- Gus Hansen
Gustav Hansen (born February 13, 1974 outside Copenhagen, Denmark) is a professional poker player who lives in Monaco. - Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Negreanu (born July 26, 1974 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian professional poker player. - 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. - 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. - Phil Laak
Phil "The Unabomber" Laak (pronounced "lock"; born September 8 1972 in Dublin, Ireland) is a professional poker player, now residing in San Francisco, California. - Erick Lindgren
Erick Lindgren (born August 11, 1976 in Burney, California) is an American professional poker player. He won his first major tournament at the Bellagio in 2002 and followed that up with his first World Poker Tour (WPT) win ten months later. Six months after that, he won the WPT PartyPoker Million III cruise, where he walked away with the million dollar top prize. In January 2005, he finished 2nd in the World Series of Poker Circuit Event in Atlantic City. - 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. - Carlos Mortensen
Juan Carlos Mortensen (born April 13, 1972 in Ambato, Ecuador) is a professional poker player, known for his loose play, bluffing tactics, and interesting chip-stacking style. Mortensen moved from Spain to America in the late 1990s to play poker. His biggest win was the 2001 World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event, in which he won $1,500,000. He also won the World Poker Tour (WPT) Doyle Brunson North American Poker Championship in 2004 for $1,000,000. - Michael Mizrachi
Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi (born January 5 1981 in Miami, Florida) is an American professional poker player. Growing up, Mizrachi wanted to become a doctor but dropped out of college to play poker full-time. In January 2005, Mizrachi finished 5th in the World Poker Tour (WPT) World Poker Open at a table also featuring Daniel Negreanu and Scotty Nguyen. The next month he won a first prize of $1,859,909 on the WPT, … - Isabelle Mercier
Isabelle "No Mercy" Mercier is a professional poker player. She is known for her tenacious playing style and her striking looks. Prior to turning to a poker career, she earned an undergraduate law degree from the Université de Montréal and practiced commercial law for a year. Then moved to Paris, France and earned a Masters Degree while working as the poker room manager at the Aviation Club de France, before turning to poker full-time. - 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). - Clonie Gowen
Cycalona (Clonie) Gowen (born 1971) is an American professional poker player, based in Dallas, Texas. - Jennifer Tilly
Jennifer Tilly (born September 16, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and a World Series of Poker bracelet winner. - Antonio Esfandiari
Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari (born Amir Esfandiari, December 8, 1978 in Tehran, Iran) is a professional poker player. He moved to San Jose, California when he was 9 years old, along with his family. At the age of 19, he changed his name to Antonio, and became a professional magician. While he was performing magic, he was invited to a game of Texas Hold 'em and started to play poker. In 2004, he won close to $1.4 million at the Commerce Casino. - Scotty Nguyen
Thuan "Scotty" Nguyen (born October 28, 1962 in Nha Trang, Vietnam) <sup> </sup> is a Vietnamese American professional poker player. Nguyen is one of the most active players in professional poker today, and from 2000 to 2004 he finished in the money in more than 100 events. He won the 1998 World Series of Poker main event and has 4 WSOP bracelets overall. - Tony G
Antanas Guoga (born December 17th, 1973 in Kaunas, Lithuania) is a professional poker player. He moved to Melbourne, Australia at the age of 11. He has played since the age of 18, and is known for his outlandish table talk and aggressive play. Despite this, many poker professionals and dealers have pointed out that away from the table, Tony is quite personable and easygoing. He had a fifth place finish in the World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris 2003, … - Paul Darden
Paul "The Truth" Darden Jr. (born October 27, 1968) is an American professional poker player, rap music promoter, and night club owner from New Haven, Connecticut. - Joe Hachem
Joseph "Joe" Hachem (born 3 November 1966 in Lebanon) is a Lebanese-Australian poker player. - Hoyt Corkins
Hoyt Corkins (born Glenwood, Alabama) is an American professional poker player, known for his softly-spoken voice and his aggressive style. He started playing at the age of 19 after receiving lessons from his father. He is usually known by his nickname "Cowboy" as he always wears a cowboy hat and boots to the table. However, he has been given other nicknames, including "Mr Move All-In" by Phil Hellmuth Jr. - Layne Flack
Layne Flack (born May 18 1969 in Rapid City, South Dakota) is an American professional poker player, residing in Montana and Nevada. Flack started playing cards with his grandparents, but became engrossed in the game whilst working at a casino. He would regularly go to another casino after work to play poker. Despite becoming the Night Manager in his job, he quit as he was spending too much time on poker to continue working full-time as well. - Paul Phillips
Paul Phillips (born August 9, 1972 in San Francisco, California) is an American professional poker player, although he has mostly become inactive in recent years, choosing to focus on Scrabble 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. - J. C. Tran
J. C. Tran (born Justin Cuong Van Tran on January 20 1977 in Nha Trang, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player, based in Sacramento, California. Tran was born the youngest of eight children and has a degree in Business Management Information Systems from California State University at Sacramento. Tran has finished in the money at numerous poker tournaments, … - Gavin Smith
Gavin Smith (born 4 September 1968 in Guelph, Ontario) is a Canadian professional poker player. Smith learned how to play cards by playing cribbage and rummy with his father. He started playing poker at the age of 26, playing mixed games with co-workers. He became a poker dealer in 1996 and set up his own poker club in 1998. He has also worked as a taxi driver and on a golf course. - Surinder Sunar
Surinder Sunar (born April 1 1959 in Dhinpur Punjab, India) is an English professional poker player based in Wolverhampton, who first gained fame as a two-time finalist (seasons 1 and 5) in the "Late Night Poker" television series. Sunar also won the season 3 World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris event, defeating Tony G in the heads-up confrontation with A7o. Tony G taunted Sunar before the confrontation, telling him "Surinder, … - 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). - Steve Paul-Ambrose
Steve Paul-Ambrose, (born 1983), is a poker player from Ontario, Canada. Paul-Ambrose won the 2006 PokerStars Caribbean Poker Adventure, a World Poker Tour event after winning his entry spending less than $110 through a satellite tournament. He is a student at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, where he studies business and science. As of 2007, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,700,000. Paul-Ambrose is a member of Team PokerStars.<sup></sup> - Dave Ulliott
David A. Ulliott (born 1 April, 1962 in Hull) is an English professional gambler and poker player. Formerly, Ulliott was a minor figure in the Hull underworld, but went on to become a World Series of Poker bracelet-winner, and a mainstay of televised poker. At the poker table, he is known for wearing orange-tinted prescription sunglasses, a sharp suit (or leather jacket) and gold knuckleduster rings reading "Devil" and "Fish", which he made himself. - Nick Schulman
Nick "The Takeover" Schulman (born 18 September 1984) is an American professional poker player from Manhattan, New York. Schulman began playing at the age of 18, turned professional at 19, and at age 21 won the fourth season World Poker Tour (WPT) World Poker Finals poker tournament, winning $2,167,500, a record for a regular season event on the WPT. He also became the youngest winner of a WPT event. - Freddy Deeb
Freddy Deeb was attending Utah State University when civil war broke out in Lebanon in 1975. He lost contact with his parents (who had been sending him money to support his education) for 2 years. Deeb was unable to gain employment as he was on a student visa so began gambling - Roland de Wolfe
Roland De Wolfe (born 1979 in London) is an English professional poker player and was formerly a writer for the poker magazine "Inside Edge". He comes from a gambling family and used to play pool for money as soon as he looked old enough to get into pubs. He didn't just play pool; he hustled pool - one-handed.. A journalism course, where he met Albion fan Tom Woodgate and Christopher Nye, and a love for gambling sent him into the world of covering poker tournaments. - Alan Goehring
Alan Goehring caught the attention of the public when he came in third in the $3,000 No Limit Hold'Em event at the 1997 World Series of Poker (WSOP). The tournament featured such greats as Chris "Jesus" Ferguson , Kathy Liebert , Dan Harrington and Donnacha O'Dea . Goehring won $61,845 in the tournament. Goehring finished 2nd in the $10,000 No Limit Hold-Em Main Event of the 1999 WSOP. He lost to Noel Furlong , but took home $768,625 for his efforts. - J.J. Liu
Joanne Jishung Liu, known as J.J. Liu by her friends and fans, is a professional poker player. Liu was born and raised in Taiwan. After college, she moved to the U.S. to pursue a master's degree in computer science, graduating from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. Liu went to work for Space Systems/Loral in Palo Alto, California, one of the world's top designers and builders of communication satellites. - Michael Gracz
Maciek ("Michael" or "Mike") Gracz (pronounced Grahtz) (born October 23 1980 in Warsaw) is a Polish professional poker player, based in Raleigh, North Carolina. Gracz learned poker from his father and played regularly whilst studying at North Carolina State University. Gracz's first major victory was in the $5,000 no limit hold'em championship event in the 2004 Trump Classic in Atlantic City. He won over the field of 155 entrants to take home the $295,275 first prize. - Juha Helppi
Juha Helppi (born March 4, 1977) is a Finnish professional poker player from Helsinki. Juha was originally a poker dealer, but made a name for himself in the first World Poker Tour (WPT) event in Aruba, where he eliminated Kathy Liebert on the way to defeating professional player Phil "Tiltboy" Gordon in a heads-up challenge match. He has since made two other WPT final tables, … - 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. - Tuan Le
Tuan Le (born February 15, 1978 in Paris, France) is a professional poker player, known for his aggression and risk-taking. As a child, Le was raised in Kansas City, but by middle school age he was living in Los Angeles, California where he attended John Burroughs Junior High School, on McCadden and 6th Street. He later attended Cal State-Northridge as a finance major. He began playing in the $20/$40 limit hold'em games at the Hustler Casino in Los Angeles, California, … - Eli Elezra
Eli Elezra (born November 24 1960 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli professional poker player, now living in Las Vegas, Nevada. Whilst he was in Israel, Elezra worked as an army commando. He was bedridden by a leg injury; during this time he began playing poker. Since moving to America, Elezra has made numerous money finishes in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Omaha, Texas Hold 'em and Draw events. - Mel Judah
Mel Judah is an Australian professional poker player, also known as "The Silver Fox" (a nickname he shares with fellow poker player Peter Costa). He learned poker at the age of 14 by watching his father play 5-card draw. He has had several noticeable finishes in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the World Poker Tour (WPT). He won World Series bracelets in 1989 and 1997 for the $1,500 and $5,000 Seven Card Stud events. - Nam Le
Nam Le (born September 10 in Irvine, California) is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player from Huntington Beach, California. On March 3 2006, Le won the World Poker Tour (WPT) fourth season Bay 101 Shooting Star event. It was his first major poker win. As of 2007, his total live tournament winnings exceed $3,600,000.
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