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 Profile: Theo Tran

  May 01, 2009,

  In the opening week of the 2008 World Series of Poker, Theo Tran made not one, but two final tables in large-field no-limit hold’em events...

   

• Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier Sets New Record for Multi-tabling SNGs

  April 30, 2009,

  Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier arrived in Monte Carlo a couple of days before his scheduled start on Day 1b of the PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final...

   

• The PokerNews Top 10: Online Players to Watch at the 2009 WSOP

  April 29, 2009,

  The World Series of Poker — it’s where real faces are put to screen names. When Steve Billirakis took down his first bracelet back in 2007...

   

• The PokerNews Interview: Barry Greenstein, Part Two

  April 26, 2009,

  'Did you tell him real poker players don’t do interviews, because they’re too busy playing?' So yells Phil Ivey...

   

• The PokerNews Interview: Barry Greenstein, Part One

  April 25, 2009,

  Barry Greenstein occupies a uniquely central position in the poker world today. As one who has made a living playing poker...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Adam Junglen

  April 24, 2009,

  Going into the final table as the chip leader in the £1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event at last October’s World Series...

   

• The PokerNews Top 10: Latin American Players to Watch at the WSOP

  April 22, 2009,

  In 2007, it was the Scandis. In 2008, the Russians. Now, as the 2009 World Series of Poker approaches, will Latin American...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Eric “Rizen” Lynch

  April 17, 2009,

  If there’s a stereotypical image of a young online poker professional — brash, overconfident, and clad in a tragic hoodie, Eric Lynch turns that notion on its ear. You won’t find him rolling craps...

   

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

  April 15, 2009,

  European poker has absolutely exploded over the last few years, with armies of young, hoodie-clad players set to invade the World Series of Poker this summer in their quest for a bracelet. In the course of covering...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Alex Kravchenko

  April 10, 2009,

  His stare can send shivers down your spine. From behind shiny aviator glasses, he sits stoically at the tables, his cool silence giving away nary a tell. Alex Kravchenko hardly cracked a smile when he won his first WSOP bracelet...

   

• From the Poker Vaults: Layne Flack, Part 2

  April 09, 2009,

  After hitting rock bottom in 2005 and 2006, Layne Flack committed himself to getting his life back on track. He stopped drinking at the poker table. He separated himself from some of his old friends. He took on the services...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Huckleberry Seed

  April 03, 2009,

  Not only has Huckleberry Seed won the WSOP Main Event, four gold bracelets, and over $4.5 million in poker tournaments, he is regarded as one of the greatest proposition gamblers of all time. Seed has taken on challenges...

   

• The PokerNews Interview: Sami 'LarsLuzak' Kelopuro

  March 27, 2009,

  Sami 'LarsLuzak' Kelopuro is one of the big winners in the ultra-high-stakes no-limit hold'em and PLO cash games on Full Tilt Poker. The young Finn has a reputation for being one of the most aggressive and fearless cash-game

   

• The PokerNews Profile: David 'Raptor' Benefield

  March 26, 2009,

  David Benefield isn't afraid to take a shot. If there's a game running where he feels he has an edge, you're likely to find him in it. It was Benefield's willingness to take these calculated risks that allowed this...

   

• The PokerNews Interview: Bertrand 'Elky' Grospellier

  March 21, 2009,

  Bertrand Grospellier is one of the hottest poker players in the world. Since the start of January, 2008, when Grospellier won $2,000,000 for taking down the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, Grospellier has been on a run...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Joe Sebok

  March 20, 2009,

  Joe Sebok has an unfortunate nickname. After finishing in seventh place on the television final-table bubble not once, but twice, on the World Poker Tour, Sebok's pals started needling him with the moniker 'Seventhbok'...

   

• The PokerNews Top 10: WSOP Main Event Runners-up

  March 18, 2009,

  The first things anyone will notice upon entering the Amazon Room during the World Series of Poker are the giant, twenty-foot-high posters depicting the winners of each year's Main Event. Moss. Brunson. Ungar. Ferguson...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Mark Vos

  March 13, 2009,

  Mark Vos is no stranger to controversy. He's irritated many a tournament director with his fondness for building precarious-looking edifices with his chips and often finds himself on the receiving end of complaints from...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Vanessa Rousso

  March 06, 2009,

  Vanessa Rousso can speak three languages. She's a citizen of two countries, graduated from Duke in two and a half years, and one look at her academic resume (debate team, business club, mock trial, volunteer work...

   

• The PokerNews Top 10: Famous Final-table Bubbles

  March 04, 2009,

  Every poker player understands the sharp sting of the money bubble — coming so close, yet leaving empty-handed after days of work. These ten players, however, dealt with a different kind of professional disappointment...

   

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