John “JJ” Juanda has earned four World Series of poker bracelets and reached sixteen WSOP final tables, as well as six World Poker Tour (wpt) final tables. He has won many notable tournaments including the 2006 Aussie Millions Speed Poker $1 Million Challenge and the 2008 WSOP European (WSOPE) Main Event. John “JJ” Juanda plays [...]
The $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship went down to eight finalists. The chip leader entering the final table is former WSOP gold bracelet winner, Floridian, Mr. Robert Mizrachi. In 2007 he won the $10,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha Championship. When the players take the ESPN Main Stage much of the focus will be on mega-stacked Mizrachi [...]
Shannon Elizabeth was born September 7, 1973 and is an American actress and fashion model, turned poker player. Her name came to prominence in the 1999 comedy film “American Pie”. Elizabeth, who describes poker as her “second career” has been called “one of the leading celebrity poker players.” She comes to Las Vegas up to [...]
Of all the champions of the World Series of Poker, Jamie Gold may be the one who has taken the most heat in the tournament’s entire history of 38 years. Jamie Gold is a television producer based in Los Angeles who got his start in cards in a competitive household with a poker-playing mother and [...]
Scotty Nguyen’s hometown of Nha Trang sits on a strip of the South China Sea in south-central Vietnam. It is a very beautiful and mystical place, but when Scotty was born in 1962, Nha Trang, like the rest of Vietnam, was a different place. Though the United States had not yet officially entered the war, [...]
Born in Riverside, California in 1976 but transplanted to Roselle, New Jersey shortly thereafter, Phil Ivey was introduced to poker at a young age. In 2000, at the age of 24, he took the leap to the big boy circuit. In a $2,000 No-Limit Texas Hold’em, he finished fifth. In a $2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha, he [...]
David Williams gained international fame with his runner-up finish in the 2004 World Series of poker main event. Well, he took down the second-largest score of his career this weekend with his $1,530,537 win in the Bellagio’s World Poker Tour Championship. Williams emerged victorious from a star-studded final table. He said: “The lineup of name [...]
After graduating from MIT in the early 1990s with two electrical engineering degrees, Andy Bloch started Playing Poker. His poker career has been quite impressively successful, especially after he became a full time professional in the mid 1990s. When not dominating the No Limit table, Andy is also an extremely skilled blackjack card counter, though [...]
To further strengthen its surprisingly resolute support for French poker, and in anticipation of the opening of that very market, Everest Poker has signed renowned French poker authority, Fabrice Soulier as its latest ambassador. Soulier joins another French player and third-place WSOP 2009 finalist Antoine Saout to help support and sponsor Everest’s French player community. [...]
Mario Salvatore still finds fun, friends, and catharsis playing seven-card stud. But much like Salvatore himself, the game is suffering the passage of time. The 85-year-old, a South Philadelphia native who now lives a spitting distance from the Atlantic City Boardwalk, is one of a fiercely loyal but shrinking group of stud poker players, mostly [...]
Stu Ungar might be the greatest No Limit Hold’em if not general greatest poker player of all time. He is a three-time World Champion (with five WSOP bracelets). In addition, he won ten major No Limit Hold’em championship events (in which the buy-ins were $5,000 or higher). The runner-ups for this prestige record are, T.J. [...]
One of the great things about poker is that the table is open to both men and women and both have a fair shot at winning the pot. Likewise there are both men and women poker players who go down in the book of poker legends. One such character is the great Annie Duke. Duke [...]
Thomas Austin Preston, Jr. was born on December 31, 1928 in Johnson, Arkansas. He started his career with Doyle Brunson and Sailor Roberts as a rounder, traveling the country and looking for some good gambling action. In 1972, he won the World Series of poker $10,000 No Limit Hold’em World Championship, to earn a bracelet [...]
Congratulations to Mike Kosowski. He is officially the winner in the PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge. The former New York City Detective Sergeant’s experience on 9/11 left him injured and stricken with severe asthma. As a result he was forced to retire, and with the spare-time on his hands, he started Playing Poker. Kosowski and his [...]