People in Poker
Kathy Liebert, along with Annie Duke and Jennifer Harman, is considered to be one of the best female poker players in the world. Being a great tournament player, Kathy is known for her cool, incisive play and her professional demeanor. She is a huge contender in a game that has been always dominated by men.
Jul 25, 2005
Annie Duke is a strong competitor and the leading money winner among women in World Series of Poker history. She regularly proves that women can hold their own in a game that is supposedly "male-oriented". Phil Hellmuth once stated that Annie is the best all-around woman poker player in the world today and many would agree with such statement.Annie was born in Concord, New Hampshire.
Jul 25, 2005
T.J Cloutier is considered to be one of the finest tournament players in history, having won more than fifty major poker events, including multiple top-five places and six wins of WSOP in different categories, which gave him the lead in overall winnings compared to other top poker players. T.J Cloutier was born 1939 in Albany, California.
Jul 25, 2005
Howard Lederer is mostly known as a professor of poker and a winner of two WSOP Bracelets. Growing up in New Hampshire, he spent much of his childhood on the family room floor focused on card games. His family played all sorts of card games together, and one of them was poker. Howard left college to become a chess player, but ended up finding his way to the poker tables.
Jul 25, 2005
Chris "Jesus" Ferguson is the best recognized face in poker. Being a top professional poker player, mathematician and computer scientist with a photographic memory. He has an extraordinary and unique look with his long hair, beard, sunglasses and hat – his special signature that brings to poker an atmosphere of both excitement and sanctity.
Jul 25, 2005
Meet Gus Hansen, a.k.a. the Great Dane, one of the most aggressive and successful professional players in poker. It is obvious (even Gus approved it) that his aggression comes from times when Gustav played backgammon professionally, as backgammon is a game of aggression as well as of strategy.
Jul 25, 2005
Paul Phillips is widely recognized for his stunning World Poker Tour appearances. Being an impressively talented, very intelligent and sometimes controversial poker player, Paul is known for having very strong opinions. Paul has two strong World Poker Tour finishes in the second season. But I am sure that's not the last we hear of him.
Jul 25, 2005
Daniel Negreanu is known as the best ever born poker player from Canada. Born in 1974 in Toronto, he spent his youth playing pool. Later on Dan tried gambling and grew fond of poker. Probably it was the main reason why he dropped out of a high school and started chasing every poker game he could enter. At the age of 21 he left to Las Vegas – poker players dreamed land.
Jun 30, 2005
Man With a Mission The founder of Beal Bank is seriously rich and seriously smart. Now he’s serious about shooting for the stars. By Melinda Rice So, just who does this Andy Beal fellow think he is anyway? Let’s review. He thinks he’s a banker. Check.
Jun 21, 2005
This information is taken from http://www.casinogaming.com BUT...the word in the poker community, in Vegas, is that Archie won over $30,000,000 during this run and the only thing he bought out of that money was a car. He lost it all in poker games and the pit.
Jun 21, 2005