Poker Players

josh arieh

Josh is a 29 year old poker professional whose style is becoming more and more popular with the young generation of poker players. He combines intuition, relentless aggression...

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john barch

John has been playing poker now for twelve years and he is coming off of a tremendous run at this year's World Series of Poker. He made it to the final table and ended up in third place...

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daniel bergsdorf

Daniel is a 27 year old professional poker player who left his job as a truck driver to take poker up on a full time basis. This former professional athlete made the most of his first appearance at...

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andrew black

Andrew is a 39 year old Charity worker who now lives in Dublin, Ireland. Andrew was an accomplished poker player, but he took a five year hiatus after the 1997 World Series of Poker. Andrew joined...

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Andy Bloch

Andy got serious about poker after he graduated from MIT with 2 Electrical Engineering degrees in 1992. While he was working in an engineering job, Bloch would occasionally play poker at Foxwoods Casino...

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farzad bonyadi

Freddy is a 46 year old professional poker player that just won his third World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2005 event. Freddy came to the United States by way of Iran in 1983. He had a career...

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doyle brunson

Doyle started playing poker in college at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. Doyle was a superb athlete and was drafted to play for the Minnesota Lakers before a knee injury ended his dream...

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todd brunson

Todd is a 35 year old poker player who has won 10 major events in his lifetime. Todd just won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in the $2500 Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or better. Given the greatness...

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andre boyer

Andre started to play poker when he and his wife moved to Vegas once they retired. Andre is now 62 years old and he is a regular at the tournament tables. He got started playing mostly...

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johnny chan

Johnny Chan is one of poker's most well known player's. He just added to his legendary status in the poker world by just winning his tenth World Series of Poker bracelet, breaking the mark of nine...

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david chiu

David is a 44 year old World Series of Poker Champion. David took home the title in the $5,000 Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or better event. David is a former restaurant owner and has been a professional now for many years and he has wrapped up...

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hoyt corkins

Hoyt was born in rural Alabama where he grew up taking after school poker lessons from his father. His father taught him his "no fear" style of playing. His aggressive playing style and ability to read opponents...

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paul clark

Paul has been playing high stakes poker for the last fifteen years. He is best known for his aggressive, no fear style of play. He has put together a solid career to date that has him listed 62nd on the...

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T.J. cloutier

T.J. Cloutier is one of the greatest tournament poker players of all time. He is considered the best poker player never to have won the World Series of Poker. He started playing poker back in high school. T.J. was a gifted athlete...

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allen cunningham

Allen is one of the lesser known great poker players on today's professional circuit. At 28 years old he is already a World Champion in 7 Card Stud and he just recently won a bracelet in the $1500 No Limit Hold'em event at the 2005...

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steve dannenmann

Steve is a 38 year old accountant and mortgage broker that became this year's World Series of Poker's Cinderella story. Steve finished in second place and this is coming from a guy who only plays...

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paul darden

Darden's ultra cool hip hop style has made him a favorite with World Poker Tour viewers. Darden learned to play poker as a child in the back room of his father's pool hall. During a trip to Atlantic City...

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quinn do

Quinn Do is a 29 year old semi-professional poker player. Quinn came to the United States when he was eleven years old. As time went on Quinn's life took its first major detour when he dropped out of University to open a restaurant in Seattle...

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martin de knijff

Martin began playing poker at the age of 19 when he moved to Stockholm, Sweden. He learned the game from reading Doyle Brunson's book "Super System". Martin is also a professional bridge player...

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antonio esfandiari

Antonio moved from Iran to the United States when he was nine years old. Antonio started working as a professional magician when he was nineteen. After working for about a year as a magician...

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sam farha

Sam came to the United States in 1977 when a Civil War broke out in Lebanon. He settled in Kansas and ended up graduating from Friends University in Kansas with a degree in Business...

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chris ferguson

Chris began playing poker with his childhood friends. During his college years, he would often compete for play money on IRC and take road trips to Las Vegas. Chris is a top professional poker player...

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layne flack

Layne Flack was born in South Dakota and grew up in Montana. Layne got started in poker as a dealer. He eventually opened up a cardroom in a casino in Bozeman, Montana. Layne is becoming a prolific poker player...

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eric froehlich

Eric is coming off of a win and his first bracelet at the World Series of Poker. Eric took down an impressive field to win the $1500 Limit Hold'em event. He made World Series of Poker history with his win as he became the youngest player to ever win...

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noel furlong

Noel began playing poker in 1984, and he made his first trip to the World Series of Poker in 1989 and he finished in sixth place in the main event. Ten years later Furlong's biggest win would come in the 1999...

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isaac galazan

Isaac is a relative newcomer to the world of poker. However, he will no longer be considered a newcomer by his peers with the bracelet he has around his wrist after winning the 2005 WSOP $2500 Short-Handed No Limit event. Isaac is...

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phil gordon

Phil entered the professional poker world via the high-tech industry. After entering college as a national merit scholarship finalist at fifteen years old, Phil graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology...

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lawrence gosney

Lawrence is a 41 year old real estate developer who just started playing poker two and a half years ago. Now he is a holder of a World Series of Poker bracelet as he erased the field in...

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maciek (Michael) gracz

Gracz is a young tournament poker star that learned the game by watching his father until he began playing regularly while he was a student at NC State. Gracz seems to possess a level of maturity beyond his 24 years at the poker table...

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barry greenstein

Barry began playing poker with his father at the tender age of twelve. Barry has always excelled in math and science as he received his B.S. in computer science and he worked on his PhD in mathematics at the University of...

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hassan habib

Hassan began his professional career in poker in the late 1990s. Hassan was a regular at the big cash games before he played in his first tournament in 2000. He believes that his success at the tables...

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joseph hachem

Joseph Hachem is a 44 year old poker player who just won the 2005 World Series of Poker Main Event. It was a remarkable run for the man from Australia...

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gus hansen

Gus is thirty years old and is a relative newcomer to the World Poker Tour. Gus began his competitive card playing as a professional backgammon player before joining the professional poker circuit. Gus is very selective...

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phil hellmuth

Phil is one of the most talked about poker players in the game today. Not necessarily because of his tremendous talent, but because of his personality. He is a very flamboyant and very dramatic...

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steve hohn

Steve is a 56 year old professional poker player. In 1995, he quit his job as a stock trader in order to take up poker on a full time basis. He competed and eventually won the longest ever seven card stud...

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phil ivey

Phil was born in California, but grew up in New Jersey where he started his pro poker career in Atlantic City. Phil has fast become one of the most recognizable faces in poker, and one of the most dangerous...

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cliff josephy

Cliff is a 37 year old semi-retired stock broker, and is a tremendously skilled No Limit player. Cliff might not be a household name to the live tournament scene but he is a bit of an online legend...

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john juanda

John Juanda is 33 years old and now resides in Los Angeles, California. John played his first game of cards while flying with a friend from Indonesia to the United States in 1990. He began playing poker in 1996...

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mel judah

Mel first learned to play poker from his father when he was fourteen years old. Mel used to be a Vidal Sassoon hairdresser, and since he has retired from that profession he competes on the poker tournament...

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aaron kanter

Aaron just attended his first World Series of Poker and he made a strong run at the title coming up just a little short, but it was a great finish in 4th place. Aaron is 27 years old and he is now a former loan officer. Aaron began playing poker...

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thomas keller

Thomas is a 25 year old poker professional who has made a lasting impression on the poker world. Thunder as he is known took just three years to earn an economics degree at Stanford. He started playing poker...

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brad kondracki

Brad is a 24 year old Law Student at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been playing poker for only two years now, and this game has helped finance his education by playing online...

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phil laak

Phil was first exposed to big bet poker in 1999 in New York City at an "underground" club and has adapted to this style of game relatively quick. Phil likes the fact that tournament poker involves...

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scott lazar

This 42 year old production assistant for independent films just finished playing in his fourth World Series of Poker and he battled through many gruelling days and hands in order to make it to...

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tuan le

Tuan has not been playing poker professionally for very long but he is quickly climbing the rankings and is now becoming a name that fans and fellow professionals are keeping an eye on. Tuan is quickly developing...

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erick lindgren

Erick grew up in Northern California, where he developed his competitive instinct at an early age. He was MVP of his league as a shooting guard in basketball and an all league quarterback. These competitive instincts...

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mike matusow

Mike became involved in the poker industry when he picked up a job at a Vegas casino as a dealer. Mike started to play in some late night Omaha games at Sam's Town Poker Room and he became seeing some serious...

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chris moneymaker

Most people recognize Chris for being the 2003 Main Event champion at the World Series of Poker. He was an internet qualifier through the PokerStars.com online card room. He was able to turn a $40 investment...

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edward moncada

Edward has been playing professional poker for three and a half years now. He puts in a lot of time playing online poker. He is constantly trying to improve his game by playing online as well as receiving some helpful advice from...

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carlos mortensen

Carlos was born in Ecuador and currently maintains dual citizenship after living for years in Spain. He played in his first World Series of Poker in 1999, on a complete freeroll. He was backed by fellow poker players...

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daniel negreanu

Daniel is the reigning "Player of the Year" in professional poker. He quit high school to play poker full time. Daniel was confident he could make a good living playing poker, so he moved to Las Vegas...

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men nguyen

In 1978, Men escaped from his harsh surroundings by boat and made his way to the United States, straight to L.A. The master started playing poker in 1985 when he and a friend took a short trip to Vegas. He lost almost...

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scotty nguyen

Scotty came to the United States from Vietnam when he was 14 years old. After spending a year in Chicago he moved to California where he grew up and was introduced to the game of poker. His table presence...

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david pham

David is a 43 year old poker player that is playing out of California these days. David is the cousin of noted poker player Men "The Master" Nguyen. David began working for Nguyen's cleaning business...

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john phan

John is 30 years old, he is originally from Vietnam and he and his family moved to Northern California when he was a child, and he now resides in Long Beach, California. John has been playing poker since he was 16 years old and he started playing poker full time when he was 21. He became serious about poker...

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paul phillips

Paul was a top executive at an internet company when he hit the jackpot and received a huge payout. He is a mysterious warrior at the poker table, he is always talkative, and usually gets involved in big...

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pat poels

Pat Poels is a 37 year old first time winner at the World Series as he took home the bracelet in the $1500 Omaha Hi/Low event. Pat is a father of three who has been playing poker for a few years now. A year ago he approached his wife to discuss...

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greg raymer

Greg began his poker career back when he was in college playing "nickel-dime" poker with his fellow fraternity brothers. After he completed college and law school, Raymer took up playing blackjack and card counting at...

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dan schmiech

Dan is a 44 year old professional poker player that just made a big impact on the poker world by winning the $5000 Limit Hold'em event at the 2005 World Series of Poker. Prior to playing poker...

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erik seidel

Before Erik became a professional poker player he was a competitive backgammon player, and he spent eight years on the backgammon professional circuit. Once he finished up playing on the backgammon circuit he moved on to work...

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mark seif

Mark has been playing poker for quite a while now as he was first introduced to the game when he was seven years old in his parent's house. Mike graduated from UCLA and studied law at Loyola University law school. Before he became a professional...

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jan sorensen

Jan was a professional soccer player for twelve years before suffering a career ending knee injury. He learned how to play poker while traveling on the road in between soccer matches. Soon after his injury...

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dave ulliott

Dave got his start playing cards when he was fourteen years old and he started playing poker at eighteen. He would play cards with his friends on flat tombstones in a cemetery. Devilfish is one of the most feared players...

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stu ungar

Stu Ungar is known as the best card player of all time and he is a three-time World Series of Poker Main Event Champion. Stu set up shop in Las Vegas in 1976, and it did not take him long to get banned from the casinos for counting cards...

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robert varkonyi

Robert first started playing poker while he was an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After his graduation in 1983, he got a job as an investment banker in Brooklyn, New York and worked...

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david williams

David is considered one of the young guns in professional poker today. He is currently attending Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He is finishing up his last year there and plans on moving to Los Angeles...

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brian wilson

Brian is a real estate agent that just picked up his first World Series of Poker title and bracelet. He displayed tremendous poker skills in knocking out a large field in order to win the $5,000 Pot Limit Hold'em...

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todd witteles

Todd is coming off one of the most impressive World Series we have seen in a long time. Todd is 33 years old and he just played in his first two events in a World Series. He finished third in his very first event (event 4) and then won his second...

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annie duke

Annie started playing poker at the age of 22 with coaching from her brother Howard Lederer. During graduate school, Lederer invited her to Las Vegas and during the trip he taught her...

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clonie gowen

Clonie is a relative newcomer to the world of tournament poker. Clonie rushed onto the scene by following up her top 10 finish at the WPT Costa Rica Classic with a win at the 2003 WPT...

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jennifer harman-Traniello

Jennifer is not only the best female poker player in the game today she is becoming one of the best poker players in general. She started playing the game of poker at the age of eight...

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kathy liebert

Kathy made her mark in poker by becoming the first woman to win a tournament with the first prize of a million dollars or more. She was once a Dunn & Bradstreet executive...

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evelyn ng

Evelyn got her start in the card scene as a blackjack and poker dealer in private clubs in Toronto. Evelyn has been working on her game with her tutor Daniel Negreanu...

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jennifer tilly

Jennifer is an actress that just made card playing history in Las Vegas at the 2005 World Series of Poker by becoming the first celebrity to win a bracelet. Jennifer says she got into...

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