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: Patrik Antonius

  September 26, 2008,

  Don't hate him because he's beautiful. And wealthy. And multi-talented. When Patrik Antonius walks into a poker room the ladies swoon and the men clench their jaws, suck in their stomachs, and wonder what it must be like...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Kenny Tran

  September 19, 2008,

  Kenny Tran lives for the hero call. The kind of call that makes an opponent's jaw drop, scrambling his brain as he wonders how this guy could have done it. Ace high, king high, queen high? There was even his now-famous jack-high call...

   

• PokerNews WSOP 'November Nine' Focus: Dennis Phillips

  September 17, 2008,

  As the oldest member of the celebrated 'November Nine,' the nine finalists in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event who will return this November to battle for the title, it's a bit surprising to learn that Dennis Phillips has only...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Vanessa Selbst

  September 12, 2008,

  If there was one final table that stood out from the pack at this summer's World Series of Poker, it was the one that concluded in Vanessa Selbst's first bracelet. Though Daniel Negreanu was closing in on his fourth on the ESPN Main Stage...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Tom Dwan

  September 05, 2008,

  'How did you come up with the name 'durrrr'?' is almost always the first question asked of 22-year-old poker professional Tom Dwan. He'll tell you that he wanted to select a screen name that sounded so ridiculous, so inane that it would...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: John Phan

  August 29, 2008,

  His friends call him 'The Razor' — not only for his tendency to raise every pot he's in or his affinity for the sleek Motorola cell phone, but for his uncanny instincts for reading weakness in his opponents. To the uninitiated, John Phan...

   

• Opinion: Michael Phelps - So, The Golden Boy Plays Poker

  August 27, 2008,

  It's been a long time since I felt like the Olympics were a big deal to us Americans. Maybe the last Olympics that felt this 'present' in American culture was 1976. Bruce Jenner was winning decathlon Gold, Nadia Comeneci was cute as a button...

   

• The Other Side of the Felt #13 – Thoughts on Scotty Nguyen's HORSE Final Table

  August 24, 2008,

  I received a barrage of emails and phone calls about the recently televised ESPN $50,000 H.O.R.S.E Tournament in which there was a lot of controversy over the actions of Scotty Nguyen and the reactions of....

   

• Hoyt Corkins Las Vegas Home Robbed

  August 23, 2008,

  Top poker player and two time WSOP bracelet winner Hoyt Corkins' Las Vegas home was broken into, and many of the veteran player's prize possessions were taken. Corkins, who is currently vacationing...

   

• Mike and Karen Sexton Welcome Ty Sexton Into the World

  August 23, 2008,

  We here at PokerNews.com just barely got outbid by People magazine for those Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie baby pictures. So, it is with great pride that we present to you the very first pictures of Mike and Karen Sexton's....

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Max Pescatori

  August 22, 2008,

  It was national pride that gave him the nickname. Max Pescatori was tired of people not realizing he was Italian, so one day he decided to wrap his head in a bandana bearing the red, white and green of his home country's flag. Almost instantly...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: David Benyamine

  August 15, 2008,

  David Benyamine is one of those rare individuals who, perhaps by sheer will and drive, have found success in every professional endeavor he's attempted. Born in Paris, Benyamine was a highly ranked tennis player in his youth. Though he was...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Anna Wroblewski

  August 08, 2008,

  Anna Wroblewski doesn't know when her birthday is. Not the month, the day or the year, though she estimates she's about 22 years old. Orphaned at age four in her native Vietnam, Wroblewski and her younger sister lived with a slew...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Nenad Medic

  August 01, 2008,

  Often the most intimidating player at the table in terms of sheer size, 6'5 Nenad Medic has, in only three short years, climbed the ranks from low-limit online player to a competitor among poker's elite. One of a talented few who have...

   

• The PokerNews Profile: Michael DeMichele

  July 25, 2008,

  If there's an image out there of today's young poker professionals — brash, cocky, aggressive to a fault — Michael DeMichele turns that notion on its ear. Clad in sweater-vests and neatly pressed button-down shirts, the...

   

• Women's Poker Spotlight: Who to Watch in the WSOP Main Event

  July 03, 2008,

  This year more women have streamed into the events at the 2008 World Series of Poker than in any previous year. Many would attribute this to the ever-growing popularity poker has received through television, while others would credit...

   

• Three-time WSOP Bracelet Winner John Bonetti Passes

  June 28, 2008,

  Three-time WSOP bracelet winner John Bonetti died of cancer on Saturday, June 28th in his hometown of Houston, Texas. Bonetti won his first WSOP bracelet in the 1990 No Limit Deuce to Seven Lowball event at a final table that included...

   

• Women's Poker Spotlight: Barbara Enright, Poker Icon

  June 05, 2008,

  There's probably not much I can say about Barbara Enright that hasn't been said many times before over the last 25 years. I just can't let the 2008 WSOP begin without profiling one of the most influential women in the history...

   

• Women's Poker Spotlight: Kathy Liebert – Road to the 2008 WSOP

  May 29, 2008,

  Everyone knows who Kathy Liebert is when she walks into the poker room. Kathy boasts lifetime tournament earnings well over $4.4 million, the career leader among women by a wide margin. To date, no other woman is within...

   

• The Moneymaker Effect: Five Years Later

  May 23, 2008,

  Where were you five years ago today? I would love to tell you that I was in Benny's Bullpen, soaking up what would become a watershed moment in the history of poker's development. But, alas, I was sick. So, I was sleeping...

   

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