- Frank Scoblete
Frank Scoblete (born 1947) is an American author who has written works on casino gambling such as "Beat the Craps out of the Casinos", "Golden Touch Blackjack Revolution," and "Beat the One-Armed Bandits", with the majority of his books being about the games of craps and blackjack. He has also written under the name King Scobe. He is a frequent columnist in casino gaming magazines and newsletters, …
- David Sklansky
David Sklansky (born 1947, in Teaneck, New Jersey) is a professional poker player and author. Sklansky is generally considered a top authority on gambling. He has written many books on poker, blackjack, and general gambling. His book, the "Theory of Poker", is considered to be a quintessential poker primer. Sklansky has won three World Series of Poker bracelets, two in 1982 ($800 Mixed Doubles, and $1000 Draw Hi) and one in 1983 ($1000 Limit Omaha Hi).
- Mason Malmuth
Mason Malmuth is an American poker player, and author of books on both poker and gambling. He is the owner of Two Plus Two Publishing, which publishes books and runs an online gambling discussion forum. The books are authored by himself, David Sklansky, and other writers including Dan Harrington, Bill Robertie, Ray Zee, Ed Miller, Nick Grudzien, and Alan Schoonmaker
- Doyle Brunson
Doyle Brunson (born August 10, 1933 in Longworth, Fisher County, Texas) is an American poker player who has played professionally for over 50 years. He is a two-time world champion of poker and the author of several poker books. The first player to earn $1 million in poker tournaments, Brunson has won ten World Series of Poker bracelets throughout his career, tied with Johnny Chan for second all-time, one behind Phil Hellmuth's 11.
- Michael Konik
Michael Konik is an American author, television personality, jazz singer, improvisational comedian, blackjack player and poker player. Konik has a degree in Drama from New York University. Konik currently resides in Hollywood, California.
- Phil Hellmuth
Phillip J. Hellmuth, Jr. (born July 16, 1964 in Madison, Wisconsin) is a professional poker player. He is a member of the Poker Hall of Fame and holds the record for most bracelets won at the World Series of Poker(11)
- Ray Zee
Ray Zee is the pen name of the author of "Hi-Lo Split Poker for Advanced Players" and "Seven Card Stud for Advanced Players". Born and raised in New Jersey, Zee is now semi-retired from high stakes poker and makes his home in Montana.
- Dan Harrington
Dan Harrington (born December 6, 1945 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is a professional poker player. Harrington is a former champion backgammon player, U.S. chess master (he won the 1971 Massachusetts State Chess Championship), and bankruptcy lawyer. During his time at Suffolk University, he was part of an MIT team that gained an advantage over casinos at roulette. Shortly after the MIT team disbanded he was part of different one which specialized in blackjack.
- Stanford Wong
Stanford Wong (born 1943) is a pseudonym for John Ferguson, a former professional gambler and gambling author. He is best known for his book "Professional Blackjack", which was first published in 1975 and is still in print. Wong's computer program "Blackjack Analyzer", initially created for personal use, was one of the first commercially available blackjack odds analyzing software.
- Arnold Snyder
Arnold Snyder is a professional gambler and gambling author. He was elected by professional blackjack players as one of the seven original inductees into the Blackjack Hall of Fame for his record as a blackjack player and his innovations in professional gambling techniques. He was the first blackjack authority to publish the importance of deck penetration (depth of the deal) in card counting, in his 1980 book "The Blackjack Formula".
- Jean Scott
Jean Scott is a gambling author who is best known for her 1998 book "The Frugal Gambler". The book features gambling advice for novice gamblers including money management strategies and how to procure the best casino comps and discounts. Scott published a sequel to her first book entitled "More Frugal Gambling" in 2003. In addition to her writing credits, the author markets gambling videos covering topics such as taxation of casino winnings.
- Amarillo Slim
Amarillo Slim (born Thomas Austin Preston, Jr. December 31, 1928 in Johnson, Arkansas) is a professional gambler, famous for his poker skills and proposition bets. He won the main event at the World Series of Poker in 1972.
- Ed Miller
Edward Raymond Miller is a professional poker player and an author of books about poker. He wrote "Small Stakes Hold 'em: Winning Big With Expert Play" with David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth in 2004. In 2005, he completed "Getting Started in Hold 'em", a beginner's book. In 2006, he co-wrote "No Limit Hold 'Em: Theory and Practice" with David Sklansky.
- Anthony Curtis
Anthony Curtis (born Kurt Flowers in 1958) is a well-known blackjack player, gambling expert, and author. He is also the publisher of the "Las Vegas Advisor", a popular newsletter first published in 1983, about getting good deals in Las Vegas. Curtis became interested in gambling at the age of 16 when he received a book about blackjack as a gift. He made his first trip to Vegas shortly after turning 21 in 1979.
- Ken Uston
Ken Uston (January 12, 1935 - September 19, 1987) was a famous blackjack player, strategist, and author, credited with popularizing the concept of team play at blackjack. During the early to mid 1970s he gained widespread notoriety for perfecting techniques to do team card counting in numerous casinos worldwide, earning millions of dollars from the casinos, with some bets as high as $12,000 on a single card.
- Ben Mezrich
Ben Mezrich is an American author from Boston, Massachusetts, who started out writing fiction but now has made his foray into non-fiction. He graduated magna-cum-laude from Harvard in 1991. He has since published eight books which have together sold over a million copies in nine different languages. Some of his books have been written under the pseudonym Holden Scott. Mezrich is best known for his first non-fiction work, …
- Jesse May
"The Voice of Poker" Jesse May is an American poker commentator and player. Jesse May was raised in Madison, New Jersey, where he first became hooked on poker playing with friends. In 1988 he started the University of Chicago, but he found that classes were clashing with his poker games, and so dropped out. For six years Jesse travelled the world playing poker. May found fame presenting the Late Night Poker television series.
- Don Schlesinger
Don Schlesinger is a gaming mathematician, author, lecturer and player who specializes in the casino game of blackjack. His work in the field has spanned almost three decades. He is the author of the book "Blackjack Attack - Playing the Pros' Way", currently in its third edition, which is considered one of the most sophisticated theoretical and practical studies of the game to date.
- Chris Moneymaker
Christopher Bryan Moneymaker (born November 21, 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American poker player who won the main event at the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP). His victory is generally credited for being one of the main catalysts for the poker boom in the years following his win. Moneymaker attended Farragut High School in Farragut, Tennessee and later earned a master's degree in accounting from the University of Tennessee.
- Lee Jones
Lee Jones is the author of "Winning Low-Limit Hold 'em" and a contributor of poker articles to Card Player Magazine. Jones earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Duke University in North Carolina in 1978, and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1983. From October 2003 to April 2007, Jones worked as the cardroom manager of the PokerStars online poker cardroom.
- Henry Tamburin
Henry Tamburin is a gambling author with a background in mathematics and a doctorate in chemistry. He is best known for his book "Blackjack: Take the Money and Run" which explains basic blackjack strategy, managing a bankroll, side bets and advanced tactics like card counting. Tamburin is also well known for his prowess as a blackjack player and frequently teaches courses in blackjack across the United States.
- Avery Cardoza
Avery Cardoza (b. 1957) is an author and publisher. He owns Cardoza Publishing, which claims to be the largest publisher of gaming, gambling and poker books in the world. Cardoza Publishing has over 200 titles, about twenty of them written by Mr. Cardoza himself. He also launched Cardozagames recently, which is a site dedicated to teach people to play poker before they plunge into the online poker world. Avery Cardoza was born in Brooklyn, New York.
- Phil Gordon
Phil Gordon , expert poker analyst and co-host for Celebrity Poker Showdown (a show you really want to miss), is a world-class poker player, adventure traveler, sports fan, and accomplished businessman. Phil has won nearly $1,100,000 in poker tournaments since taking the poker world by storm in the 2001 World Series of Poker championship event where he finished 4th and won $400,000 as well as a spot on the Travel Channel documentary (Inside the World Series of Poker).
- John Grochowski
John Grochowski is a gambling columnist and author. His weekly newspaper column began at the "Chicago Sun-Times" and is now syndicated nationally. He published his first gambling book in 1996 entitled "Gaming: Cruising the Casino with a Syndicated Gambling Columnist". He then began a series of books all aimed at answering questions about a specific topic or game.
- Bob Dancer
Bob Dancer is a video poker expert and gambling author. He is best known for his book "Million Dollar Video Poker" which recounts six years of video poker experiences. The book also details a six-month period, between Sept 2000 and March 2001, in which Dancer and his wife parlayed a six thousand dollar bankroll into over one million dollars playing video poker.
- Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Negreanu (born July 26, 1974 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian professional poker player.
- Mike Caro
Mike Caro (born May 16, 1944 in Joplin, MO) is a professional poker player, pioneer poker theorist, and author of poker books. ... Mike Caro (born May 16, 1944 in Joplin, MO) is a professional poker player, pioneer poker theorist, and author of poker books.
- Barry Greenstein
Barry Greenstein (born December 30, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is a professional poker player. He was exposed to poker at a young age by his father, Jack, who had played poker in the Army. After graduating from Bogan High School, he earned a bachelor degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also studied for a PhD in mathematics, but left before completing his dissertation.
- Michael Shackleford
Michael "The Wizard of Odds" Shackleford (born in 1965 in Pasadena, California) is one of the world's foremost experts on the math behind casino games, and is best known for his website of gambling analyses, The Wizard of Odds. Before becoming known as the Wizard of Odds, Shackleford worked as a claims adjuster and later as an actuary for the Social Security Administration from 1992 until 2000.
- Howard Lederer
Howard Lederer made big strides in his game when he started to play at the Mayfair Club in New York . The Mayfair was a legendary bridge and backgammon club - home to the greatest games players in the world. Howard became part of a circle of players who were the first to experiment with no limit hold 'em in New York when it was first introduced in the mid eighties.
- Barry Shulman
Barry Shulman is the celebrated publisher of Card Player Magazine, which he and many other professional players consider "the bible in the poker industry." Besides being a behind-the-scenes force in the sector of gaming publication, he is also a strong poker player, having won what he estimates to be around a million dollars in games. However, he focuses his energies on his publication rather than on participating in actual tournaments.
- Scott Fischman
Scott Fischman (born 1981 in Langhorne, Pennsylvania) is an American professional poker player based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fischman grew up in South Jersey and moved to Las Vegas at the age of 12. He was introduced to poker by a schoolfriend and went on to become a poker dealer at the Sahara and the Mirage. At the 2004 World Series of Poker (WSOP) he became the youngest person ever to win two WSOP bracelets.
- Bob Ciaffone
Bob "The Coach" Ciaffone (born December 10 1940 in Brooklyn, New York) is the author of "Robert's Rules of Poker", and an American poker player, based in Saginaw, Michigan. Ciaffone finished third in the 1987 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 no limit Texas hold 'em main event, winning $125,000. In that same year, he finished fourth in the WSOP $2,500 pot limit Omaha hold 'em event and fifth in the WSOP $1,000 no limit Texas hold 'em event.
- John Scarne
Orlando Carmelo Scarnecchia (March 4, 1903 - July 7, 1985) was born in Steubenville, Ohio and at some point anglicized his name to John Scarne (International Phonetic AlphabetHe moved to Fairview, New Jersey as a child. Leaving school after the eighth grade, he learned as a teenager from his father how to perform card tricks like Three-card Monte and to gamble using cards and dice.
- Tom McEvoy
Tom McEvoy (born November 14, 1944 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA) is a professional poker player and author. McEvoy was an accountant, but after he was laid off from his job, he took up poker full time in 1978. He first learned to play poker when he was five years old and would regularly get in trouble for playing it in grade school. McEvoy won the 1983 World Series of Poker main event, and still plays regularly today.
- Ron Rose
Ron Rose (born September 4) is an American poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada. Prior to getting involved in the poker tournament circuit, Rose was a mathematician and project engineer in the Air Force. Later he became an entrepreneur who started and sold two computer companies and an internet company. He also held a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and owned his own commodities firm.
- Andy Glazer
Andrew Norman "The Poker Pundit" Glazer (December 28, 1955 - July 4, 2004) was an American poker player, writer, and lawyer who was born in Amityville, New York. He is best known for being one of poker's most prolific tournament reporters.
- Max Rubin
Max Rubin is a gambling expert and author best known for his book "Comp City: A Guide to Free Gambling Vacations". The book teaches players how to maximize casino perks with little actual wagering. Rubin is also a gambling analyst for television. He served as commentator for the first two seasons of the GSN "World Series of Blackjack" along with Matt Vasgersian and co-hosts the "Ultimate Blackjack Tour" with Nick GAS' Mati Moralejo on CBS.
- Julian Gardner
Julian Gardner is a poker player from Manchester, England. Gardner is a second-generation professional, following in the footsteps of his father Dave. He started going to a local casino at the age of 15. By the time he was 20 he had won 10 tournaments. By 21, he had made 25 final tables. In 2000 he entered the World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event for the first time. He tripled up within two hours to become the early chip leader.
- Jeff Shulman
Jeff "Happy" Shulman (born February 18 1975 in Seattle, Washington) is the editor of Card Player Magazine, and an American poker player, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is the son of Barry Shulman. Shulman finished 7th in the 2000 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 no limit Texas hold'em main event, winning $146,700 after losing two big pots to eventual winner Chris "Jesus" Ferguson. He also finished in the money of the same event at the 2003 (31st place).