe Kaplan's Poker After Dark won in the first week of the 2010 season ("Commentators III" episode) was the biggest comeback in the show's history.
Next activity
Kaplan again performs stand-up comedy and works on the Adaptation of Welcome, Kotter. He still plays poker and becomes a commentator for poker events and poker events broadcast on television, including NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship , High Stakes Poker at GSN, and Intercontinental Poker Championship on CBS.
In 1995, Her name was mentioned in the 21st episode of "The PTA Disbands" the sixth season of Simpsons as a substitute teacher in Bart's class.
In 2007, he appeared in the improvised comedy Zak Penn, The Grand , as Seth Schwartzman, father of poker players brother-and-brother. Also in 2007, Kaplan published a book entitled Kotter's Back: E-mail from Fading Celebrities to a Confused World . In this book, people react to Kaplan's unreasonable email claims, such that he:
- have slept with more women than Wilt Chamberlain
- is a Cossack dancer
- thinks he's smart enough to be a Mensa member
- wants NASA to send it into orbit with Jimmy Carter and Dr. J
This book also explains the e-mail:
- to the Athens Olympic Committee offers to light the Olympic torch
- to AAA (auto club) about signing up for Alcoholics Anonymous
- to the Metamucil maker suggesting that he show a reckless celebrity in his TV ad
- to Postmaster General offers to have her photo stamped.
In January 2011, the GSN announced that Norm Macdonald would replace Kaplan as the host of High Stakes Poker.
Movieography
References
12. In the episode "The Simpsons" entitled "The PTA Disbands", the name of Gabe Kaplan was dropped from the list of names of substitute teachers Bart had run away.
External links
- Gabe Kaplan on IMDb
- World Poker Tour profile
- Hendon Mob tournament results
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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