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Poker Pros
Professional Poker
Player Biographies - Read everything you've always wanted to know about your
favorite Poker Pro. These poker profiles contain information about major
tournament wins, cash game wins, where your favorite poker pro lives, who they
hang out with, and even some juicy gossip. This section is a continuous work in
progress and will continue to grow, so please check back often!
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Doyle Brunson |
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Any serious poker
player who is interested in improving his or her skills in this exciting and
challenging game would be well advised to read the book “Super System: How I
made over $1,000,000 playing poker” by Doyle Brunson...
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Johnny Chan |
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Legendary poker player Johnny Chan is currently one of the most famous names in poker, holding ten World Series of Poker gold bracelets. This places him in a tie with another legend, Doyle Brunson, for the most WSOP bracelets won by any player...
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T.J.
Cloutier |
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Thomas James (T.J)
Cloutier is a major player in tournament poker who, like Doyle
Brunson, started out as an athlete. Cloutier was borne in California
in 1939, and attended the University of California at Berkeley on an
athletic scholarship. He played in the Rose Bowl in 1959. After
dropping out of college due to financial hardship, Cloutier was
drafted into the Army....
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Allen Cunningham |
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Some of the best young
professional poker players are individuals with strong technical
backgrounds, often in math, engineering and computer science. One
such player is Allen Cunningham, who studied engineering at UCLA
before dropping out to play professional poker full time...
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Annie Duke |
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Poker enthusiasts
watching ring games at the Bellagio may occasionally be lucky enough to spot
Annie Duke, one of the best and certainly one of the most famous poker
players in the country. Attractive, intelligent and fiercely competitive,
Duke started playing competitive poker in local card rooms in Billings
Montana...
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Chris Ferguson |
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Chris “Jesus” Ferguson
is not only one of the most respected professional poker players in
the world but also one of the most distinctive looking. Chris sports
long black shoulder length hair, a black beard, sunglasses and a
wide rimmed black cowboy hat. His slender build, long black hair and
black beard are what earned him the nickname “Jesus”...
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Ted Forrest |
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Ted Forrest is an
outstanding professional poker player and is considered one of the
finest Seven-card stud players in the game. He is also one of the
most successful high stakes poker players. Forrest is a quiet
player, and does not dress or act flamboyantly as some of the
leading poker player, but he is singularly effective at reading
other players...
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Jamie Gold |
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Jamie Gold, a relative
newcomer to tournament poker, is the winner of the 2006 World Series
of Poker. Gold earned $12,000,000 in the $10,000 No Limit Texas
hold’em main event. This win makes Gold the first person to eclipse
the $10,000,000 mark in tournament poker. The win came after the
elimination of 8,722 other players and almost 16 hours of final
table play....
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Barry Greenstein |
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Barry Greenstein is a
world-class poker player with an interesting and unique history. He
was already a successful systems designer with Symantec before
entering the world of professional poker on a full time basis.
Greenstein was successful enough in his first career that he was
able to retire at the age of 36...
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Phil Ivey |
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Phil Ivey is one of the greatest poker players in the tournament circuit today. Phil grew up in Atlantic City, New Jersey and developed his incredible powers of concentration as child playing video games. He decided at an early age to become a professional poker player and honed his skills at local card rooms in Atlantic City, playing cards for 12 to 14 hours every day...
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Chris Moneymaker |
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The World Series of
Poker boasts a surprising number of twenty something players who are
playing and winning against the greatest names poker. Among the most
recognized names in this group of young players is Chris Moneymaker,
who, while in his mid twenties, won the 2003 World Series of Poker
No Limit Hold’em Championship...
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Daniel Negreanu |
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Daniel Negreanu is one
of the best cash game and tournament players in the world today,
with three World Series of Poker bracelets and tournament winnings,
as of August 2006, that exceed $8,400,000. This is particularly
remarkable because Negreanu only arrived in Las Vegas in 1995, at
the age of 21...
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