Poker People

From player biographies to stories about the lives of today's top poker stars. This includes special events sponsored by players, and anything going on with their lives on and off the poker table.

• The PokerNews Top 10: Celebrity Performances in Poker

  July 01, 2009,

  This is the week when celebrities descend upon the World Series of Poker, with the Ante Up for Africa Celebrity-Charity Tournament on Thursday...

   

• The PokerNews Interview: PPA Executive Director John Pappas, Part 1

  June 27, 2009,

  Poker Players Alliance Executive Director John Pappas is a native Arizonan who’s been involved in politics for his entire adult life...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Isaac Haxton

  June 26, 2009,

  Isaac Haxton was born in suburban New York City and grew up in Syracuse, where his father was an English professor. Haxton was introduced to skill...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Nam Le

  June 19, 2009,

  Nam Le is one of those rare poker players that can be a total chameleon on the felt when it comes to style. Watch him one day and he’s running...

   

• From the Poker Vaults: Billy Baxter

  June 18, 2009,

  If Billy Baxter weren’t so good at everything else he did — playing gin, betting on sports, and managing boxers, just to name a few...

   

• The PokerNews Top 10: Players Most Likely to Win Poker’s ‘Triple Crown’

  June 17, 2009,

  Roland De Wolfe’s stunning victory in the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 8 or Better event at the WSOP has put the “Triple Crown” on the collective brain...

   

• PokerNews Profile: Dario Alioto

  June 12, 2009,

  There’s no question as to Dario Alioto’s favorite form of poker. The man lives for pot-limit Omaha. If there’s a major PLO tournament...

   

• From the Poker Vaults: Bill Boyd

  June 11, 2009,

  Out of all the people who have been inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame, perhaps none has been more deserving than Bill Boyd...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Josh Arieh

  June 05, 2009,

  Josh Arieh won his first WSOP bracelet a full five years before his first television appearance, the ESPN cameras capturing him in a few...

   

• The PokerNews Top 10: Most WSOP Cashes

  June 03, 2009,

  Nikolay Evdakov shattered records in 2008 when he posted ten cashes during the World Series of Poker. In 2007, it was Michael Binger...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Justin Bonomo

  May 29, 2009,

  Justin Bonomo was born on September 30, 1985 and grew up in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Fairfax, Virginia. At the age of eight he was introduced to the card...

   

• The PokerNews Top 10: Multiple Bracelet Winners in a Single WSOP

  May 27, 2009,

  It’s enough of a feat to win one WSOP bracelet in a year, but there is an elite group of poker players who are talented (and lucky) enough to have taken home multiple...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: J.C. Tran

  May 22, 2009,

  Until last summer, J.C. Tran often found himself atop an unenviable list — the one containing...

   

• The PokerNews Top 10: Ten Top WSOP Bracelet Winners

  May 20, 2009,

  Only a week remains until a new crop of professionals and dreamers alike descend upon the Rio...

   

• The PokerNews Interview: Kara Scott

  May 16, 2009,

  Kara Scott’s poker career has taken off. The TV host of the European Poker Tour is familiar to poker players in the UK...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Isaac “westmenloAA” Baron

  May 15, 2009,

  The PokerStars Sunday Million. The Full Tilt $750,000 Guarantee. The Super Tuesday. The Sunday Mulligan...

   

• The PokerNews Interview: Andy Bloch

  May 09, 2009,

  Since winning his first poker tournament in 1993, Andy Bloch has amassed over $4 million in tournament winnings while also picking up a couple of electrical engineering degrees...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Dag Martin Mikkelsen

  May 08, 2009,

  With three years as a professional poker player already behind him, Dag Martin Mikkelsen at last made his first final table on the European Poker Tour...

   

• The PokerNews Top 10: Ten Women to Watch at the WSOP

  May 06, 2009,

  As a woman in poker, I have a huge soft spot for my fellow ladies. We are so vastly outnumbered in every tournament field we enter — 98 men buy in for every two of us — and our accomplishments on the felt are all-too-often scrutinized through...

   

• The PokerNews Interview: Phil 'OMGClayAiken' Galfond

  May 02, 2009,

  Phil 'OMGClayAiken' Galfond is fast becoming one of the most successful poker players in the world. Last year the high-stakes cash player...

   

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