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| x Tom Abdo |
Tom Abdo (April 12, 1894 – March 1967) was a poker player inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1982. He died after suffering a heart attack while playing.
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| x Crandell Addington |
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Crandell Addington (born June 2, 1938 in Graham, Texas) is an entrepreneur and poker player who is best known as one of the founders of the World Series of Poker, and is a member of the Poker Hall of Fame.
Known as "Dandy" because he was always well...
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| x Ben Affleck |
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Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt (born August 15, 1972), better known as Ben Affleck, is an American actor, film director, writer, and producer. He became known with his performances in Kevin Smith's films such as Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), and...
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| x Saif Ahmad |
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Saifuddin "Saif" Ahmad is a Bangladeshi-American restaurateur and World Series of Poker champion. Ahmad is the owner of several Tony Roma's restaurants in Los Angeles, California, and won the 2007 World Series of Poker bracelet in the $2,000 Limit...
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| x Daniel Alaei |
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Daniel Christopher Alaei (born 1983) is a professional poker player from Santa Fe Springs, California. He is of Assyrian Iranian descent.
Primarily a $50–100 no-limit Texas hold 'em cash game player, Alaei won his first World Series of Poker...
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| x Jesse Alto |
Jesse Michael Alto (January 1, 1927 – May 3, 1998), was an American poker player, best known for his numerous main event final table appearances at the World Series of Poker.
Alto was a fixture at the World Series of Poker in the 1970s and 1980s....
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| x Amarillo Slim |
Thomas Austin Preston, Jr. (December 31, 1928 – April 29, 2012), known as Amarillo Slim, was an American professional gambler known for his poker skills and proposition bets. Preston won the 1972 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and was...
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| x Howard Andrew |
Howard Andrew (born 1934) is an American poker player, best known for his success at the 1976 World Series of Poker (WSOP). He has participated in the WSOP Main Event each year since 1974, the longest such streak of any player.
Andrew won "both The...
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| x Sam Angel |
Sam Angel (November 30, 1920 – March 21, 2007) was a poker player best known as a top Razz player and for his two wins at the World Series of Poker (WSOP).
At the 1973 World Series of Poker, Angel won the $1,000 buy-in WSOP Razz event, with its $32...
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| x Mickey Appleman |
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Mickey L. Appleman (born c. 1946) is an American professional poker player, sports bettor, and sports handicapper now living in Fort Lee, New Jersey. His poker accomplishments include winning four WSOP bracelets, all in different variations of poker...
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| x Josh Arieh |
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Joshua Arieh (born September 26, 1974 in Rochester, New York) is an American professional poker player. Arieh has been competing in poker competitions since 1999. He is married to Angela Arieh, with whom he has three children.
Arieh finished 3rd in...
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| x Louis Asmo |
Louis Asmo is a professional poker player from Columbus, Ohio. He won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 1997 in the $3,000 Limit Texas hold 'em event. Asmo's other notable finish came when he lost heads up against David Chiu in the 1999 Tournament...
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| x Joe Awada |
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Joe Awada (born Yehia Awada on March 12, 1959 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a professional poker player, based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Awada moved from Lebanon to the United States in his early teenage years, working as a juggler, eventually touring with...
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| x Dao Bac |
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Dao Bac is a 51 year old professional poker player from Garden Grove, California. In 2007, Dao won a World Series of Poker bracelet in the $1,000 S.H.O.E. event. S.H.O.E. is a rotational event compromising of Seven-Card Stud, Limit Hold'em, Omaha...
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| x Steve Badger |
Steve Badger is a former professional poker player and World Series of Poker bracelet winner. He also owned Playwinningpoker.com before he sold it to PokerStars in 2010.
Badger has had tournament wins at the 1993 California State Lowball...
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| x Eli Balas |
Eli Balas is an American professional poker player, based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Balas has won 3 bracelets at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). He has also finished 2nd in 5 WSOP preliminary events.
Balas was also on the television bubble for the...
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| x Bobby Baldwin |
Bobby Baldwin (born c. 1950) is a professional poker player, off-road racer and casino executive. As a poker player, Baldwin is best known as the 1978 world champion, becoming the youngest main event champion at that time.
Baldwin was born in Tulsa,...
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| x Michael Banducci |
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Michael Banducci is an American professional poker player who won a 2008 World Series of Poker bracelet event.
As of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed $959,000. His 10 cashes at the WSOP account for $853,732 of those winnings.
Banducci...
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| x John Barch |
John Derick "Tex" Barch is a businessman and professional poker player from McKinney, Texas whose rise to fame came in the 2005 World Series of Poker. Barch made the final table at the Main Event, finishing third, behind Steve Dannenmann and...
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| x Isaac Baron |
Isaac Baron (born July 10, 1987) an American professional poker player from Menlo Park, California. He was the winner of the first Card Player Magazine Online Poker Player of the Year Award in 2007.
Playing under the screen names of "westmenloAA" on...
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| x Joe Bartholdi Jr |
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Joseph (Joe) N. Bartholdi, Jr. (born 1980 in Southern California) is an American professional poker player, based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Bartholdi was a hustler from an early age. Known as "Gambles", he used to sell cigarettes to his classmates at...
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| x Don Baruch |
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Donald Baruch is a 42 year old owner of an investment and management services company. In 2007, he won a World Series of Poker bracelet in the $1,500 NLHE Shootout event. This was the first time Baruch won a tournament.
Baruch is married with 2...
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| x Billy Baxter |
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William E. Baxter, Jr. (born 1940) is an American professional poker player and sports bettor. He has won numerous tournament titles in his career as a professional poker player, including seven World Series of Poker bracelets.
He was inducted into...
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| x David Baxter |
David Baxter was an American poker player from Corpus Christi, Texas, who won two bracelets at the World Series of Poker.
Baxter first cashed in the WSOP in 1980 in a no limit hold'em event. He won his first bracelet in 1983 in the $1,500 no limit...
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| x Andrew Beal |
D. Andrew "Andy" Beal (born November 11, 1952) is a Dallas, Texas-based billionaire businessman who was born and raised in Lansing, Michigan. He made his fortune in banking and real estate and is the founder and chairman of Beal Bank and Beal...
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| x Jim Bechtel |
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James Gary "Jim" Bechtel (born 1952?) is an American cotton farmer and poker player, based in Gilbert, Arizona. He is best known for winning the 1993 Main Event at the World Series of Poker (WSOP).
Bechtel began playing poker as a recreational...
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| x Jean-Robert Bellande |
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Jean-Robert F. Bellande (born September 17, 1970 in Long Island, New York) is an American nightclub owner, promoter, poker player and reality TV contestant.
He has a Bachelor of Arts in marketing from Azusa Pacific University and is now living in...
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| x Ernest Bennett |
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Sir Ernest Nathaniel Bennett (12 December 1868 – 2 February 1947) was a British politician and writer. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Woodstock (1906–10), and for Cardiff Central from 1929 until he retired in 1945. A close ally of Ramsay...
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| x Gary Berland |
Gary "Bones" Berland (May 9, 1950 – February 6, 1988) was an American professional poker player who won five World Series of Poker bracelets.
Berland was born and raised in Gardena, California. He moved to Las Vegas with his family in 1968 and...
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| x Lyle Berman |
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Lyle Arnold Berman (born August 6, 1941 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a professional poker player and business executive.
Berman grew up in Minnesota and attended the University of Minnesota where he graduated in 1964 with a degree in business...
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| x Joe Bernstein |
Joe Bernstein (January 5, 1899 – November 12, 1975) was a poker player and road gambler.
He was born in Russia, and as a young boy emigrated to the United States with his family. The family settled in Pendelton, Oregon. After leaving home at age 21,...
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| x Chandrasekhar Billavara |
Chandrasekhar Billavara is a poker player who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in a $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event.
Billavara competes in a weekly home game with friends. He jokes that he looks forward to confronting his friends by stating, “Now,...
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| x Steve Billirakis |
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Steve Billirakis (born May 23, 1986 in Hampshire, Illinois) is an American professional poker player.
Billirakis won the first tournament of the 2007 World Series of Poker winning the $5,000 World Championship Mixed Hold'em Limit/No-Limit event...
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| x Michael Binger |
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Michael W. Binger (born December 20, 1976 in Delray Beach, Florida) is a part-time professional poker player, based in Atherton, California. He has a brother, Nick Binger, who also has several high-profile tournament cashes.
Binger graduated from...
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| x Benny Binion |
Lester Ben "Benny" Binion (November 20, 1904 – December 25, 1989) was a well-known American casino owner, mobster, poker enthusiast, cutting horse owner and convicted felon.
Binion was born and raised in Grayson County, Texas, north of Dallas. His...
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| x Jack Binion |
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Jack Benny Binion (born February 21, 1937 in Dallas, Texas) is an American casino operator. Jack is the son of casino magnate Benny Binion and worked for his father at Binion's Horseshoe, a casino and hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Jack became...
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| x Ted Binion |
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Lonnie Theodore "Ted" Binion (November 28, 1943 – September 17, 1998) was a wealthy U.S. gambling executive and one of the sons of famed Las Vegas casino magnate Lester Ben "Benny" Binion, owner of Binion's Horseshoe. His death has been a subject of...
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| x Andy Bloch |
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Andrew Elliot Bloch (born June 1, 1969 in New Haven, Connecticut) is a professional poker player. He holds two electrical engineering degrees from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School.
Bloch started playing seriously in 1992, though he was part of...
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| x John Adikes Bond |
John Adikes Bond is an author, attorney, poker player, political activist and real estate developer born in Jamaica, New York January 14, 1955. He grew up in Massapequa and Port Washington, New York before moving to South Florida in 1972. He...
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| x John Bonetti |
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John Joseph Bonetti (June 1928 – June 27, 2008) was an American professional poker player from Houston, Texas.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Bonetti began playing at the age of 54, and won three bracelets at the World Series of Poker (WSOP).
He has...
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| x Justin Bonomo |
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Justin Bonomo (born September 30, 1985) (known online as ZeeJustin) is an American professional poker player who was a sponsored member of Team Bodog until January 2010.
Bonomo placed 30th in the 2005 Pokerstars Caribbean Poker Adventure in...
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| x Farzad Bonyadi |
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Farzad "Freddy" Bonyadi (born 1959? in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian professional poker player based in Aliso Viejo, California, who has won 3 World Series of Poker bracelets.
Bonyadi moved from Iran to America in 1983, where he worked as an executive...
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| x Alexander Borteh |
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Alex Borteh is a professional poker player who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in a World Series of Poker event, the $3,000 Limit Hold'em event. Borteh has cashed in 4 WSOP events and made two final tables. In 2005, he finished in 3rd place in...
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| x Burt Boutin |
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Burton A. Boutin is a professional poker player from Henderson, Nevada who has won two World Series of Poker bracelets. He also finished in second place at the 2006 Mandalay Bay Poker Championship winning $604,765. Boutin is known for drinking "Red...
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| x Bill Boyd |
William "Bill" Walter Boyd (January 27, 1906 – November 21, 1997) was a professional poker player.
Boyd was a five-card stud player; he won all four of his World Series of Poker bracelets in five-card stud. Boyd and Doyle Brunson are the only...
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| x Russ Boyd |
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Russell Aaron Boyd (born 1980), commonly known as Dutch Boyd, is an American professional poker player from Culver City, California (originally from Columbia, Missouri).
Boyd began attending college at age 12 after scoring a 23 on the ACT and...
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| x Sally Boyer |
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Sally Anne Boyer is the 2007 World Series of Poker bracelet winner in the $1,000 World Championship Ladies Event No Limit Hold'em event.
She is from Park City, Utah.
Prior to the 2007 event, Boyer had only been playing poker for less than a year....
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| x Richard Brodie |
Richard Reeves Brodie (born November 10, 1959) is an American computer programmer and author. He was the original creator of Microsoft Word. After leaving Microsoft, Brodie became a motivational speaker and authored two bestselling books.
Brodie was...
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| x Starla Brodie |
Starla Brodie is a two-time World Series of Poker champion having won the 1979 Mixed Doubles - No Limit Hold'em and the 1995 $1,000 Ladies - Limit 7 Card Stud.
As of 2011, her total WSOP tournament winnings total $57,030.
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| x Chad Brown |
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Chad Lewis Brown (born August 13, 1961) is an American actor, poker player and color commentator, based in Los Angeles, California.
Brown was born in Manhattan, New York in 1961. Brown was raised in The Bronx, where he began playing poker in Italian...
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| x Walter Browne |
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Walter Shawn Browne (born January 10, 1949 in Sydney, Australia) is an American chess Grandmaster and poker player. Browne has won the U.S. Chess Championship six times.
Browne was born to an American father and an Australian mother. His family...
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| x Tom Brownscombe |
Tom Brownscombe (born 1968) is a USCF rated chess master and poker player living in the United States. He holds the chess title of FIDE Master (FM).
Brownscombe was Scholastic Coordinator for the United States Chess Federation from 2000 to 2003. He...
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| x Doyle Brunson |
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Doyle F. Brunson (born August 10, 1933) is an American professional poker player who has played professionally for over 50 years. He is the first two-time World Series of Poker main event champion to win consecutively, a Poker Hall of Fame inductee,...
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| x Todd Brunson |
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Todd Alan Brunson (born August 7, 1969) is an American professional poker player and the son of poker legend Doyle Brunson. Although Brunson's father Doyle is now a poker playing legend, Brunson did not learn the game when he was young. It was not...
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| x Vince Burgio |
Vincent Burgio (born in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American professional poker player based in West Hills, California.
Burgio is a graduate of the University of Missouri. He moved to California in 1976 to set up a construction business and began...
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| x Deby Callihan |
Deby Callihan was a World Series of Poker champion in the 1980 $400 Ladies - Limit 7 Card Stud.
As of 2008, her total WSOP tournament winnings exceed $14,880.
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| x Brandon Cantu |
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Brandon M. Cantu (born May 10, 1981 in Vancouver, Washington) is an American professional poker player. Upon winning a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2006, Cantu relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada. On March 14, 2007, Cantu became one of only 27...
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| x Mike Cappelletti |
A. Michael (Mike) Cappelletti (born 1942) is an American bridge player and poker authority. Amongst poker players he is known as the author of the books Cappelletti on Omaha, The Best of Cappelletti on Omaha, Poker at the Millennium and How to Win...
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| x Avery Cardoza |
Avery Cardoza is an American author, professional gambler, and founder of a publishing empire with prominent reaches into the four major media — books, magazines, retail software, and Internet gaming.
In 1981, Cardoza gave up professional blackjack...
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| x Mike Caro |
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Mike A. Caro (born May 16, 1944 in Joplin, MO) is a professional poker player, pioneer poker theorist, author of poker books, and casino executive.
In 1978 he contributed 50 statistical tables to Doyle Brunson's Super/System and wrote that book's...
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