Tag Archive | "World Series of Poker"

Howard “Tahoe” Andrew

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

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Howard “Tahoe” Andrew has had a poker career that has spanned over four decades. While most players are in their retirements looking back on the accomplishments of their life, Andrew is out winning poker tournaments. Tahoe first broke onto the poker scene at the 1976 World Series of Poker. He entered a tournament that used [...]

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Jeffrey Lisandro

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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Jeffrey Lisandro made his fortune in real estate investing before becoming a professional poker player. He was born in Perth, Austrailia but now lives in Salerno, Italy. Lisandro started his career off as primarily a high stakes cash game player. It is said that he would play the highest stakes in the world and would [...]

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Perry Friedman

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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Perry Friedman considers himself a semi-professional poker player. For those that don’t know the difference, a professional poker player is one that makes their money solely from poker. This is not the case with Friedman. Upon Graduating from Stanford University, he went to work with companies such as IBM, Oracle, and Digital Envoy. He then [...]

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Perry Green – Alaska’s Poker Guru

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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Perry Green started his working life as a fur trader in Alaska. While he was at various polar outposts, he would play poker with Eskimos and work on honing his poker skills. He eventually took those skills to work at the poker tables in Las Vegas. Green had his first big success at the 1976 [...]

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Cyndi Violette

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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When you think of a champion female poker player, you typically think of a grizzled, rough looking woman that takes no flack from anyone. You don’t think of a bubbly, cute blonde, but that is what you will get when you play Cyndi Violette. Violette started her poker career as a dealer. She would deal [...]

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Dewey Tomko

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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Dewey Tomko started out playing poker like many other old school professionals, which was inside of a pool hall. By the time Tomko was in college, he was earning enough from playing poker to fund his college education. He attended Salem College and graduated with a degree in education. After college he started to teach [...]

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Layne “Back to Back” Flack

Monday, October 27, 2008

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Layne Flack started his poker playing career like many players, by working as a dealer in a casino. He used to play in his off hours from the casino and after a while he decided to take up playing full time. However, things in his life changed after the birth of his daughter Haley, and [...]

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Allen Cunningham

Sunday, October 26, 2008

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Allen Cunningham started playing poker in Indian Casino’s when he was 18 years old. In the beginning, the game was just a profitable hobby to him but as he started to win consistently, he decided that he would try his hand at higher limit games. When those started to prove success, Cunningham decided to drop [...]

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Mike “The Mouth” Matusow

Saturday, October 25, 2008

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Mike “The Mouth” Matusow has had a life and a poker career that has been as turbulent as any in the history of poker. Mike started out as a dealer and a professional video poker player in his younger life but was introduced to Texas Holdem in 1989 by Steve Samaroff. Matusow experienced a lot [...]

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Robert “Chip Burner” Turner

Friday, October 24, 2008

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If you are a poker player in the Los Angeles area, then you know the name Robert “Chip Burner” Turner. For many years, Robert has been a poker executive of one type or another at various casinos in the area. Turner started off his poker career running poker games out of his home in Huntsville, [...]

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