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Poker Stories: Alex Fitzgerald
Poker Stories - March 15, 2024 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsAlex Fitzgerald has been a poker professional for half of his life, turning to the game when he was just 18 years old. In the nearly two decades since, Fitzgearld has racked up millions in online winnings with final tables on the World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour. But unlike many other...
Poker Stories: David Sklansky
Poker Stories - January 16, 2024 01:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsDavid Sklansky is perhaps the most prolific poker writer ever, and an all-around authority on all things gambling. The author of titles such as The Theory of Poker, Small Stakes Hold'em, DUCY?, Geeking, Grifting, And Gambling, and the latest, Small Stakes No-Limit Hold'em: Help Them Give You The...
Poker Stories: Wolfgang
Poker Stories - December 02, 2023 00:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsWolfgang is a relative newcomer to the poker world, but that hasn't stopped him from finding a huge audience with his short-form vlogs. The Chicago native and Texas resident has a background in video production and editing which he has used leapfrog other top content creators to become one of th...
Poker Stories: Jeff Boski
Poker Stories - November 08, 2023 03:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsJeff Sluzinski, a content creator and pro better known to his viewers as Jeff Boski, was one of the pioneer poker vloggers on YouTube. In the last six years, the ACR Poker ambassador has built a sizable audience, posting more than 600 videos and racking up millions of views. Originally from Mic...
Poker Stories: Jesse Lonis
Poker Stories - October 11, 2023 02:40 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsIt took less than four years for Jesse Lonis to climb from $200 tournaments to competing in high rollers with the best players in the world. The New York native kickstarted his career with a World Poker Tour final table in 2021 at the Lucky Hearts Poker Open and then followed it up with a deep r...
Poker Stories: Daniel Weinman
Poker Stories - September 28, 2023 03:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsDaniel Weinman topped the biggest World Series of Poker main event field in history, outlasting more than 10,000 entrants. Incredibly, he almost didn't play in the event and had to be convinced by friends, including six-time bracelet winner Shaun Deeb, to fly back from his native Atlanta, Georgi...
Poker Stories: Shaun Deeb
Poker Stories - September 01, 2023 01:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsShaun Deeb was just 16 when he fell in love with poker, hosting tournaments at his home in New York. It wasn't long before he was focusing more on cards than school, and Deeb found himself quickly rising the ranks among the best online players in the world, reaching no. 1 in 2009. In the live a...
Poker Stories: Mike Gorodinsky
Poker Stories - August 11, 2023 03:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsMike Gorodinsky is a three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, who is coming off a summer where he took down the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. championship for $422,747. The Russian-born pro, who was raised in St. Louis, Missouri, won his first bracelet back in 2013, taking down the $2,500 Omaha an...
Poker Stories: Nacho Barbero
Poker Stories - March 24, 2023 17:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsJose Ignacio "Nacho" Barbero was a top-ranked, world-traveling card player long before he ever found poker. The Argentinian discovered the game Magic: The Gathering as a teen, and he was soon leading the national team in global competitions. After six years as a Magic pro, Barbero made the sw...
Poker Stories: Stephen Song
Poker Stories - March 01, 2023 01:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsStephen Song has been tearing up the tournament circuit for the last few years. The New York-born, Connecticut-raised Song was a childhood chess prodigy who found poker while in college, ultimately making a deal with his parents to turn pro. After winning a tournament for nearly $33,000, he was ...
Poker Stories: Lara Eisenberg
Poker Stories - February 13, 2023 02:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsDr. Lara Eisenberg is not a professional poker player, but you wouldn't know it by looking at her results. She has already scored a WSOP Circuit ring, and a World Series of Poker bracelet, taking down the Ladies Championship in 2021. Then in December, she pocketed a career-high $481,500 for fini...
Poker Stories: Mike Holtz
Poker Stories - January 27, 2023 21:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsMike Holtz spent his teen years as one of the best gamers around. In fact, at one point he was considered the top-ranked World of Warcraft player and was recruited to join a traveling league called the World Series of Video Gaming. Unfortunately for the Maryland native, the league went bust and ...
Poker Stories: Adam Pliska
Poker Stories - December 22, 2022 01:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsAdam Pliska has been with the World Poker Tour since the start, and along with the company recently celebrated 20 years in the game. The WPT President and CEO acted as the tour's general counsel for several years before making the switch to the executive side. Under his leadership, the WPT has s...
Poker Stories: Miikka Anttonen
Poker Stories - October 18, 2022 05:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsMiikka Anttonen has been gambling since he was just 10 years old. He was originally drawn to sports betting and slot machines, but after moving from his native Finland to Australia, Anttonen discovered poker. Despite a few false starts, he stuck with the game, and eventually built a bankroll and...
Poker Stories: Jeff Platt
Poker Stories - October 06, 2022 03:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsJeff Platt found poker during the Moneymaker boom, but it was more than a decade before he could work it into his career. The Dallas, Texas native graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in broadcast journalism, and scored his first gig working the sports desk at a Jac...
Poker Stories: Brad Ruben
Poker Stories - September 15, 2022 23:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsBrad Ruben is a rising star in the poker world who has exploded for four World Series of Poker bracelets in the last few years. As a result, the 36-year-old Florida native 'leads the decade' with the most bracelets won so far since 2020. The mixed-games specialist got his first title in August ...
Poker Stories: TDA Rule Changes With Matt Savage
Poker Stories - August 26, 2022 02:05 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsThe Tournament Director's Association (TDA) was formed in 2001 by Matt Savage, Linda Johnson, Jan Fisher, and Dave Lamb with the goal of standardizing poker tournament rules. Before the TDA, each venue would have their own 'house rules,' creating problems and confusion for new or traveling playe...
Poker Stories: Dan Zack
Poker Stories - August 12, 2022 19:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsDan Zack was perhaps the youngest player to get bit by the poker bug when Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 World Series of Poker main event. The Princeton, New Jersey native was just 10 years old at the time, but he was hooked, even going on to read the Harrington on Hold'em strategy series by age ...
Poker Stories: Eugene Katchalov
Poker Stories - August 01, 2022 18:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsEugene Katchalov is a World Series of Poker winner and World Poker Tour champion with more than $9.2 million in career live tournament earnings. The Ukrainian-born and New York-raised pro won the 2007 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic for a massive $2.5 million and also the 2011 $1,...
Poker Stories: Jennifer Shahade
Poker Stories - July 15, 2022 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsJennifer Shahade grew up in Philadelphia. Her father Mike was a master chess player and her mother Sally a professor at Drexel University, but at night the two would count cards at the blackjack tables in Atlantic City. Jennifer and her older brother Greg each took up chess as well, and both exc...
Poker Stories: Benjamin 'Bencb' Rolle
Poker Stories - July 04, 2022 23:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsBen Rolle, known to most of the poker world as Bencb, is one of the greatest online tournament players in the game today. The 33-year-old German was a standout junior soccer player, but turned to online poker after college and grinded his way to the highest stakes available. He has won many mill...
Poker Stories: Brek Schutten
Poker Stories - June 23, 2022 23:25 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsBrek Schutten is a family man with five children that spends his days working as a nurse in the intensive care unit. But that hasn't stopped the Michigan native from dominating the live tournament circuit for more than a year now. The 34-year-old topped a record-field of 2,482 entries in the ...
Poker Stories: Brad Owen
Poker Stories - May 10, 2022 17:25 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsBrad Owen discovered poker while in high school, learning the game by studying poker software his dad brought home from work. He continued to play throughout college and even as he earned his masters degree in accounting, but a nine-to-five job was never in the cards for the Santa Rosa, Californ...
Poker Stories: Kane Kalas
Poker Stories - April 20, 2022 01:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsKane Kalas grew up near Philadelphia where his father and baseball hall of famer Harry Kalas worked as the play by play commentator for the Phillies for nearly 40 years. He could have joined the family business like his brother Todd, who broadcasts for the Houston Astros, but while he was in col...
Poker Stories: Phil Galfond
Poker Stories - April 06, 2022 02:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsPhil Galfond has made his mark on pretty much every part of the poker world. Not only is the Maryland native considered one of the best to ever play the game, but he's also been recognized as a prolific poker coach, and even operated his own online poker site, Run It Once. The 37-year-old recen...
Poker Stories: 'Miami' John Cernuto
Poker Stories - March 10, 2022 03:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratings"Miami" John Cernuto is a true ironman of the live poker tournament circuit. The longtime grinder holds the record and a sizable lead for the most cashes ever with 540 and counting. To put that into perspective, 16-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth has just shy of 350. Cernuto, who has three...
Poker Stories: Scotty Nguyen
Poker Stories - February 24, 2022 23:30 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsScotty Nguyen has the ultimate poker success story. After escaping almost certain death in the Vietnam War and surviving almost a month stranded at sea, the teenager eventually found himself in the United States looking for a piece of the American dream. Always a hustler, it wasn't long before N...
Poker Stories: Chris Brewer
Poker Stories - February 01, 2022 23:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsChris Brewer discovered poker while competing at the 2012 Olympic Trials, getting hooked after playing in a $5 home game. The San Diego native's first love was running, which led him to the 32-time national champion University of Oregon Ducks track and field team. He built his bankroll while in ...
Poker Stories: Dan 'Jungleman' Cates
Poker Stories - January 25, 2022 02:50 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsDan Cates discovered poker in high school, and wasted no time immersing himself in the game online. By the time he dropped out of college, the man known as 'jungleman12' had already risen to the highest stakes and won millions against some of the top players in the world. According to HighStakes...
Poker Stories: Dan Cates
Poker Stories - January 25, 2022 02:50 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 179 ratingsDan Cates discovered poker in high school, and wasted no time immersing himself in the game online. By the time he dropped out of college, the man known as 'jungleman12' had already risen to the highest stakes and won millions against some of the top players in the world. According to HighStakes...
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