Share This
table started by
Freebase Staff for the Gambling Base
Topic is one of the core types in Freebase. Topics contain a set of default properties that are generally useful when describing a topic: display name, alias, article, image and webpage.
Most types in Freebase carry these topic properties by default. If an item in Freebase is typed 'topic' it...
more
Add More Topics
Save this view to a base, or just for yourself.
about 500 Topic topics matching:
Filter this Collection|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| x name | x image | x Also known as | x article | x Subjects |
| Keno |
|
Keno is a lottery-like or bingo-like gambling game often played at modern casinos, and is also offered as a game in some state lotteries. A traditional live casino keno game uses a circular glass enclosure called a "bubble" containing 80 ping pong...
|
||
| Shannon Elizabeth |
|
Shannon Elizabeth (born September 7, 1973) is an American actress and former fashion model. Elizabeth came to prominence in the 1999 comedy film American Pie.
Born Shannon Elizabeth Fadal, Elizabeth's father is Syrian and her mother is of Irish,...
|
||
| Titanic Thompson |
Alvin Clarence Thomas (1892–1974) was a gambler, golfer and hustler who created the character of Titanic Thompson and lived that fictional character's secret life.
Alvin Clarence Thomas, born in Rogers, Arkansas, began conducting his nomadic,...
|
|||
| Wil Wheaton |
|
Richard William Wheaton III |
Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972) is an American actor and writer. As the former, he is best known for his portrayals of Wesley Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gordie LaChance in the film Stand...
|
|
| Tobey Maguire |
|
Tobias Vincent Maguire |
Tobias Vincent "Tobey" Maguire (born June 27, 1975) is an American actor. He began his career in the 1980s, and has since become best known for his role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the Spider-Man films.
Maguire was born in Santa Monica, California...
|
|
| Phil Hellmuth |
|
Phillip Jerome Hellmuth, Jr. (born July 16, 1964) is an American professional poker player. He is best known for holding a record 11 World Series of Poker bracelets, for winning the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker and for his...
|
||
| Mike Caro |
|
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...
|
||
| Doyle Brunson |
|
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,...
|
||
| Doc Holliday |
|
John Henry Holliday |
John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887) was an American dentist, gambler and gunfighter of the American Old West, who is usually remembered for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
"Doc" Holliday...
|
|
| Mimi Rogers |
|
Miriam Spickler |
Mimi Rogers (born January 27, 1956) is an American movie actress and competitive poker player.
Rogers was born Miriam Spickler in Coral Gables, Florida, the daughter of Philip J. Spickler, a civil engineer. Her father was Jewish and mother...
|
|
| Wild Bill Hickok |
|
James Butler Hickok (May 27, 1837 – August 2, 1876), better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a figure in the American Old West. His skills as a gunfighter and scout, along with his reputation as a lawman, provided the basis for his fame, although some...
|
||
| Mega Millions |
|
Mega Millions is a multi-jurisdictional $1 lottery game in the United States. There are 12 jurisdictions that have Mega Millions, while 33 others, including the District of Columbia, and the US Virgin Islands, offer Powerball, Mega Millions' main...
|
||
| Gabe Kaplan |
Gabriel W. "Gabe" Kaplan (born March 31, 1945) is an American comedian, actor and professional poker player. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for his role as Gabriel "Gabe" Kotter in the 1970s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, but he...
|
|||
| David Sklansky |
|
David Sklansky (born 1947) is an American professional poker player and author.
Sklansky was born and raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, where he graduated from Teaneck High School in 1966. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, but left before...
|
||
| Chris Moneymaker |
|
Christopher Bryan Moneymaker (born November 21, 1975, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American poker player who won the main event at the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP). His 2003 win is said to have revolutionized poker because he was the first person...
|
||
| Linda Johnson |
|
Linda Johnson (born 14 October, 1953) is an American professional poker player, journalist and consultant, based in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Linda Johnson was born in 1953 in Long Island, New York. Before becoming involved in poker, Johnson worked for the...
|
||
| Powerball |
|
Powerball is an American lottery game sold through U.S. lotteries as a shared jackpot pool game. It is coordinated by the Multi-State Lottery Association (MUSL), a non-profit association formed by an agreement with member lotteries. Powerball...
|
||
| Richard Brodie |
Richard Reeves "Quiet Lion" Brodie is an American computer programmer, motivational speaker, writer, and professional poker player. He is the original author of Microsoft Word and was employee number 77 at Microsoft. He is the author of two books:...
|
|||
| National Lottery |
|
Heritage Lottery Fund |
The National Lottery is the largest lottery in the United Kingdom. It is operated by Camelot Group, to whom the licence was granted in 1994, 2001 and again in 2007. The lottery is regulated by The National Lottery Commission. The National Lottery...
|
|
| David Williams |
|
David Anthony Williams (born June 9, 1980 in Arlington, Texas) is a professional poker and Magic: The Gathering player. Receiving a score of 1550 out of 1600 on his SATs, he was accepted to several Ivy League universities, including Princeton...
|
||
| Stu Ungar |
|
Stuart Errol "Stu" Ungar (September 8, 1953 – November 22, 1998) was a professional poker and gin rummy player, widely considered to have been the greatest Texas hold 'em and gin rummy player of all time. He is one of only two people to have won the...
|
||
| Jennifer Tilly |
|
Jennifer E. Chan |
Jennifer Tilly (born September 16, 1958) is an American actress. She is an Academy Award nominee, and a World Series of Poker Ladies' Event bracelet winner.
Tilly was born Jennifer E. Chan in Harbor City, Los Angeles, California. She is the second...
|
|
| Johnny Chan |
|
Johnny Chan (Traditional Chinese: 陳強尼), born in Guangzhou (Canton), China in 1957, now living in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a professional poker player.
Chan moved with his family in 1962 from Guangzhou to Hong Kong, then in 1968 to Phoenix, Arizona and...
|
||
| Phil Ivey |
|
Phillip D. "Phil" Ivey (born February 1, 1976) is an American professional poker player who has won seven World Series of Poker bracelets and has a World Poker Tour title, making the final table there a record eight times. Currently listed as second...
|
||
| Annie Duke |
|
Annie Duke (born Anne LaBarr Lederer; September 13, 1965) is a professional poker player and author who won a bracelet in the 2004 World Series of Poker $2,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Event and was the winner of the 2004 World Series of Poker...
|
||
| Howard Lederer |
|
Howard Henry Lederer (born October 30, 1964) is an American professional poker player and brother of poker professional Annie Duke, and author, poet Katy Lederer.
Lederer was born in Concord, New Hampshire. His father is Richard Lederer, a writer...
|
||
| Kathy Liebert |
|
Kathleen H. Liebert (born October 1, 1967 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American professional poker player. She is the first woman ever to win a tournament with a first prize of $1,000,000.
Liebert grew up on Long Island in New York. She attended...
|
||
| Erik Seidel |
|
Erik Seidel (born November 6, 1959) is an American professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada with eight World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title.
Seidel was born in New York City. Originally a tournament backgammon player...
|
||
| Dan Harrington |
|
Dan Harrington (born December 6, 1945 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is a professional poker player. Harrington chose his own nickname "Action Dan" even though he is known for being a tight conservative player. He is a distant cousin to both...
|
||
| Greg Raymer |
|
Gregory Raymer (born June 25, 1964, in Minot, North Dakota), nicknamed "Fossilman," is a professional poker player. He is best known for winning the 2004 World Series of Poker main event, and for the opaque holographic sunglasses that he sometimes...
|
||
| Chris Ferguson |
|
Christopher Philip Ferguson (born on April 11, 1963) is an American professional poker player. He has won five World Series of Poker events, including the 2000 WSOP Main Event, and the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
Ferguson was born...
|
||
| Berry Johnston |
|
Berry Enfield Johnston (born c. 1935 ) is an American professional poker player. He is best known as the 1986 World Champion, but he has also won four other bracelets at the World Series of Poker in addition to cashes and wins in many other...
|
||
| Bobby Baldwin |
Bobby Baldwin (born c. 1950) is a professional poker player, off road racer and casino executive.
When Baldwin won the 1978 World Series of Poker main event he became the youngest winner in its history, to be superseded by Stu Ungar in 1980, Phil...
|
|||
| Lyle Berman |
|
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...
|
||
| Roger Moore |
Roger Moore is a professional poker player.
Moore grew up the son of sharecroppers. He quit school in the eighth grade and soon afterwards entered into military service. After the military he worked as a civil servant and for fun he would play poker...
|
|||
| Little Man Popwell |
Julius Oral "Little Man" Popwell (June 1, 1912 – May 19, 1966) was a well-known poker player.
Popwell is one of the most famous poker players from the first half of the 20th century. His preferred game was five card stud, and he often played against...
|
|||
| Jack Keller |
Jack Keller (December 29, 1942 - December 5, 2003) was a professional poker player.
Keller served in the United States Air Force prior to becoming a poker pro. He won the 1984 World Series of Poker main event, 3 WSOP bracelets and more than $1,580...
|
|||
| T. J. Cloutier |
|
Thomas James Cloutier (born October 13, 1939) is a professional poker player from Richardson, Texas. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2006.
Cloutier was born in Albany, California, and attended the University of California, Berkeley on...
|
||
| Amarillo Slim |
Thomas Austin Preston, Jr. (born December 31, 1928 in Johnson, Arkansas), known as Amarillo Slim, is a professional gambler, famous for his poker skills and proposition bets. He won the main event at the 1972 World Series of Poker. He has been a...
|
|||
| Chip Reese |
|
David Edward Reese (March 28, 1951 – December 4, 2007), more commonly known as Chip Reese, was an American professional poker player and gambler from Centerville, Ohio. He is widely regarded to have been the greatest cash game poker player who ever...
|
||
| Johnny Moss |
Johnny Moss (May 14, 1907 – December 16, 1995) was a long-time gambler and professional poker player.
Moss was born in Marshall, Texas in 1907 and grew up in Dallas, Texas where he learned how to gamble as a young boy. A group of cheaters taught him...
|
|||
| Benny Binion |
Lester Ben "Benny" Binion (November 20, 1904 - December 25, 1989) was a well known American casino owner and poker enthusiast.
Binion was born and raised in Grayson County, Texas, north of Dallas. His parents initially kept him out of school due to...
|
|||
| Corky McCorquodale |
Felton "Corky" McCorquodale was a professional poker player, noted as the person who introduced Texas hold 'em to Las Vegas in 1963. Since then, the game has become one of the most popular poker variants in history.
He was a charter inductee into...
|
|||
| Sid Wyman |
Sidney "Sid" Wyman, (St. Louis, Missouri, June 1910-June 1978) was a famous poker player and hotel owner in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Wyman was co-owner of several Las Vegas casinos including the Sands, Riviera, Royal Nevada and The Dunes.
Wyman was a...
|
|||
| Robert Varkonyi |
Robert Varkonyi (born 1961 in New York) is an American poker player, best known for winning the main event of the 2002 World Series of Poker.
Varkonyi first started playing poker as an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
|
|||
| Scotty Nguyen |
|
Thuan B. "Scotty" Nguyễn (born October 28, 1962 in Nha Trang, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American professional poker player who is a five time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner, most notably as the winner of the 1998 World Series of Poker...
|
||
| Barry Greenstein |
|
Barry Greenstein (born December 30, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is a professional poker player. He has won a number of major events, including three at the World Series of Poker and two on the World Poker Tour. For a while, Greenstein donated his...
|
||
| Huck Seed |
|
Huckleberry Seed (born January 15, 1969 in Santa Clara, California) is an American professional poker player who won the main event of the 1996 World Series of Poker.
Seed grew up in Corvallis, Montana, where he attended Corvallis High School. He...
|
||
| Russ Hamilton |
|
Russ Hamilton is the 1994 World Series of Poker main event champion. He defeated Hugh Vincent in heads-up play and won $1 million in first-prize money, as well as his body weight in silver. Following his World Series win, Hamilton served as a...
|
||
| Jim Bechtel |
|
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 came close to winning a WSOP bracelet in...
|
||
| Hamid Dastmalchi |
|
Hamid Reza Dastmalchi is an Iranian-American professional poker player.
Dastmalchi won the 1992 World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event, which is his largest tournament win at $1 million. He again made the final table of the main event in 1995,...
|
||
| Brad Daugherty |
Brad Daugherty (born July 5, 1951 in Mountain Grove, Missouri) is a professional poker player.
Daugherty began playing poker in 1969 on a high school trip. Following high school he worked in the construction industry, but after hearing of large...
|
|||
| Tom McEvoy |
|
Thomas K. McEvoy (born November 14, 1944 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.) is a professional poker player and author.
McEvoy was an accountant, but after he was laid off from his job, he took up poker full time in 1978. He first learned to play poker...
|
||
| Bill Smith |
Bill Smith was a renowned professional poker player.
Smith was a staple at the World Series of Poker during the 1980s. He was involved in three final tables of the main event. At the 1981 and 1986 WSOP he placed 5th, but at the 1985 World Series of...
|
|||
| Jack Straus |
|
Jack Straus (June 16, 1930 - August 1988) was an American professional poker player.
Straus began playing in World Series of Poker events in the early 1970s. Straus finished in fourth place in the 1972 Main Event. He won his first bracelet in 1973...
|
||
| Hal Fowler |
Hal Fowler (January 12, 1927 – November 7, 2000) was an American poker player. He is considered the first non-professional player to become poker's World Champion.
Although a relative unknown, Fowler won the 1979 World Series of Poker main event. At...
|
|||
| Sailor Roberts |
Bryan W. "Sailor" Roberts (March 7, 1931 – June 23, 1995) was an American professional poker player.
Before becoming a poker professional Roberts was a rounder and traveled the country looking for games along with other legends such as Doyle Brunson...
|
|||
| Puggy Pearson |
Walter Clyde Pearson (January 29, 1929 in Tennessee – April 12, 2006) was an American professional poker player.
Pearson grew up in Tennessee in a family with nine siblings. He got his nickname "Puggy" from a childhood accident that left him with a...
|
|||
| Men Nguyen |
|
Men "The Master" Nguyễn (born 1954 in Phan Thiet, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player.
In 1967, he dropped out of school at age 13 and became a bus driver to help support his family. In early 1978, a staunch anti-Communist,...
|
||
| Bill Boyd |
William "Bill" Walter Boyd (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 players in the...
|
|||
