Famous Gamblers
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Jan 27th 2009 |
| Kosta "Gus" Sengos - Wearing a Big Ring and a Smile |
| Kosta Sengos wears a big ring and a smile; he smiles because he recently won $230,000 dollars and a trip to the WSOP. He also won on top of the money the ring at the Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa at a Circuit event. Read more |
| Ted Forrest: Smiling, Calling, Raising, and Winning |
| Jesse May says he first considered Ted Forrest a freak because of his playing style. Read more |
| Daniel Negreanu: Says he's to short for the NBA |
| At just 30, but with a poker experience of 15 years, Negreanu has accomplished more than other poker players would in their entire life. Read more |
| Phil Ivey: Says his wife helps him in everything he can't do and that is a major thing for him. |
| Ivey played the game more than ten years, and he first played in casinos at the age of 17 using a fake ID. Read more |
| Gus Hansen considers it's good to be a contender |
| Gus is a Danish poker player and he is very skilled in what he does even if in Denmark the game is prohibited. Read more |
| Sam Farha |
| The ideal poker player has lizard eyes and a cigarette dangling from his mouth, he looks like a Vegas Shark' that's the way most would describe him anyway. Read more |
| Mike Matusow: "The Biggest Guts in No-Limit" |
| Matusow is considered the best Omaha player in the world, currently having two WSOP bracelets. People discuss about him, but not because of his skills in gambling. Read more |
| Chip Reese:The best play is not always the mathematically correct one |
| David "Cheep" Reese's fame comes from being one of the best Seven Card Stud players in the world, but also from his contribution to Doyle Brunson's "Super System". Read more |
| Marcel Luske: I entertain when I feel good |
| Luske is entertaining and that is like one of his trademarks, besides his poker skills of course. He was once called the European Scotty Nguyen.Read more |
| Dutch Boyd |
| Russ skipped a couple of classes when he was 11 and then he was only 13 when he graduated with his Associates degree. Read more |
| Allen Cunningham |
| Allen Cunningham was recently voted one of the best poker players under the age of 35, so if you haven't heard of him before, you will probably do now. He started playing poker in casinos at the age of 18, and he even dropped college to pursue his dream of becoming a professional poker player. Read more |
| David Ulliott: "On The Devilfish!" |
| Everybody chanted for Nguyen and shouted On the Master. All but one person that started to shout On the Devilfish. Read more |
| Howard Lederer |
| He was good at chess but playing poker seemed more attractive so instead he played more poker. He played during the night, because he worked during the day and always ended up losing. Read more |
| John Juanda |
| John Juanda is also called Mr. Nice Guy because of his personality; everybody that talks with him can't say a bad word about him because he is always calm and kind to the persons around him. He is like this because he knows luck is on his side. Read more |
| Antonio Esfandiari |
| Antonio Esfandiari managed to become a professional poker player growing in a country where the fact if holding cards in your hands was prohibited by the law. Read more |
| David Williams |
| David Williams is one of the most famous poker players in the world even if he hasn't managed to win a tournament yet. In 2004 he finished on the second place... Read more |
| Layne Flack |
| Flack is just a straight poker player, that's what he does; he does not like to appear in front of the camera to often. Read more |
| T.J. Cloutier |
| An injury sent him back to the poker table, and he realized that poker brought him more money than a regular job. Read more |
| Ellix Powers |
| Before the poker enjoyed such success, many poker players were strangers, travelers, looking for a quick way to make money. In our days the game is different, now most of the times the winners are just regular people that want their 15 minutes of fame. Read more |
| Cliff Josephy |
| The online poker creates great poker player, a fact proven by the winners of the last three WSOP tournaments. All these three winners played the game online very much. But there are players that play the game both online and "offline" not just when they are in a major tournament. Read more |
| John D'Agostino |
| John D'agostino is a young player that makes the veterans do what they hate the most: lose. He has knocked out of tournaments many skilled players, players way older than him, and most of the times John managed to make it to the final table. Read more |
| Barry Greenstein |
| Barry Greenstein is also called the Robin Hood of Poker. He has a very long poker career, and has been playing the game since the 70's, winning many games but he became famous only in 2003. Read more |
| David Benyamine |
| David Benyamine is a former athlete that had to end his tennis career due to an injury. But he didn't do what others former athletes would do, that is to talk about their former glory and what if. David chose to play other less physically demanding sports and he was very good at them. Read more |
| Phil 'Unabomber' Laak |
| Phil Laak has worked for many years in the gambling industry, first as a sports bet broker, then as a market speculator and then as a Real Estate investor. Laak is from Dublin, Ireland. Read more |
| Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi |
| Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi is a poker player that doesn't belong in the old poker player's pattern: middle aged, with a face that reveals the story of his life. In fact Michael was born in the middle eighties and he spent a good time making different things than playing poker. Read more |
| Steven Dannenmann |
| Steven Dannenmann is a Mortgage Banker and a Certified Professional Accountant. Those jobs suit him and help especially since he won $4.5 million and also the 2005 WSOP second place. You can see he has a lot of money to count. Read more |
| Richard Lee |
| Richard Lee is from San Antonio, Texas and he wanted everybody to know that at the 37th annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, when he wore a San Antonio T-shirt. Read more |
| Paul Wasicka |
| Paul Wasicka had an appearance at the final table of the World Series of Poker 2006 main event. He was the winner of $6 million, money he won when he won 2nd place, and he said in the interview offered to the officials that he is grateful for his friends and for his family and for the money he just won. Read more |
| Rafi Amit |
| Rafi Amit is one of those players that have won the golden bracelet at WSO tournaments, but not on the main event, yet still they are champions. Amit won in 2005 the Limit Omaha event at the WSOP. Read more |
| Hoyt Corkins |
| Hoyt Corkins took a long brake from poker, 11 years more specifically, after he won the 1992 WSOP in the Pot Limit Omaha event... Read more |
| Gabe Kaplan |
| Gabe Kaplan is one of those poker players that did not dreamed about making a living out of poker. Gabe was born in Brooklyn, NY and his dream was to become a professional baseball player. Read more |
| Ram Vaswani |
| Ram Vaswani started playing poker since he was a child, when he used to play against his schoolmates for candies. He got bored of poker, and he chose to play snooker, a game he liked, but the game wasn't very profitable Read more |
| Andrew Black |
| Andrew Black is starting to emerge as a poker start internationally after he has been successful in his country, Ireland, for an amount of time. He was at Trinity College in Dublin, studying for a degree, in 1986 when he started playing poker regularly Read more |
| Todd Brunson |
| Todd Brunson is the second generation of a successful poker player. He gained success as soon as he entered in the professional tournaments, proving that poker skills can also be inherited from the parents, not just the physical or psychical attributes. Read more |
| Erik Friberg |
| Erik Friberg, from Stockholm, Sweden played poker most of the times online, until he was 23 when he managed to qualify to the main event of the 37th annual World Series of Poker. Read more |
| Erik Seidel |
| Erik Seidel became very famous after he played in a movie, but his current profession was of a poker player. Erik started playing backgammon but that game didn't suit him so he became a broker. Read more |
| Brian Wilson |
| Brian Wilson is starting to become a personality in the world of professional poker. He has a good nature and a dodged determination which can help him. Brian is well known for his ability at the poker table: to talk. He talks while he plays and he does it very effective. Read more |
| Scott Lazar |
| Scott Lazar also a.k.a Magic, got his nickname not from his magic at the poker table, but because of his former job, a magician. Scott lives in California and before playing poker, the job that suits him the best, he was a magician and a production assistant for an independent film company. Read more |
| Tuan Le |
| Tuan Le plays in the tournaments opposite of what most players would play. He plays extremely aggressively and tries to take his opponent's money instead of playing very tight and take care of his chips. Read more |
| Men Nguyen |
| Men "The Master" Nguyen is a man who started with nothing, but he decided he will change that. He faced every obstacle and difficulty and he managed to pass them successfully. Read more |
| Nikolaos "Nick" Frangos |
| Nikolaos "Nick" Frangos is one of those poker players, that are new to the game, but they manage to steal the spot light of the most experimented and known poker players. This is something common in our days, just like Chris Moneymaker's situation, an unknown person who managed to win the WSOP. Read more |
| Arnold Spee |
| In order to become a good poker player, you must prepare yourself and work hard, not physically but mentally. Arnold Spee is one of those players that do so and knows that it is in his benefit, and that he has an advantage toward his opponents Read more |
| Pat Poels |
| Pat Poels started playing poker when he was in a very difficult situation: he quit his regular job, he had a wife and three kids and in order to win the Omaha High Low event in the WSOP he had to beat the remaining players, all 699 of them. Read more |
| Julian Gardner |
| Julian Gardner tried to do what his father did, and that was to be a professional cards player. In this situation, many children that try to become successful in what their parents were, fail, but Julian didn't became successful right away. Read more |
| Daniel Alaei |
| Daniel Alaei says that his goal is to achieve maximum evolutionary potential, whatever that means. One thing is for certain about him, and that is his success. He has won money from 28 different tournaments and... Read more |
| Doug Kim |
| Most of the poker players that compete in major tournaments such as WSOP are sports middle aged, meaning they are around 22 years old. 20 years ago, such a thing was unheard of and 10 years ago was strange. Read more |
| Lee Watkinson |
| Prior to poker Lee Watkinson was a surfer and a wrestler, two sports that somewhat are helpful at the poker table. Trying to keep you balance on the waves is similar to trying to keep your balance at the table due to the constant changes that occur Read more |
| Minneapolis Jim Meehan |
| Minneapolis Jim Meehan is famous for his catchphrase "We're all God's children", that he often says at the table, but also for the hat he wears and by the fact that he always has a shot of whiskey in hand. Read more |
| Mark Vos |
| Mark Vos is another Australian that managed to do so when he won the Event 6. Read more |
| Minh Ly |
| Minh Ly is the latest of the successful Vietnamese poker players like Chau Giang, David Pham, Men Nguyen and Young Phan. Ly was a welder who moved to Vegas to pursue a poker career. He started slowly, building his bankroll and then he moved to high limit games. Read more |
| Paul Phillips |
| Paul Phillips is a very lucky man, and he says his wife Kathleen is the reason for the luck. In 2003 at the Bicycle Casino's $5000 Buy-In Legends of Poker No Limit Hold'em Championship he finished on the 2nd place, competing against 309 other players and he won $453,000. Before that his biggest win was of $95,000. Read more |
| Max "The Italian Pirate" Pescatori |
| Max "The Italian Pirate" Pescatori is an Italian from Milan, but who stayed in Vegas for the last ten years. He always wears a headscarf, which was the reason for his nickname. Max was an expert at seven card stud until a friend advised him to play Hold'em. Read more |
| Kenna James |
| Kenna James is a very polite person but a very great poker player. He says that behaving at the table is what every player should do and he considers that a player represents himself by the way he acts when he lays the game. Read more |
| Hasan Habib |
| Hasan Habib is a Pakistan, a tennis player and a poker one, not a combination you will find to often. He was born in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1962 and he became a tennis champ when he was young. Read more |
| Mark Seif |
| Mark Seif is one of those poker players that don't rest after a victory; they immediately plan on winning another one, just like most of the teams do in the case of winning a championship. That represents a good competitor. Read more |
| Gavin Smith |
| Gavin Smith represents Canada in a somewhat unusual category, and that is poker. Not too many professional poker players from Canada have been successful but Gavin manages to be very effective, making his way up in the ranks. Read more |
| Jeff Madsen |
| Jeff Madsen is considered by many the true winner of the 37th annual World Series of Poker, even if Jamie Gold was the real winner. Jeff is 21 years old and he is a film student. Read more |
| Hans "Tuna" Lund |
| Hans "Tuna" Lund has two WSOP bracelets and also he is in the Hall of Fame, making him one of the most respected poker players. He has never won the WSOP though, and has started playing the game since 1977...Read more |
| Chris Karagulleyan |
| Chris Karagulleyan was born in Beirut, Lebanon, a place that most won't associate with Texas Hold'em, but Chris proved to be one of the most successful poker players of his generation. Read more |
| Quinn Do |
| Quinn Do is one of those players that have an extra job on top of being a professional poker player. He has a restaurant in Seattle, being the only owner than can praise with a golden bracelet. Read more |
| Jay Heimowitz |
| Jay Heimowitz can say he became rich thanks to poker. Not from money won in major tournaments but with money from poker games. He invested the money he won playing poker while he was in the army. Read more |
| Chris Bigler |
| Chris Bigler is from Switzerland, the country which is most associated with money, banks and other money related things. Chris was a business man at first, he did that for a while, but at one moment he decided to quit. Read more |
| Andy Bloch |
| Andy Bloch is a poker player that graduated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a famous university for sending the best and brightest students that can be found in the country. Read more |
| Ron Rose |
| Ron Rose is a successful poker player, but that's not what he did his whole life. In fact the journey to a poker player has been a very long one. He worked as an entrepreneur before playing in the poker tournament in 2000. Read more |
| Denis Ethier |
| Denis Ethier is the player that won the 2005 WSOP at the Seven-Card Stud High Low event, a poker variation which existed long before Hold'em, but is often neglected. That is great about poker tournaments; each poker variation has a spot under the sunlight. Read more |
| Miami John Cernuto |
| Miami John Cernuto has had a life full of pressure even before he became a professional poker player. That helped him very much as poker is stressful even when it's played regularly in a casino, but especially when it's televised and it's a high stakes game. Read more |
| Kirill Gerasimov |
| Kirill Gerasimov comes from a country where the most popular card game can be translated as "a fool": Russia. But Kirill emerged as the best and the only professional Russian player. Read more |
| Kassam "Freddy" Deeb |
| Kassam "Freddy" Deeb is a poker player that knows his strengths and knows that he can win if he really wants to. He is really confident when he is at the poker table, and that confidence might come from the past he had. Read more |
| Josh Arieh |
| Josh Arieh can be described by words such as brash, aggressive, extremely self-confident and controversial. These words apply to his gaming style but also they come from the 2004 World Series of Poker when he had an attitude which bothered many players. Read more |
| Dewey Tomko |
| Dewey Tomko was born in 1946 and by the time he was 18, he was making money, but not like other teens of his age from regular work, but from poker. He played in the Pool Halls of Pittsburgh, PA. Read more |
| Tony Hartmann |
| Tony Hartmann is from Minnesota, a very cold place to live in. There is not much to do outside, so he decided to play some indoor activities: poker and he became very good at it. Read more |
| Henry Tran |
| Henry Tran is one of those players that were inspired by Moneymaker's success. Henry always liked poker and he always wanted to play it, but was doubtful that he would have a chance. Read more |
| Andy Nguyen |
| He played for 14 hours before the final table was established. He won the title as champion, but also the WSOP golden bracelet and $83,390, twice as the year before. Read more |
| Billy Baxter |
| Billy Baxter is both a pool and a poker professional player. These two games resemble in a certain way, but they are also different on others. They both require skill, the ability to make calculated moves and to size up the odds. Read more |
| Robert "Chip Burner" Turner |
| Robert "Chip Burner" Turner has been in the poker business for 25 years and during this time he has won a WSOP bracelet and the respect of everyone in the industry. Robert is from Huntsville, Alabama, but since 1986 he lives in Vegas. Read more |
| Amir Vahedi |
| Amir Vahedi was Ben Affleck's first poker coach and helped him win the 2003 California Championship. Read more |
| Dan Nassif |
| Dan Nassif is from St. Louis, Missouri, he is 33 years old and he is a sales executive. He made it to the 37th annual World Series of Poker at the Rio Hotel, something he never dreamed of. Read more |
| David Pham |
| David Pham is the cousin of Men "The Master" Nguyen, and has taken a long walk to get where he is now, a professional poker player. Read more |
| Rob Hollink |
| Rob didn't played poker for a long period of time before that success. He played more athletic sports like soccer, tennis and basketball. Read more |
| Surinder Sunar |
| Surinder Sunar was born in Dhinpur Punjab, India and he was first introduced to the poker fans at the British TV show Late Night Poker. Read more |
| O'Neil Longson |
| O'Neil Longson is a player that is not satisfied with WSOP participation. In fact he has much participation, and not even a win could make him satisfied. Even if he won the event and all the money he would return again next year. Read more |
| Harry Demetriou |
| Harry Demetriou has been successful in everything he did, all of his businesses were successful and so did poker. His secret: just old fashioned hard work, lots of training and very much seriousness. Read more |
| Adam Schoenfeld |
| Adam Schoenfeld is a player that uses fact and his good observation to be a successful poker player and he doesn't depend on luck at all. Adam is from Queens, NY and he worked for a considerate period of time as an investor and Associated Press reporter. Read more |
| Mark Newhouse |
| Mark Newhouse born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina started playing poker when he was 18, with his family. His brother advised him that poker is a good choice, so he started... Read more |
| Robert Williamson III |
| Robert Williamson III had a bariatric weight loss surgery and he lost more than 200 pounds. He says that surgery was life saving, because now he can do things he couldn't do before. Read more |
| Farzad Bonyadi |
| Farzad Bonyadi had instant success when he started playing poker. He started from the bottom then made his way up to the ranks. Then he won the WSOP and he managed to do it more than once. Read more |
| Alan Betson |
| Alan Betson is a very funny person; in fact he has been named one of the funniest poker players by Card Player Magazine. But Alan has more than humor at the table; he has skill as well, skill which assured him a golden bracelet. Read more |
| Michael Binger |
| Michael Binger finished on the third place at the 37th annual World Series of Poker which was held in Vegas at the Rio Hotel. Read more |
| David Colclough |
| David Colclough is very passionate about poker in fact he loves the game very much, almost as if he were obsessed by it. He had a career in IT, but he decided to quit it in order to play poker. Read more |
| Lars Bonding |
| Lars Bonding, born in Denmark is a very successful player in both poker and backgammon. He managed to succeed in both his passions. Read more |
| Chau Giang |
| Chau Giang was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1965 and now currently resides in Las Vegas, which are very opposite town, in every aspect. He left his country by boat and once he got in the U.S he struggled for a while to achieve the success he currently has. Read more |
| Humberto Brenes |
| Humberto Brenes is known for his personality both at the table and away from the table. He has a charisma when he plays the game and also he has a personality that makes you love him. Read more |
| John Hennigan |
| John Hennigan was a pool player for many years, and when he couldn't make money from poker anymore he witched to playing poker. He was successful and he could be seen in the first televised World Poker Tour where he made it to the final table. Read more |
| Scott Fischman |
| Scott Fischman is a very young poker player, he is only 21 but he has been living in Vegas since he was 12 when he moved from South Jersey so is no wonder that he became a poker player. Read more |
| Ron Stanley |
| Ron Stanley also known as the Carolina Express lives in Henderson, Nevada but his nickname got nothing to with Carolina. He isn't from Carolina, and there isn't even a train route between Las Vegas and Carolina. Read more |
| Ralph Perry |
| Ralph Perry is confident every time he enters in a casino because he knows he has played in high stakes games for a very long period of time, for 14 years more exactly because he started laying in 1992. Read more |
| Erick Lindgren |
| Erick Lindgren was very competitive since he was a teenager. He was born in California and he used his competitive personality on the field, playing basketball and football. Read more |
| Rusty Mandap |
| Rusty Mandap is a professional poker player from Hawaii. He works as a tournament director at the Hawaiian Garden's Casino, and even when he is not working he is involved in... Read more |
| Eli Elezra |
| Eli Elezra is a gut that doesn't quit his job no matter what. He is a successful poker player, has played in many tournaments and won a lot of money, he won $1 million by winning the WPT Mirage Poker Showdown in 2004 Read more |
| David Chiu |
| David Chiu was born in China, but now he lives in Roland Heights, California. He is a very aggressive player and he is a very difficult player to beat. Read more |
| Jim McManus |
| Jim McManus is a respected journalist and writer for Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times and other publications, but he is also a professional poker player and not many know this about him. Read more |
| PaulMaxfield |
| Paul Maxfield is an English poker player from Staffordshire which became in the United States and had success at the table. Paul was born on January 29th, 1957 and before he became a professional poker player he had a business with his brother. Read more |
| Mel Judah |
| Mel Judah learned poker from his father; it was like a legacy or a family secret his father wanted to pass to his son. He learned the fundamentals of the game from an early age and that helped him a lot in his adult life Read more |
| Barny Boatman |
| Barny Boatman can be called a "well traveled" person meaning that he has moved from place to place has change jobs very often and has lived his life a day at a time. Read more |
| Frankie O'Dell |
| Frankie O'Dell gets much respect at the poker table because of his size but also because of the skill he has. Frankie is from Denver, Colorado and he only likes to lay Omaha, and he is very good at it. Read more |
| Wendeen Eolis |
| Wendeen Eolis proved that women can also be successful at poker, and that is not just a man's game, and she did this by finishing in the money at the WSOP tournament. Read more |
| Tom Schneider |
| Tom Schneider decided to pursue a career in the game he loves the most, poker, after he has worked in other domains for a period of time: a certified public accountant, and a president and chief financial officer of three Arizona-based companies. Read more |
| Jeff Cabanillas |
| Jeff Cabanillas was just 22 years old when he participated in the 37th annual World Series of Poker. Read more |
| David Singer |
| David Singer lives in Mamaroneck, New York but he was born in Brooklyn, New York where he worked for several years as a nonprofit lawyer for an environmental agency. He likes to play poker in New York private clubs but he also likes to play at the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut. Read more |
| John Gale |
| John Gale is primary an online Texas Hold'em poker player but he has made from tournaments more than $1 million like many youngsters who played the game in the 37th annual World Series of Poker. Read more |
| Matt Matros |
| Matt Matros is a very bright man. He was valedictorian of his high school class; he has a degree from Yale and attended the Sarah Lawrence College. But he chose to play professional poker. Read more |
| Jeff Kimber |
| Jeff Kimber, born in London is a very good poker player and knows how to hide his tells. What is interesting about him is that he learned playing the game online, before that he didn't knew a thing about it. Read more |
| Dr. Max Stern |
| Poker is not just about finishing in money, and Dr. Max Stern knows that very well. Certain qualities and strategies are required, knowing when and how to act Read more |
| Randy Holland |
| Randy Holland gets paid to travel and have fun, and he isn't a pilot or a flight attendant, he is a professional poker player Read more |
| Maureen Feduniak |
| Maureen Feduniak is a professional poker player but she never dreamed of becoming one when she was younger. Read more |
| Mary Jones |
| Mary Jones is a poker champion, and everybody knows it. She won the 37th annual World Series of Poker Ladies Event, managing to beat the defending champion Jennifer Tilly. Read more |
| Benjamin Lin |
| Benjamin Lin has something from both those categories he is a 31 years old account from Rockville, Maryland and a part time poker player. Read more |
| Nam Le |
| Nam Le is a poker player that proves that the heritage also exists in the world of poker. Tuan Lee, the famous poker player and successful at the WPT is his cousin. Read more |
| Sharon Goldman |
| Sharon Goldman is a great poker player and it is a pleasure to watch her play the game. She is very successful and her husband Dan doesn't mind that, in fact he is happy when she plays. Read more |
| Blair Rodman |
| Blair Rodman is a poker player that in 1985 switched places from one end of the table to another. He was a dealer and became a poker player, which was a very smart move for him. Read more |
| Tom Franklin |
| Tom Franklin or Captain Tom as he is called has played in the WSOP tournaments for more than ten years, reason why he got his nickname. Read more |
| Barry Shulman |
| Barry Shulman was a real estate agent in Washington before he realized that poker was his passion and decided to change his career into a professional poker player. Read more |
| James Richburg |
| James Richburg a Long Beach, California native started playing poker on 1991, when things were very different from now. The Binion family owned the WSOP and it was still held in Las Vegas at the Horseshoe casino. Read more |
| Clare Miller |
| Clare Miller played together with her husband in the 2006 World Series of Poker Seniors Event. She was more successful than him, she managed to win the competition and her husband finished on the 40th place. Read more |
| Jon Friedberg |
| Jon Friedberg has a MBA (masters in business degree) from Pepperdine University and we could say that he is really taking care of business at the poker table as well. Read more |
| Rafael Furst |
| Rafael Furst is not one of those players, in fact he likes to reveal as much as possible about him, and everyone can do that by reading his blog (rafefurst.com). Read more |
| Rocky Enciso |
| Rocky Enciso is a professional poker player and he plays the game for a considerate amount of time. Even so many like to compare this Rocky with the one we know from the movies. Read more |
| Richard Chase |
| Richard Chase is a player that has heard many remarks about his name. People like to make jokes about it, or call him like the famous actor Chevy Chase who's also a poker player. Read more |
| Rick Rossetti |
| Rick Rossetti is from Linwood, New Jersey, is a 37-year-old roofing contractor and he has won the Harrah's WSOP Circuit tour in Atlantic City in December 2006. Read more |
| Scott Clements |
| Scott Clements is a professional in everything he does and considers poker just a business as well. He says that the only way to be successful is to be a winner or to have a strong strategy. Read more |
| Eric Froehlich |
| Eric Froehlich is a young man who made an impact at the poker table. In 2005 at the WSOP in Event 4, a Limit Hold'em game Eric was the winner, becoming the youngest player to win a WSOP bracelet. Read more |
| Michael Gracz |
| Michael Gracz became a college graduate in 2004, making his mother's dream come true. Not only that but he also started making serious money from poker. Read more |
| Stan Goldstein |
| Stan Goldstein started betting since he was of legal age. It was in his blood, he betted on everything he could horses, boxing, cockfights, dog racing and so on. He was in high-school when he first played poker, and he had a very aggressive style of play. Read more |
| Lyle Berman |
| Lyle Berman has accomplished many things in poker: he was inducted into the Poker Hall Of Fame, and he was one of the founders of World Poker Tour show. Read more |
| Raymond Davis |
| Raymond Davis became successful when he won the Larry Flynt's Poker Challenge in March 7th, 2003. Read more |
| Chip Jett |
| Chip Jett was born in 1974 in Scottsdale, Arizona. He worked for a while as a life guard but that job didn't suit him. Read more |
| Martin De Knijff |
| Martin De Knijff bets for a living and it is only natural for him to know when and what to do at the poker table. Martin was born in 1972 in Gothenburg, Sweden but he moved with his family to Falkenberg in 1977. Read more |
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