- 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.
- 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.
- Gus Hansen
Gustav Hansen (born February 13, 1974 outside Copenhagen, Denmark) is a professional poker player who lives in Monaco.
- Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey (born February 1 1976 in Riverside, California) is an American professional poker player.
- Michael Binger
Michael Binger was born in Delray Beach FL on December 20th, 1976. After moving to Raleigh NC at age 12 he began to show an interest in science, math, and competitive games. He attended college at NCSU from 1995-1999 where he graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in physics and a B.S. in mathematics, while simultaneously completing research in theoretical particle physics and earning a Masters degree in physics.
- 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 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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, …
- 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.
- Johnny Chan
Johnny Chan, born in Guangzhou (Canton), China in 1957, now living in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a 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.
- Andy Bloch
Andrew (Andy) Bloch (born June 1, 1969) is a poker player who started playing seriously in 1992, entering some small $35 weekly tournaments once a month. By the end of the year, he had won one of the World Poker Finals tournaments, a $100(US) entry fee no-limit Texas hold'em tournament. That was the first time he ever played no-limit texas hold 'em. In 1997, he skipped the last week of law school classes to play in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event.
- 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.
- 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, …
- 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.
- Kenna James
"Cowboy" Kenna James (born December 18, 1963 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American professional poker player who resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. James has finished in the money at twelve World Series of Poker events as of 2006. Of these, the only final table appearance was 4th place in the 2003 $2,500 no limit Texas hold'em event, for which he won $36,140. James was the only player to win two satellite tournaments for the first season of the Ultimate Poker Challenge.
- 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).
- 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.
- Joe Hachem
Joseph "Joe" Hachem (born 3 November 1966 in Lebanon) is a Lebanese-Australian poker player.
- 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, …
- David Benyamine
Frenchman David Benyamine is best remembered as the winner of the 2003 Grand Prix de Paris. It was the second season of that World Poker Tour (WPT) event, and Benyamine took home a357,200 for his victory. As of 2005, his total live tournament winnings exceed $700,000. Another of his more notable WPT achievements is bagging 6th place at the 2nd season of the 2004 L.A. Poker Classic. Though David Benyamine did not place within the top 5, he walked away with $132,355.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- T. J. Cloutier
Thomas James Cloutier (born October 13 1939) is a professional poker player from Albany, California. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 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.
- Patrik Antonius
Patrik Antonius (born December 13 1980) is a Finnish professional poker player, former tennis player/coach, and model from Vantaa. He currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. Antonius's aggression in tables has earned him respect within the poker community and he is often titled as a heads-up specialist.
- 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, …
- Shannon Shorr
Shannon Shorr (born 1985 in Birmingham, Alabama) is a professional poker player, recently moved from Tuscaloosa, Alabama to Las Vegas, Nevada. Shorr grew up in Birmingham, where he was a baseball player at Shades Valley High School.
- 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.
- Jennifer Tilly
Jennifer Tilly (born September 16, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and a World Series of Poker bracelet winner.
- 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.
- 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.
- Clonie Gowen
Cycalona (Clonie) Gowen (born 1971) is an American professional poker player, based in Dallas, Texas.
- 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.