Mike Conner
Career Summary
On June 21st, 2008, six players sat down for the first tournament the Canterberry Poker League ever held. Mike Conner won it. He knocked out four of the five and took $80 in prize money, and for one evening he was the only man in the league with a win to his name.
The second one took nine years and ten months — the longest gap between wins anybody in this league has ever bridged. And he picked his moment. April 13th, 2018: Canterberry #100, the hundredth tournament in that league's history, and a twenty-five player field, equal to the largest it ever drew. Six knockouts, $175 for first.
The first tournament and the hundredth. No other player owns a pair like that.
Between and after, it has been a long grind. 129 events over eighteen years, 24 cashes, 97 knockouts and $2,021 in career prize money. He has 7 runner-up finishes and nine trips to heads-up, two of them won. His biggest single payday was not a win at all — $325 for third at the 2018 Annual, a month after he took #100.
Mike has played in every era this game has had: eighty-two Canterberry nights, thirty-three Eight Deuce ones, thirteen Annuals. He was there at the very beginning, and he was still turning up at #57 in July 2026.
Lifetime Totals
All events · rank #21 all-timeCareer by League
Finishing Position Over Time
last 15 Regular Season eventsRecent Appearances
last 10 events| League | Event | Date | Finish | Points | Hits | Prize | Hit by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eight Deuce | #57 | 7/10/26 | 15 | 12.5 | — | — | Lance Cain |
| Eight Deuce | #55 | 5/15/26 | 8 | 22.22 | — | — | Rick Mazza |
| Eight Deuce | #53 | 3/13/26 | 19 | 11 | — | — | Lee Ugarte |
| Eight Deuce | #52 | 2/13/26 | 5 | 34.67 | 3 | — | Joe Johnson |
| Eight Deuce | #51 | 1/9/26 | 6 | 35.71 | 3 | — | Andrew Shier |
| Annual | 2025 | 11/15/25 | 9 | 15 | — | — | Eric Denny |
| Eight Deuce | #50 | 10/17/25 | 7 | 22.5 | — | — | Lance Cain |
| Eight Deuce | #49 | 9/5/25 | 7 | 20 | — | — | Paul Coffman |
| Eight Deuce | #48 | 8/8/25 | 4 | 36 | 3 | $135 | Eric Denny |
| Eight Deuce | #47 | 7/11/25 | 11 | 15.83 | — | — | Mike McEvoy |