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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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Dr. Max Stern

Thursday, October 23, 2008

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Poker professional come from all walks of life. Some start out as gamblers, some start off as business, and others start off as professionals. Dr. Max Stern is probably one of the few pros that actually started out as a medical doctor. Stern is a retired pediatrician that first started playing tournaments in the 1980’s. [...]

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“Minneapolis” Jim Meehan

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

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“Minneapolis” Jim Meehan grew up in St. Paul Minnesota and started playing poker for fun while he was still in school. Meehan went to college to study law and then went on to work as a lawyer for 20 years. He went into semi retirement in the 1990’s to start playing poker professionally. He had [...]

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Jennifer Harman

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

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There are very few poker players in the world that can hang out and thrive at the upper limits of poker, and the ones that can are usually all male. There is one exception to that illustrious group, and that is Jennifer Harman. Harman started playing poker when she was a little girl. Her father [...]

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Barry Greenstein

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

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Barry Greenstein started playing poker seriously in college. While studying for his degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he would give “poker lessons” to other students and professors and would also play in many underground games. After receiving his degree in Computer Science, he would move out to California where he would become [...]

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