Mike Sexton is best known as the host of the World Poker Tour – but he is so much more. An author, commentator, promoter and player, Sexton is widely regarded as the chief ambassador in the game today. Read more »
Mike Sexton – Poker Player Profile
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Kathy Liebert – Poker Player Profile
Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Kathy Liebert spent most of her life on Long Island in New York, New York. When it came time to make a college choice, Kathy decided on Marist College and was able to graduate with a degree in Business and Finance from there. With her degree in hand, Liebert was fortunate enough to land a nice job with Dun & Bradstreet analyzing stocks. Read more »
Mike Matusow – Poker Player Profile
When speaking of poker players who have been just as great at making a name for themselves with their words as they've been with their play, Mike Matusow would have to rank right at the top of the list. In fact he has been nicknamed "The Mouth" for his brash talk and questionable antics at the table, which could oftentimes be construed as bullying. Read more »
Huck Seed – Poker Player Profile
If you're looking for Huckleberry Seed at a poker tournament he's not that hard to find. You probably won't notice him because he's not an excessive talker at the table or a great self-promoter who draws attention to himself wherever he goes. Rather, you'll notice the quiet, mild-mannered Huck Seed because of his 6'7" height. Read more »
Erik Seidel – Poker Player Profile
While he may not be one of the names called when people discuss the best players in the game today, the highly underrated Erik Seidel is a player that, if not considered one of the best today, certainly should be in the running for that as well as the best of all time. Read more »
Chip Reese – Poker Player Profile
Before his untimely death, Chip Reese was one of the most feared players on the felt. For over thirty years Reese was the epitome of the "old school" poker player, always in control of his emotions whatever the game and stakes in play. These talents at the tables have led many to call Reese one of the greatest players that the game has ever seen. Read more »
Jennifer “Jennicide” Leigh – Poker Player Profile
Young poker star Jennifer "Jennicide" Leigh is the embodiment of the multi-talented, multi-tasking internet generation: a successful poker player, she is also famous for posing for Playboy, has a reputation as a hacker and a high ranking as a World of Warcraft player, and is releasing a clothing line. On top of all of these achievements, Jennifer Leigh has just signed a deal with Iron Duke Poker. Read more »
Barry Greenstein – Poker Player Profile
Barry Greenstein is a unique and cherished member of the poker community. Not only is he the only poker player to have won at least 3 WSOP bracelets and 3 WPT events, he's the only player to give all of the money won from those 3 WSOP victories and 3 WPT victories to charity. For more than a decade, Greenstein aka "Robin Hood of Poker" has been donating every penny of his tournament winnings to children's charities. That would mean that Barry has given away about $8 million. Read more »
Phil Ivey – Poker Player Profile
Phil Ivey was born in California in 1976, but his family moved to New Jersey when he was months old. Growing in a city famous for its gambling, Ivey's family wanted to prevent him from becoming another hustler, so his grandfather famously cheated Phil Ivey while teaching him to play Five-Card Stud at the age of 8. But Ivey was not discouraged, and he was playing for money as early as 16. Read more »
Craig Marquis – Poker Player Profile
Some players get their fifteen minutes of fame at the WSOP Main Event final table and are never seen from or heard from again. 2007 WSOP Main Event champion Jerry Yang is a good example of that. Read more »
Scott Montgomery – Poker Player Profile
The third largest stack in the 2008 November Nine (the WSOP Final Table) is a young Canadian player with the perfect poker pedigree: Scott Montgomery, born in 1981 to a card-playing family in Perth, Ontario, grew up to study mathematics at the University of Waterloo (like other poker legends such as Bill Chen.) Read more »
Peter Eastgate – Poker Player Profile
Young Danish pro Peter Eastgate could make history at this year's WSOP – at 22 years old, he could beat Phil Hellmuth's record as the youngest player to win the Main Event (Hellmuth was 24 at the time.) Eastgate looks every bit as young as he is, and a definite advantage of all the publicity stemming from the Final Table is that he probably will not be carded as often when entering a casino. Read more »
Kelly Kim – Poker Player Profile
Kelly Kim will enter the November 9 WSOP Main Event Final Table as a significant short stack with 2,620,000 in chips, about 8,000,000 less than the next shortest stack. Read more »
Ivan Demidov – Poker Player Profile
Ivan Demidov is the latest in a series of Russian natives finding incredible success at the WSOP. Last year's WSOP saw Russian pro Alexander Kravchenko win the first bracelet in Russian history to go along with 6 other cashes, while this year saw Nikolay Evdakov obliterate the previous single WSOP record of 8 cashes by making 10 cashes himself. Read more »
Dennis Phillips – Poker Player Profile
Dennis Phillips was a truck driver. At 53 years old, the St. Louis native has worked his way up from behind the steering wheel to behind a desk and now serves as an account manager for a trucking company. Read more »
Darus Suharto – Poker Player Profile
Darus Suharto could be a blast from the past: the former accountant based out of Toronto, Canada gained entry to the WSOP Main Event by first winning an $80 satellite on Poker Stars. He parlayed that victory into another Poker Stars satellite victory; a $640 tournament for a Main Event package. Accountant, satellite entry into the WSOP Main Event paid for by Poker Stars – this could be easily mistaken for Chris Moneymaker's pre-Main Event victory resume. Read more »
David Rheem – Poker Player Profile
David Rheem is a successful tournament pro based out of Miami, FL. His trademark sunglasses and hooded sweatshirt disguise an extremely talented up and coming player. Read more »
Ylon Schwartz – Poker Player Profile
Curly-haired New Yorker Ylon Schwartz is a career hustler: he started playing chess on the streets in Manhattan when he was 13 before widening his repertoire to pool and horse betting. A friend suggested that if he wanted to be a real hustler he would have to master several games, so he also took up poker and backgammon. Read more »
Tiffany Michelle – Poker Player Profile
Tiffany Michelle has many aces up her sleeve: poker player and commentator, actress, singer and even certified massage therapist – there seems to be nothing she can't do. Michelle made headlines for being the last woman standing in the 2008 WSOP Main Event (she was knocked out in 17th place) as well as for allegedly ditching her sponsors (Poker News) for Ultimate Bet. Read more »
Patrik Antonius – Poker Player Profile
With the looks of a runway model and the physique of a professional athlete, Patrik Antonius sticks out like a sore thumb at most poker tables. Yet behind the stunning façade hides one of the sharpest poker brains of the new generation – Antonius has been compared to Phil Ivey by Barry Greenstein, who also called him "one of the biggest winners in the history of online poker." Read more »
Stu Ungar – Poker Player Profile
Stu Ungar, the brightest star in poker, blazed his way through circuits and tournaments with a superhuman poker skill till he ended his days as a burnt-out supernova in a haze of drugs and debt. Born in September 8, 1953 in New York, he came from solid gaming stock: his father Ido Ungar was a loan shark who ran a gambling saloon, familiarizing Stu with gambling from an early age. In spite of his parents' attempts to keep him away from gambling, he won a gin rummy tournament at the age of 10 and by 23 he had earned an excellent reputation as a card player. After his father's death he took up full-time gin rummy to support his mother and sister, and he turned to alleged mafia boss Victor Romano who became a father figure to him, protecting him in the New York back-alley casinos. Read more »
Ted Forrest – Poker Player Profile
Ted Forrest's fans claim he is not only one of the best poker players in the world, but one of the nicest as well, and he is highly respected by his peers because of his manners and poise. One of his biographers, Michael Craig, writes about buying a car with Ted: when asked what he was looking for, Ted replied, "Good AC." This from a man who has won 5 WSOP gold bracelets. Read more »
Sam Farha – Poker Player Profile
Beirut-born Ihsan (Sammy) is famous for his unpredictable poker style, expensive fashion sense and entertaining personality, but mostly for losing to Chris Moneymaker, the poker rookie who made poker an "everyman" game. Read more »
Jeff Madsen – Poker Player Profile
The story of Jeff Madsen's rise to poker power is short – really short. In fact, with the possible exceptions of Stu Ungar and Phil Hellmuth, it is the shortest rise to the top in the history of poker. Read more »
Mark Seif – Poker Player Profile
It's a good thing for Absolute Poker to have Mark Seif in their stable of pros. Not only is the two time WSOP bracelet winner a world-class poker talent (particularly in NL Hold'em) but he's a former attorney. Read more »
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