The Professor In Online Poker Industry

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.

Joe “Hash” Hachem Poker Player Information

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.

Sam “Tricky” Trickett Poker Profile

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.

The Card Throwing Jesus Of Poker

With a hat and sunglasses- he's known for came about in the early days as a way to disguise the fact that he was a college student when he was playing in card rooms and casinos. And though he's never been known to walk on water, poker player Chris Ferguson has been known to perform miracles sitting at a poker table.

With a background in game theory and a Ph.D. in computer science, Chris Ferguson made the decision to really apply himself and concentrate only on tournament play. He started off playing in the small tournaments in and around Los Angeles. In 1996 he won a satellite World Series of Poker (WSOP) tournament, placing him in the main event.

The New Young Gun In Poker Scene

Jason Mercier is one of the premier top poker players currently. He has had several big wins and strong cash finishes in live and online poker tournaments alike. But aside from that, he is also a very good cash game player. Jason Mercier undoubtedly is emerging as one of the hottest young stars in recent times.

Originally from Fort Lauderdale in Florida, Jason Mercier, like so many of his peers, was first turned on to poker by Chris Moneymaker and his big score at the 2003 World Series. Jason Mercier originally wanted to be a Math teacher, but thanks to Moneymaker and the opportunity to rack up the hours online at college, he decided to make a living through poker.

The Iron Maiden Of Poker

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.

The Duchess Of Poker: Annie Duke

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.

WPT Title Grabs By The Magician

One of poker's most interesting top poker players, Antonio Esfandiari, formerly a profession magician, is a bona fide superstar in the card-playing community. Poker pro Antonio “The Magician” Esfandiari was able to comeback from a short-stack to beat out a tough field of poker pros at the final table and win the coveted title – his second WPT win.

The Magician entered the final day in fifth out of 6^th place with nearly a third of the chips possessed by chip-leader Vanessa Rousso. However, Esfandiari was able to regain the form that had him near the top of the leader-board since Day 1 of the tournament, before nearly being eliminated with about 10 players remaining.

The final table for the WPT Five Diamonds will likely go down as one of the strongest in poker history featuring six talented professional players. In the end it was Esfandiari who would hold his hands up in victory, and pocket the $870,000 that was awarded to the winner of the tournament.

The Notorious Poker Brat: Phil Hellmuth Jr.

Phil Hellmuth joined Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson in 2006 as one of only three best poker players in history with 10 WSOP bracelets to their names. But what separates Phil Hellmuth from even this legendary pack is that all of his WSOP wins have come in Texas Hold'em events - that and a record 11^th bracelet in No-Limit Hold'em won by the poker brat himself at the 2007 WSOP.

Phil Hellmuth also holds the distinction of being the youngest poker player to win the WSOP Main Event after beating two-time defending champion Johnny Chan in 1989 at just 24 years old. He learned the game of poker while he was a student at the University of Wisconsin, moving up from cash games at the student union to higher stakes poker with the professors and eventually dropping out of school to play professionally, much to the chagrin of his academic father.

After the win at the 1989 WSOP, poker pro Phil Hellmuth spent the next decade and a half accumulating more tournament victories than any other professional poker player before him. In addition to the 10 WSOP bracelets, he has more than 50 poker tournament titles, 5 World Poker Tour top 10 finishes and has amassed tournament winnings over a whopping $8.8 million.

Patrik Antonius: Coach,Model And Poker Pro

Recognized as one of the top poker pros on the poker circuit - and not just for his poker skills - Patrik Antonius sets tongues wagging wherever he goes. His undeniable talent at the green felt combined with an enormous bankroll and millions in poker winnings would be enough to make any grown man weep. Combine this with a strong resemblance to Brad Pitt, a gorgeous Israeli fiancée, and a beautiful baby girl, and you've got trouble.

Patrik Antonius was born to a working-class family in the suburbs of Helsinki, Finland, on December 13, 1980. His father worked as a bread delivery man and his mother found work at a day-care center to help make ends meet. A rambunctious and competitive youth, Patrik Antonius played soccer, tennis and hockey, and worked hard to keep himself out of detention.

He was particularly gifted at tennis, and by the age of 13 had been singled out by his coaches as a child with Wimbledon potential. He dropped the other sports and began a tennis training regime, but suffered a serious setback a couple of years later when a bulging disc in his back forced him to stop training for a year and a half.