If you follow tournament poker, or play the game with any regularity, there’s a strong chance you’ve seen quite a few players wearing patches promoting ‘Jaka Coaching.’
Launched in 2020, in the midst of the poker world shutting down, Faraz Jaka kicked off his coaching program with a small, core group. The platform has grown over the last five years from a small group coaching platform into a community of players who consistently post results across buy-in levels, both live and online.
Those prizes include World Series of Poker bracelets, trophies on every major live tour, seven-figure results, and more. And for Jaka, who largely stepped away from poker for several years, his own game has clearly benefited in the process.
Poker fans of a certain age likely remember Jaka from his breakout in 2009. That year, in his mid-20s, Jaka made two televised World Poker Tour final tables at The Bellagio, as well as a deep run at a WSOP bracelet in a $5,000 six-handed no-limit hold’em event.
That 2009 campaign stands as Jaka’s best year of live tournament results to this day. After working on a startup for a few years that took the bulk of his attention, Jaka stepped back into the game. In 2023, Jaka won his long-awaited first WSOP bracelet in the $1,500 shootout, surrounded by his growing community.
Jaka has already cracked the $1 million mark in live results in 2025, making for the second-best year of his career thus far. He took down an MSPT main event at Bally’s Blackhawk to kick off his campaign with a six-figure win, and recently finished second in the PokerStars North American Poker Tour Las Vegas $20,000 high roller for $202,600. That score grew his lifetime haul past the $9.1 million mark.