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Veronika Larsen: The Queen Of Poker

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

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Poker has been around for a long time and back then it was only the man's best game. It is a sport that has been in man dominated world until women conquer the poker world like a lightning. Most of female poker players has a combine their gorgeous looks with their aggressive poker skills and charming bluffing techniques.

Nowadays, men think poker as not only with male poker legends like Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan or Phil Hellmuth but they are lurking for some sexy female poker players that dominates the poker world. One of the best female poker player is Veronika Larsen with a combination of oozing sexiness, attractive and a great poker skills.

The Norway's pride has also added a lot of things to the sports and gaming world as Veronika Larsen is a very skillful poker pro and considered to be one of the best poker players in the poker history. 


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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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The November Nine Chip Leader Poker Profile

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

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Best poker player Jonathan Duhamel has earned a 65 million-chip lead for the 2010 WSOP main event’s final table. This young player chipped up in a big way in the 2010 WSOP and used up his arsenal strategically to play big stacks in poker games, exceeding the expectations of many spectators and poker pros gathered at the prestigious event.

Becoming a poker player was not his plan. He initially enrolled in college, hoping that he would get a finance-related job after he graduated. That obviously wasn't to be. He ended up quitting, becoming a poker player. Jonathan Duhamel is the chip leader by quite a margin sitting on over 60 million chips with the second place player holding around 45 million.

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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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Kirill Gerasimov: Russia's Pride In Poker

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

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At a young age of 35, Kirill Gerasimov has reached a level of popularity that many aspiring poker players have dreamed of. This young poker player was born in Moscow and used to be an insurance salesman. Whether or not that day job had any bearings on his poker skills, it is clear that this top poker player is one of the more well known members of the poker world.

Kirill Gerasimov’s success as a poker player is nothing short of phenomenal. In his own country, poker is not the popular game it is in the US. However, he became interested in poker and is now probably the only “real” professional poker player in all of Russia.

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The 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event Champion

Monday, January 17, 2011

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A San Fransisco student and part-time online poker pro Galen Hall came back from an almost 4:1 chip deficit heads up to win the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event early Sunday morning. Galen Hall has won the 2011 PCA Main Event, after defeating a record field of 1,560 players over six days to lift the trophy, as well as collect the $2.3 million first place prize.

Poker pro Galen Hall is ranked in the top 50 online poker players on Pocket Fives and cashed for over $1 million playing poker last year. The 24-year-old US poker pro is no stranger to online success and has managed to amass $878,897 at PokerStars, Full Tilt and Absolute Poker since May 28th, 2008. However, Galen Hall’s live tournament record has been less than stellar up until now, with only two cashes worth $6,355.


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The Card Throwing Jesus Of Poker

Friday, January 14, 2011

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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.

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Viktor Blom Is The Real Isildur1

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

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A press conference has been announced for 7PM on Saturday evening at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure tournament series taking place in the Bahamas. At the press conference PokerStars will officially reveal the identity of their newest team member, Isildur1.


Although it is all but certainly the young Swedish poker pro Viktor Blom who just happens to be taking part in the $100,000 Super-High-Roller tournament at the PCA today—Isildur1, and Viktor Blom, have done an excellent job of sowing just enough doubt to keep other theories alive. And keeping a secret like that in the poker world for well over a year is a feat in itself!


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The New Young Gun In Poker Scene

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

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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.

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Jungleman12: The 2010 High-Stakes Poker Winner

Monday, January 3, 2011

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High-stakes online poker pro Daniel “jungleman12” Cates took the top spot on the earnings list for online poker pros in 2010. poker player Dan Cates brought in over US$5 million from the virtual tables at Full Tilt Poker. Dan Cates won over $500,000 in one marathon session of $300/$600 half no-limit Texas Hold'em/half pot-limit Omaha cash games.

Early in this session, Daniel Cates lost about US$250,000 to his opponents, including the top poker player in the world Patrik Antonius. Dan Cates quickly rebounded and finished the session with double that amount in profits, closing off a career year for the online poker sensation.

Poker pro Daniel Cates also earned over US$500,000 in the “Durrr Challenge”, a series of heads-up no-limit Texas Hold’em matches with young online poker wizard Tom “durrr” Dwan. Daniel Cates and TomDwan have played just over thirteen thousand hands against each other, with the winner of the matches to be determined after fifty thousand hands.


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