- 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)
- 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.
- Lee Watkinson
Lee Watkinson (born October 18, 1966) is an American professional poker player, originally from Cheney, Washington. At the 2004 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Watkinson finished 2nd in the $5,000 pot limit Omaha event. He also finished in the money of that year's $10,000 no limit Texas hold 'em main event, finishing 113th. Watkinson made back-to-back World Poker Tour (WPT) final tables during its third season. The first time he finished 2nd to Eli Elezra, …
- Erik Seidel
Hello Everyone let me introduce my self. My name is Erik Seidel and i wanna tell you all some things about me you may not be aware of. Im actually known as one of the best No Limit players in the circuit. A skilled high-stakes poker
- Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey (born February 1 1976 in Riverside, California) is an American professional poker player.
- Jamie Gold
Jamie M. Gold (born August 25 1969 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American television producer, poker tournament player, and formerly a talent agent, based in Malibu, California. He was the 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion.
- Joe Hachem
Joseph "Joe" Hachem (born 3 November 1966 in Lebanon) is a Lebanese-Australian poker player.
- Annie Duke
Annie Duke was born in Concord, New Hampshire. Her brother Howard Lederer is also a professional poker player; her sister Katy Lederer is an author and poet. Annie went to Columbia University where she double majored in English and psychology. Annie Duke was awarded a NSF Fellowship to attend graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania to study cognitive psychology, specifically psycholinguistics.
- Jennifer Harman
Jennifer Harman (born November 29, 1964 in Reno, Nevada) is an American professional poker player with a reputation as a cash game player. Lately, she has also forged a name for herself in the tournament world. She won her first World Series of Poker bracelet in 2000 at the No Limit Deuce to Seven Lowball Event (at a final table that also included Lyle Berman and Steve Zolotow). She had never played that game prior to the event, …
- Mike Matusow
Michael Matusow (born April 30 1968 in Los Angeles, California) is an American professional poker player, residing in Henderson, Nevada. Matusow's nickname of "The Mouth" reflects his reputation for trash-talking at the poker table. He is also known for his habit of ruining hours or days of good play with a single spectacular misjudgment, (known as a "Mike Matusow Blow-up" or "Mike Matusow Meltdown"). Matusow began playing poker seriously in the early 1990s, …
- Chris Ferguson
Chris "Jesus" Ferguson (born Christopher Philip Ferguson April 11 1963, in Los Angeles, California) is a professional poker player. Ferguson attended UCLA where he earned a Ph.D. in computer science (focusing on virtual network algorithms) in 1999 after five years as an undergraduate and 13 years as a graduate student. His Ph.D. advisor was Leonard Kleinrock. Ferguson's parents have doctoral degrees in mathematics and his father, Thomas Ferguson, …
- 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.
- Johnny Chan
Johnny Chan, born in Guangzhou (Canton), China in 1957, now living in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a professional poker player.
- Jennifer Tilly
Jennifer Tilly (born September 16, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and a World Series of Poker bracelet winner.
- 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.
- Greg Raymer
Greg "Fossilman" Raymer, born in Minot, North Dakota and raised in Lansing, Michigan, followed a traditional path with his schooling - attending law school and becoming a licensed patent attorney. But his life took a decidedly different turn when Greg tried to use his knowledge and skills to make history. In 2004, Greg won the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Championship and collected the largest purse ever paid to a winner of a poker tournament: $5 million.
- 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.
- Allen Cunningham
Allen Cunningham (born March 28 1977 to Dean and Joanne Cunningham in Riverside, California), United States, is a professional poker player. Cunningham studied civil engineering at UCLA before dropping out of school to play poker professionally. He began playing at 18 in Indian casinos. Cunningham plays online poker exclusively at Full Tilt Poker. Previously a Full Tilt sponsored pro, he became a full member of Team Full Tilt in October 2006.
- Chip Reese
David Edward "Chip" Reese (born March 28 1951) is an American professional gambler from Centerville, Ohio. He suffered from rheumatic fever during his elementary years at school and had to stay at home for almost a year. During this time, his mother taught him how to play several board and card games and Reese later described himself as "a product of that year." By the age of six, he was regularly beating fifth-graders at poker.
- David Chiu
David Chiu (born August 23 1960 in China) is an American professional poker player, based in Rowland Heights, California. Chiu used to be a restaurant owner in Colorado. He took a second job as a poker dealer and later became a poker tournament specialist, who earned a reputation for himself by winning the $2,000 limit hold'em event at the 1996 World Series of Poker (WSOP). He has won 4 bracelets at the WSOP.
- 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.
- John Juanda
Johnson Juanda (born July 8, 1971 in Indonesia) is an American professional poker player based in Marina del Rey, California. Juanda lives in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Indonesia. John arrived in the U.S. in 1990, when he enrolled at Oklahoma State University. He earned an MBA from Seattle University. John was a high school track star for the 200 meter sprints to 5000 meter races. He had a stint as a door to door salesman selling Bibles.
- Ted Forrest
Ted Forrest (born September 24 1964 in Syracuse, New York) is an American professional poker player, currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada. Forrest won three bracelets at the 1993 World Series of Poker (WSOP). After the mid-1990s, Forrest turned his attention full time to cash games. He made a triumphant return to the WSOP by winning 2 bracelets at the 2004 WSOP. Since then he has moved his focus from seven card stud to hold 'em with some success, …
- 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.
- 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).
- Mike Sexton
Mike Sexton (born September 22 1947) is an American professional poker player and commentator.
- David Williams
David Anthony Williams (born June 9, 1980 in Arlington, Texas) is a professional poker and Magic: The Gathering player. He was a student at Princeton University and studied Economics at Southern Methodist University.
- 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.
- 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.
- Steve Billirakis
Steve Billirakis (born May 23 1986 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American professional poker player. Billirakis won the first tournament of the 2007 World Series of Poker winning the $5,000 World Championship Mixed Hold'em Limit/No-Limit event after beating Canadian poker player and former professional hockey player Greg Mueller heads-up. Billirakis won $536,287 and became the youngest WSOP bracelet winner in history, having won the event only 11 days after his 21st birthday.
- Tom Schneider
Tom Schneider (born December 24, 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a professional poker player from Phoenix, Arizona. Schneider was a certified public accountant and former president and chief financial officer for three Arizona companies before beginning his poker career in 2002. He is the author of the book "Oops! I Won Too Much Money: Winning Wisdom from the Boardroom to the Poker Table" which provides lessons for both poker and business.
- Jay Heimowitz
Jay B. Heimowitz (born December 26 1937) is an American poker player from Bethel, New York. Jay was one of the original players that helped establish the Mayfair Club as a premier poker house. He started playing poker for baseball cards at the age of 9. He went on to join the U.S. Army; by the time he left the service at age 21, Heimowitz had won approximately $10,000 playing against his fellow servicemen. Heimowitz used this money to invest in a beer company, …
- Hasan Habib
Hasan Habib 's most memorable performance was his back-to-back final table play in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship Events of 2004 and 2005, in which he finished 2nd and 3rd respectively. In fact, Habib recounts the things he achieved on April 14, 2004 as his biggest poker accomplishment. This was when he placed 2nd in the Bellagio Five Star World Poker Classic, $25,000 No-Limit Hold'em in Las Vegas, and took home $1,372,223.
- Mark Seif
Mark Seif (born October 4 1967) is an American attorney and poker player from Lake Tahoe, California. Seif started playing poker at the age of 7 in his parents' home game, but did not gain public recognition until finishing 4th in the second ever World Poker Tour (WPT) event in August 2002. In May 2003, Seif had his first money finish in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the $3,000 no limit hold'em event, where he finished in 9th place.
- 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.
- David Pham
David "The Dragon" Pham (born February 10 1967 in South Vietnam), is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player.
- Josh Arieh
Josh Arieh is a prominent figure in the international poker scene, who has enjoyed success during the past decade. His winnings total over 3 million dollars, and his matches have been televised on such stations as ESPN, FSN, The Discovery Channel, The Travel Channel.
- 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.
- Max Pescatori
Massimiliano Pescatori (born 1971? in Milan) is an Italian professional poker player. Pescatori is a regular on the poker tournament scene, often placing high in Card Player Magazine's Player of the Year Race. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1994 and began playing seven card stud at the Luxor Hotel, eventually shifting his focus to hold'em when he found it to be more profitable. In 1998 he was mentored by Valter Farina, …