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The Professor In Online Poker Industry

Thursday, March 3, 2011

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Did you know that Howard Lederer has placed poker up to 70 hours a week for 2 years and now he is considered ar kone of the best poker players like Jay Heimowitz as well as Dan Harrington. These are just a few of the big, huge names that Howard Lederer has been playing with for years.

Howard Lederer is on of the top poker players in the world as he is one out of 4 poker players with WSOP bracelets and multiple WPT victories such as Daniel Negreanu, Carlos Mortensen and Barry Greenstein are the others. Apart from poker, he is a world-class chess champion and member of the legendary Mayfair Club, he is credited by his sister, Annie Duke for teaching her how to play poker and he’s developed a four-staged evolutionary chart for the course of a poker master.


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Sexy Celebrity Poker Player Profile

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

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When it comes to celebrities that play poker, the undisputed Queen of the tables is Jennifer Tilly. She came out of nowhere last year, winning the Ladies WSOP bracelet and a Ladies WPT championship. Over the last year her impact has been as important to the growth of the game as any other player's. The sexy poker player is already 39th on the WSOP all-time women's money list, and she's improving every day.

Her career has spanned over three decades and includes over 80 acting credits. She was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a struggling actress named Olive Neal in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway in 1994. She's appeared on many No. 1 T.V. shows over the years including "Cheers", "Hill Street Blues", and "Frazier". Jennifer Tilly was also busy appearing in bit parts, in films such as Moving Violations, Inside Out, Remote Control, He's My Girl, and Rented Lips, one year after the other.

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Joe “Hash” Hachem Poker Player Information

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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One of the best poker players in the history, an Australian poker player which originally from Lebanon, Joe Hachem became an instant poker celebrity when he claimed the $7 million main prize at the 2005 World Series of Poker.


It was with the movie Rounders when poker pro Joe Hachem started playing the Manila version of poker for fun during his teenage years and decided to try his luck playing live at the Crown Casino in Melbourne. He studied medicine, eventually qualifying as a chiropractor. However, in 2002, at the age of 36, Joe Hachem was forced to give up his career as a chiropractor due to the diagnosis of a rare blood disease.


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The Best Female Poker Player In History

Friday, February 18, 2011

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One of the most hottest female poker player that hits the poker industry is none other than Jennifer Harman, as she is considered to be one of the most fierce competitors found at a poker table. Knowing poker as a sport, Jennifer Harman proves that even a girl can dominate in the gamer of poker. As she was in the Fulltilt Poker Team and keeps on winning.

Her successful relationship with the game of poker began when she was just an 8 year old little girl who is observing her father's game. In the many times that her father would lose two to three hundred, she was put in the game in the attempt to get even with his friends who were his playmates. And her father made no mistake of putting her in as she won most of the time.


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Lacey Jones: The Sexy Poker Barbie

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

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Aside from being a celebrity, a sexy model and a poker hostess, Lacey Jones is also one of the best female poker player in history. By the time Lacey Jones was all of 16 years old, she was offered an attractive modeling job and had to fly to Hong Kong and Japan; however her father dissuaded her from taking it up as he wanted her to pursue her education.

At the age of 22, Lacey Jones completed her BA in Political Science and French at the University of Arizona. With hot and scorching body and a barbie-like face Lacey Jones became a familiar face in the world of modeling, and she began working with the big names in the industry- Daimler Chrysler, Panasonic, Sony, Nike Golf, Playboy Leather Collection, Mac and Co, St. John, Carolina Herrera, and others.

The hot and sexy Lacey Jones set foot on the acting field and bagged herself some quality roles for The O.C. and Entourage shows. A successful model as well as a successful actress, Lacey Jones' career graph was at an all time high.

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The Rock In Poker World

Friday, February 4, 2011

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One of the best poker player regardless of no World Series of Poker or World Poker Tour victory who has amassed over $4,000,000 in live tournament earnings. Although Andy Bloch extremely blackjack card counter, but he pursue poker as his profession. As a member of MIT Blackjack team Andy Bloch was banned from over 360 casinos worldwide for counting cards in blackjack.

As a poker player with 2 degrees from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School, it comes as no surprise that Andy's approach to poker is mathematical and analytical. Although he successfully passed the bar exam, Bloch found himself more drawn to playing poker professionally than practicing law. “I haven’t found a law-related job that would keep my interest,” he says, “although I tell my parents I’m still looking.” Andy Bloch said.

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Sexy Female Poker Playmate Profile

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

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Name it, she have it! From a successful poker player, a sexy model of PlayBoy magazine, a hacker and the master in an online game of World Of Warcraft and a businesswoman who owns a clothing line. And on top of all of her career, poker pro Jennifer Leigh is one of the top female poker players in the poker history.

Jennifer Leigh is a self-proclaimed nerd with knowledge of the Linux operating system and the C Sharp programming language. She started gaming with her father at a very young age, and was very active on IRC from a very young age – this is where she chose her nickname of “Jennicide.”

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Sam “Tricky” Trickett Poker Profile

Monday, January 24, 2011

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Making a history in his authority on live poker tournaments around the world, is British poker player, Sam “Tricky” Trickett. His break-out year includes six in-the-money finishes at the 2010 WSOP, awarding him almost $700,000, a prize total that would make any player happy.

The poker pro from Nottingham has accumulated $1,071,356 in winnings over the past year, including an award for “Best Newcomer” by the British Poker Awards ceremony at London’s Kensington Close Hotel on September 13.

Sam Trickett’s dominance of the European poker circuit has become very apparent with his recent first place finish at PartyPoker’s World Open and a fourth place finish at the EPT Vilamoura in Portugal.

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The Iron Maiden Of Poker

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

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Liv Boeree is one of the most top poker players in the business. She is not only a successful professional poker player but a TV presenter, journalist, model, and skilled guitarist. 
 
Originally from Kent in England, Liv Boeree is one of the most successful female poker players of all time, with close to $2,000,000 in live tournament earnings. She previously studied at the University of Manchester, achieving a first-class degree in Astrophysics, before going on to find fame as a model and TV presenter on a range of different shows.


She was first introduced to poker when she was selected as one of five contestants for the reality show, "Ultimatepoker.com Showdown" in 2005. During the show, she was coached by some of the top poker pros in the industry including Phil Hellmuth, Annie Duke and Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott. It was during that time she fell in love with the game and began studying it intensely.

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The Duchess Of Poker: Annie Duke

Thursday, December 23, 2010

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When it comes to women making money in the game of poker, Annie Duke is one of the best in the business. Having grown up in a card-playing household in New Hampshire, Duke learned to play poker with her family and followed her brother Howard Lederer into a pro poker career after giving up her doctorate research at the University of Pennsylvania to get married and move to Montana.

Pretty, smart and popular, Annie Duke completed a major in English and Psychology at Columbia University intending to follow in the footsteps of her parents and becoming a teacher. Instead, she enrolled as a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania for Cognitive Psychology.


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Poker Hall Of Fame: Tom “Durrrr” Dwan

Monday, December 6, 2010

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Tom Dwan, online poker name “durrrr”, is deemed one of the best poker players. A college dropout originally from New Jersey who has become one of the biggest cash game players in a very short amount of time. 

He has said to have made over $2,000,000 playing high stakes poker online. He makes a session out of sitting down with the top poker pros such as Phil Ivey, Patrick Antonius, John Juanda and others at limits as high as $300/$600 NLH.

Tom Dwan got his start in online poker back when he was 17 years old, his first deposit was $50 and according to him he hasn't had to invest any additional money to poker after that initial first deposit. At first Durrrr was playing $5 Sit N Go tournaments, but soon he realized that he could make even more money from cash games poker

According to him he slowly grinded up from the small limits without getting much attention from the online poker community until he reached $10/$20 no limit games.


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