Poker Interviews
After graduating from Yale University with a degree in Economics and Mathematics in 2004, Alex Jacob went on to devote much of his time to tournament poker. He spends most of his days on the road traveling to the next event. His commitment to the game has shown results in the form of over two million dollars in worldwide cashes.Alex had one of his biggest years early into his career in 2006.
Apr 7, 2008
He’s one of the top players in online cash games, he’s won an FTOPS Main Event, and he just turned 21 a couple weeks ago. Alec ‘traheho’ Torelli isn’t just a poker player, he’s a businessman too. He recently launched a poker website created to aid players in transferring money between different poker sites called chipwalkers.com.
Apr 2, 2008
He’s just barely legal to play in a US casino and he’s already cashed for well over $300,000 in live tournaments. Online life’s been even sweeter. He’s cashed for several hundred thousand dollars and has won numerous events including the PokerStars $1000 WCOOP event. He’s got the attention and respect of his peers and now he just needs that bracelet.
Mar 23, 2008
If you follow the rankings of online players then you must know Russell Carson. Known online as rdcrsn and heyfreddy on Full Tilt Poker, this 25 year-old Canadian is dominating online tournament poker. He is currently ranked 4th on pocketfives.com and he has cashed in tournaments for over $1,903,402 and $400,000 of that in 2008 alone. Today he is sitting at The Round Table.
Mar 20, 2008
One of the advantages of having been here from the beginning of the World Poker Open is that I have been able to watch the preliminary events and some of the excellent players (and not so excellent) that have taken part in the events. I remembered watching Event #2 and thinking to myself that its winner, Matt “Cub” Culberson, was an impressive player.
Jan 24, 2008
Known primarily as the lead guitarist for the heavy metal band Anthrax, Scott Ian is ready to be known for something else as well. After winning a celebrity poker tournament last year held by VH1, Ian has been on the fast track to learning poker and loving the game.KL: How did you get started playing poker?Scott: We played on and off on the tour bus over the years.
Dec 13, 2007
Name: Jeff Madsen Nickname: The KidDate of birth: 06/07/1985Place of birth: Santa Monica, CA Currently residing: Las Vegas and Los AngelesFavorite song to listen to before a tournament that gets you pumped up: Any Eminem song.Craziest prop bet: I prop bet with Gavin Smith at the World Series for a lot of money.
Dec 3, 2007
Jonathan Little was one of the top ranked sit-n-go players when Party Poker was around, and now he is one of the top ranked live tournament circuit players. He has been playing live for about two years and has already cashed for over 2.5 million dollars. There is definitely nothing ‘little’ about this guy.KL: What do you think is your greatest online poker accomplishment?
Nov 25, 2007
He's cashed for over 1.6 million dollars, and just took down the Swedish Poker Championship 10 days ago. Playing poker for 20 years Johan is a 35 year old pro hot on the poker tournament trail and isn't letting up for a second.KL: Catch us up on what you have been doing lately.Johan: I went to the World Series in the US and I only cashed in out of the nine events that I played.
Oct 31, 2007
*An article in a recurring series of profiles of players making the jump to playing for a living.*JT Nguyen's poker experience has run the gamut in the last two years. He went from playing small weekly tournaments at Hawaiian Gardens Casino to winning two seats to the 2005 WSOP, including a Main Event seat.
Jan 31, 2007
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