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Rob Akery is a professional poker player from Bristol, UK.

André Akkari is a Brazilian professional poker player. He is a member of Team PokerStars Pro Brazil and is the winner of the 2011 World Series of Poker $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event.

Billy Argyros, commonly referred to as Billy the Croc or The Croc, is a Greek Australian Gambler & Australian Poker Hall of Fame Member.

Eric Baldwin is a professional poker player from Henderson, Nevada who won the 2009 World Series of Poker $1,500 No Limit Hold'em event earning $521,991 and was the runner-up in the World Poker Tour $25,000 No Limit Hold'em WPT Championship Event, earning $1,034,715 and is the 2009 Winner of the CardPlayer Player of the Year Award.

Michael Banducci is an American professional poker player who won a 2008 World Series of Poker bracelet event.

Big Deal: A Year as a Professional Poker Player is a book by Anthony Holden. The book details a year Holden spent playing poker around the world, attempting to make a living, or at least a profit, from the endeavor.

Bigger Deal: A Year Inside the Poker Boom is Anthony Holden's follow-up to his 1990 book Big Deal: A Year as a Professional Poker Player. The book follows Holden's return to professional poker fifteen years after his last adventure ended. The book begins with the WSOP 2005, following him around the world to eventually return to Las Vegas for the WSOP 2006.

The Biggest Bluff is a book written by Maria Konnikova published by Penguin Press in 2020. Maria is a psychologist, television producer and a Russian-American writer. In this book she explained about her poker journey of being a complete novice to poker champ after hiring few world best poker trainer. She explained that poker helps to improve psychology.

In 1983, Al Alvarez published, The Biggest Game in Town, a book detailing the 1981 World Series of Poker event. The first book of its kind, it described the world of professional poker players and the World Series of Poker. It is credited with beginning the genre of poker literature and with bringing Texas Hold'em, for the first time, to a wider audience.

Robert Cheung is a 46-year-old businessman, originally from Hong Kong, China who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in the $1,500 No Limit Hold'em event at the 2007 World Series of Poker for over $675k. He tied the record for shortest heads-up match by defeating his opponent Richard Murnick in one hand. In fact he owns the record of beating the final three opponents in three consecutive hands. A full report of the final table can be found at www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2007-wsop/event-38-no-limit-holdem/.

Michael DeMichele is a professional poker player from East Haven, Connecticut. DeMichele's first major success in poker came in the 2006 United States Poker Championship Main Event, where he finished in 3rd place winning $215,194. Since then, DeMichele has cashed in some World Series of Poker events and has had success at the events he has cashed in. His biggest finish at the WSOP was in 2008, where he finished runner-up to Scotty Nguyen at the 2008 World Series of Poker $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship, earning $1,243,200, earlier that same year in the $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event, DeMichele finished 4th and earned $139,872.

Ivan Demidov is a professional poker player from Moscow, Russia.

James Dempsey, known online as Flushy, is an English professional poker player from Brighton, England, who won a World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2010 World Series of Poker in the $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em event and a World Poker Tour title at the 2011 Doyle Brunson World Poker Classic.

Jimmy Fricke is a professional poker player from Mahomet, Illinois.

Perry Friedman is an American professional poker player who won the 2002 World Series of Poker $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better event and is a founding member of the Tiltboys.

Matthew "Matt" Glantz is a professional poker player from Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania.

Alexandre Gomes is a Brazilian professional poker player. He is a World Series of Poker bracelet winner, a World Poker Tour champion and a former Team PokerStars Pro.

Matthew Graham is an American professional poker player from Houston, Texas, who is a two time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, He won his first bracelet at the 2008 World Series of Poker in the $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout event. During the next year at the 2009 World Series of Poker, he won his second bracelet in the $10,000 World Championship Pot Limit Omaha event.

Michael Graves is an American poker player and a medical student at the University of Texas-Southwestern. In 2007, he won a World Series of Poker bracelet in the $1,000 no limit Texas hold'em with rebuys. His victory created a buzz during the 2007 WSOP as this was the first time he cashed at the WSOP.

Eleanor Gudger is a professional poker player from Yarm, England.

John Guth is a professional poker player from Vancouver, Washington who won a bracelet at the World Championship Limit Omaha-8 event at the 2007 World Series of Poker.

Melissa Hayden is a professional poker player.

Blair Hinkle is an American poker player who won the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em event. He earned $507,613 at the event. Less than two weeks earlier his brother, Grant Hinkle, also won a WSOP bracelet in the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event making them the first brothers to each win a bracelet in the same year.

Grant Hinkle is an American poker player who won the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event. He earned $831,462 at the event, bringing his total live tournament winnings to $1,640,843.

Michael Keiner is a German poker player best known for winning a Seven-card stud WSOP bracelet in 2007.

John-Paul Kelly, known as J.P. Kelly, is a professional poker player from Aylesbury, England. Kelly is a two time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, having won the 2009 World Series of Poker $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em event in Las Vegas and then later that same year won another bracelet at the 2009 World Series of Poker Europe in the £1,000 No Limit Hold'em event in London. He was a member of team PokerStars Pro, playing under the screen name "jp Kelly" However, his association with PokerStars has since ended.

Kelly Kim is a poker player from Whittier, California, primarily known for his 8th-place finish at the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, earning $1,288,217.

Tuan Lam is a Vietnamese-Canadian professional poker player from Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Lam left Vietnam at age 17, ending up in an Indonesian refugee camp for two years where he learned English before making his way to Canada. Prior to turning professional, Lam worked as a general laborer for a metal company. He is married with two children.

Nam Thien Le is an American professional poker player from Huntington Beach, California.

Jason Lester is a professional poker player who has also lived in New York City and Los Angeles. He currently resides in Miami, FL. He is also an exceptional backgammon player and has won many tournaments in the past, but now he focuses on poker. He finished in 4th place at the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP), the year Chris Moneymaker won the event. Lester was also involved in the film Lucky You, starring Robert Duvall, Eric Bana, and Drew Barrymore, in which he played himself, among other poker stars.

Michael Jacob Linn is a professional poker player who won event number 49 at the 2010 World Series of Poker for $609,493.

Thang Luu is a Vietnamese American professional poker player who won the 2008 World Series of Poker $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better event and repeated as champion in the same event at the 2009 World Series of Poker. He finished runner-up in the same event at the 2007 World Series of Poker.

Thomas Marchese is an American professional poker player from Parsippany, New Jersey. Marchese lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Tony Miles is an American professional poker player, originally from Ogden, Utah but now residing in Jacksonville, Florida. In 2018 he was runner-up at the World Series of Poker Main Event.

John Edward Monnette is an American mixed-game specialist professional poker player from Palmdale, California and is a four-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner.

David Peters is an American professional poker player from Toledo, Ohio. One of the most prolific tournament players of all-time, Peters' live tournament winnings exceed $33,700,000.

Patrick "Pat" Poels is an American professional poker player from Mesa, Arizona and a two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner. He currently leads the engineering team at Snyk as the Company's SVP of Engineering, and formerly led engineering for Eventbrite as the Company’s CTO.

John Racener is an American poker professional from Port Richey, Florida, best known as the runner-up of the Main Event at the 2010 World Series of Poker. He has made World Series of Poker final tables on 18 occasions, as well as one World Poker Tour final table.

James Richburg is an American poker player from Long Beach, California.

Roberto Romanello is a Welsh professional poker player from Swansea, Wales. He has made more than $4,000,000 from live tournaments.

Brandon Shack-Harris is a professional poker player who has won two World Series of Poker bracelets. He was born in Racine, Wisconsin and is based in Chicago. Shack-Harris developed his skills in cash games at the Horseshoe Hammond. As of 2020, his total live tournament winnings exceed $3,325,000.

Stacked with Daniel Negreanu, known as simply Stacked, is a poker video game by American studio 5000 ft, released in 2006, featuring the titular professional championship player, Daniel Negreanu. Other pros also make an appearance, including Evelyn Ng, Juan Carlos Mortensen, and Erick Lindgren. The game's style of poker is Texas hold'em.

Keven Stammen is an American poker player living in Celina, Ohio. He was winner of a No Limit Texas hold 'em event of the 2009 World Series of Poker.

David Stucke is a physics professor and poker player.

Darus Suharto is a poker player born in Sumenep, Indonesia and currently residing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he works as a Certified General Accountant at York University, and is a member of the Certified General Accountants of Ontario. Suharto finished 6th in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, for which he earned $2,418,562. He had previously cashed in the Main Event in 2006, where he finished in 448th place. His three cashes at the WSOP have netted him $2,449,269, which accounts for the majority of his lifetime tournament winnings.

Katja Thater is a German professional poker player and horse breeder. She is married to another poker professional, Jan von Halle.

Péter Traply is Hungarian poker player. Traply is the first ever Hungarian to win a WSOP bracelet, back in 2009.

José-Luis Velador is a Mexican-American professional poker player from Corona, California, who is a two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner. He won his first bracelet at the 2008 World Series of Poker beating Chris Signore in the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event and then two years later at the 2010 World Series of Poker he won his second bracelet after defeating David Chiu heads-up in the $2,500 Pot Limit Hold'em/Omaha event.

Matthias Wahls is a German chess grandmaster and poker player.

Jeff Williams is an American poker player from Dunwoody, Georgia. He graduated from Dunwoody High and the University of Georgia.