Sam Trickett's Biography
Sam Trickett is a professional English poker player from Retford. Before poker he played soccer on a professional basis and even was a member of “Hartlepool United” club. However in 2005 after injuring his knee he had to finish football career and search for a new direction in life. The search didn’t take a lot of time and soon Trickett made his choice – it was poker.
Poker Transformation: From Hobby To a Profession
He got acquainted with this game in a bar while spending time with his friends. Later, he began to play at local casinos and after getting an experience he switched to online tournaments. He started from $10 S'n'G and then proceeded to higher limits.
His first big success in live events was the victory at the Main Event Grosvenor UK Poker Tour in the NLH tournament for $1,060 in 2008, where he got $215,180. 2011 turned out to be quite profitable for him because he earned the sum of over 1 million dollars three times during that year. He earned $1,508,250 for the 1st place at the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne. In the same year, he won at the Main Event Partouche Poker Tour in Cannes and enriched once again with 1,364,666$. The third large amount Sam got for the second place in the tournament Super High Roller NLH for 250 000$ at Aussie Millions Poker Championship 2011 in Melbourne and earned $1,384,630.
In 2013 he won even more - $2,111,400 for the 1st place at Aussie Millions Poker Championship in NLH Challenge tournament for $250,000. For today the largest earning of Trickett is $10,112,000, which he got in 2012 for the second place at WSOP in the tournament The Big One for One Drop for $1,000,000.
In 2016 Sam Trickett joined PartyPoker team and became its ambassador (left in 2021). At the poker room he had a named table with expensive cash game.
Latest News About Life & Career of Sam Trickett
In October 2020, Sam and Mieke Trickett had a son. In the same year, Sam left the ambassador post and paused his poker career to focus on his family. He even stopped posting anything to his social media. It’s known that in September 2024, the family had a daughter, Kaia.
After almost a 5-year break, Sam participated in the Mediterranean Poker Party in 2025. It was the last time poker fans saw him in public. Sam didn’t seem to start active participation in poker soon, but it didn’t prevent him from keeping the high position in the England All Time Money list (3rd).
Interesting Facts About Sam Trickett
- In 2010 Sam got the title “Best beginner” from British Poker Awards.
- In 2012 at the ceremony British Poker Awards in London Sam got three titles: “Player of the Year”, “The best cash-player and “Best tournament player”.
- "Tricky" was in relations with a photo model Natasha Sandhu. He made her a proposal, but a year later the couple broke up, never having entered into a marriage.
- Sam is married to British actress Mieke Dockley for today.
- In 2018 poker player missed WSOP in order to visit FIFA World Cup in Russia.
- In 2018 PartyPoker produced a documentary film about Trickett.
- Sam is a fan of Manchester United.
- As of 2025, Sam is 3rd in England All Time Money ranking. His place in global All Time Money list is 55th.
- According to highstakesdb Trickett gave up high-stakes games on PokerStars and Full Tilt, but his latest graphs in online-cash at the high stakes look like this:
"S3 TRX on Full Tilt:
"tr1cky7 on PokerStars:
Sam Trickett on Social Networks
- Sam Trickett in X, former Twitter (@Samtrickett1)
- Sam Trickett on Instagram (samtrickett7)
