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 Interview: Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott

  March 03, 2009,

  Dave 'The Devilfish' Ulliott has one of the most recognizable faces and nicknames in poker, and has compiled a tournament record that very few players can match. With a WSOP bracelet, WPT trophy and the inaugural...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Peter 'Nordberg' Feldman

  February 27, 2009,

  Peter Feldman is one of the more easygoing guys you'll encounter on the tournament circuit, though his patience was no doubt tried at this week's $10,000 L.A. Poker Classic Main Event. Up to over a million in chips...

   

• The PokerNews Top 10: Poker's One-hit Wonders

  February 25, 2009,

  Taking a look through a list of WSOP and WPT winners since the poker boom, names like Gus Hansen, Erik Seidel, Daniel Negreanu, and Erick Lindgren will pop up over and over again. But what of those champions who took home...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Jeff Madsen

  February 20, 2009,

  Though he'd already enjoyed a poker career that is the envy of many of his peers, Jeff Madsen still had a monkey to get off his back. Despite his two WSOP bracelets, his $2 million in earnings, and his sponsorship deal...

   

• Women's Poker Spotlight: Kathy Liebert

  February 19, 2009,

  The poker world is packed with players who have a run of good fortune and misread that short-term success as a starting point for a career as a poker pro. There is nothing wrong in dreaming; every professional player...

   

• Dueling Gus Hansen: Checking in with Theo Jorgensen

  February 14, 2009,

  On the 21st of February in Copenhagen, Denmark, two of the most successful Scandinavian poker professionals of all time, Gus Hansen and Theo Jorgensen, will duke it out in an amateur boxing match with money on the line...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Shannon Shorr

  February 13, 2009,

  On Day 4 of the 2007 World Series of Poker, Shannon Shorr arrived at the Rio in a wheelchair, his back in a brace after sustaining a twelve-foot fall from a ledge in his living room onto a partially deflated air mattress...

   

• Women's Poker Spotlight: Madeleine 'Mad' Harper

  February 12, 2009,

  You might never see Madeleine 'Mad' Harper sitting at the table next to you, but she's there every step of the way during each and every tournament on the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour...

   

• The PokerNews Top 10: The Top 10 Ladies of Tournament Poker

  February 11, 2009,

  'This is a man's world,' declared James Brown in his infamous hit song, and in many ways, there isn't a truer statement about poker. Though women still only make up only about 2% of any given live tournament field...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Liz Lieu

  February 06, 2009,

  They call her the 'Poker Diva' — a tongue-in-cheek moniker that stemmed from Lieu's fondness for Roberto Cavalli clothing and Chanel purses. Though Lieu's wardrobe rivals that of any Hollywood starlet, her priorities

   

• The PokerNews Top 10: The Top 10 Breakout Performances

  February 04, 2009,

  It's hard to believe, but since Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 WSOP Main Event and spawned the worldwide poker boom, the WSOP has awarded over 200 bracelets and the WPT has crowned over 100 champions. While many of these champions...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Gavin Griffin

  January 30, 2009,

  The record Gavin Griffin set as the youngest player ever to win a World Series of Poker bracelet, in all honesty, didn't last too long. Eric Froehlich broke it only a year later, Jeff Madsen broke it again a year later...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: J.C. Alvarado

  January 23, 2009,

  Juan Carlos Alvarado first appeared on our radar back at the 2007 L.A. Poker Classic Main Event. Jovial, talkative, and perpetually decked out in colorful soccer jerseys, Alvarado ground his way through one...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Vivek Rajkumar

  January 16, 2009,

  'Ship it to Vivek! Show 'em king high!' was the shout that came from one of the inebriated young men on the rail, the Rio's Amazon Ballroom nearly empty at the 3 a.m. hour...

   

• Women's Poker Spotlight: Ann-Margaret Johnston, Poker Accountant

  January 15, 2009,

  The season to be jolly has come and gone. Now U.S. citizens enter into a new season, one that might not be so jolly for some -- tax season. April 15th is on its way so get out your pencils, notebooks -- you did keep all...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Hevad Khan

  January 09, 2009,

  After a 2007 WSOP Main Event performance where his table mannerisms included running around with a chair over his head, bellowing 'Bulldozer!' at the top of his lungs when he won a pot and some… interesting…

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Chad Brown

  January 02, 2009,

  To say that Chad Brown sets huge goals for himself is a massive understatement. Going into the 2007 World Series of Poker, Brown didn't just want to win one bracelet—he wanted two. Though he didn't come away from Las...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Antonio Esfandiari

  December 26, 2008,

  As Antonio Esfandiari acquired a massive stack early in the 2008 EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo, a buzz started traveling through the room. With a win in this event, Esfandiari would become only the second player in history...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Michael Binger

  December 19, 2008,

  Earning nearly $6 million in tournament poker in only two years doesn't take a rocket scientist — but when it comes to Michael Binger, it does take a theoretical physicist. A scant two months before his third-place finish in...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Robert Mizrachi

  December 12, 2008,

  Before Michael 'The Grinder' Mizrachi or his twin Eric ever learned what a flop was, their older brother Robert was racking up some impressive tournament results. Chris Moneymaker was still a Tennessee accountant...

   

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