Alfredo ��Toto�� Leonidas was born in the Philippines in 1960 and has over $3 million in tournament earnings. After moving to California, where he now resides, Leonidas began frequenting card rooms and learning poker. His skill level increased and the nickname ��The Ripper�� was soon given to him due to his aggressive style of play.
Throughout the 1990s, Toto had a lot of success in smaller buy-in events throughout the West Coast. He had his first WSOP cash in 2000 when he finished ninth in the $2,000 No-Limit Hold��em event. At the 2002 WSOP, he cashed three times with one second-place finish for over $67,000.
Leonidas continued to grind and upon returning to the WSOP felt in 2003, had his eyes on winning a bracelet. In the first event has cashed in, the $1,500 Seven-Card Stud event, Toto did just that. He won the event, receiving his first gold bracelet and nearly $100,000. He went on to cash five more times that year, including two final tables.
At the 2003 United States Poker Championship in Atlantic City, Toto bested a final table that included Mark Appleman, John Hennigan, Phil Hellmuth, and Erik Seidel to take home the $388,080 first-place prize.
In 2005, Toto continued to put up solid performances. He placed third for $60,000 in the Bay 101 Shooting Stars of Poker PPT event and also cashed four times at the World Series. Amongst those cashes was a second place in the $2,000 Limit Hold��em event for over $160,000. Another $100,000 rolled in when he placed second in the FullTilt.net Poker Global Poker Challenge in Las Vegas.
In 2006, Leonidas had somewhat of a down year when he earned only $84,374 in tournaments. Things increased the following year when he took home over $230,000 total from tournaments in 2007 and then almost quadrupled that in 2008 with over $860,000 in winnings. He is also a Full Tilt Pro.
