BEST POKER PLAYERS
Jamie Gold
- Name: Jamie Gold
- Location: Malibu, CA, United States
- First Place Finishes: 2
- Total Winnings: $12,161,719
- Cashes: 15
- WSOP Bracelets: 1
- Favorite Poker Game: Texas Hold'em
- Hobbies: Live music, producing television and great food
Jamie Gold, a professional poker player who belongs Malibu, California, is one of the biggest stars in the world of poker.
Jamie Gold winnings after his WSOP championship - in which he took the pot in the 2006 tournament - totaled over twelve million, bringing him national acclaim as the biggest poker winner in poker history.
Jamie Gold is famous for his cool approach toward betting loads of cash, with this aggressive playing style being counteracted by a calm countenance.
While most players play the game with a constant face of steel, Jamie Gold is alive and active, calm and composed during the entirety of the game.
Joe Hachem
- Name: Joe Hachem
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- First Place Finishes: 2
- Total Winnings: $10,561,131
- Cashes: 32
- WSOP Bracelets: 1
- ProRank 1 Position: 486
- ProRank 2 Position: 7950
- Started Playing Poker: 10 years
- Favorite Poker Game: Texas Hold'em
- Hobbies: Golf
Joe Hachem who now lives with his family in Melbourne, Australia originated from The Lebanon.
Joe Hachem mainly played online poker and did occasionally go to The crown poker Casino in Melbourne, but whether it was decided he was officially a professional poker player and taxed accordingly remains unknown.
Daniel Negreanu
- Name: Daniel Negreanu AKA "Kid Poker"
- Location: Las Vegas, NV, United States
- Age: 34
- ProRank 1 Position: 83
- Cashes: 112
- First Place Finishes: 24
- Total Winnings: $10,478,479
- WSOP Bracelets: 4
- Started Playing Poker: At the age of 15
- Favorite Poker Game: NL Omaha 8
- Hobbies: Golf, Fantasy Hockey Leagues, Movies, ping pong
A resident of Toronto, Daniel Negreanu familiar early on in his life he had a knack for gambling and, more specifically, poker.
With two first place finishes at the 1997 World Poker Finals at Foxwoods, Daniel took the world of tournament poker by storm and never looked back.
So confident was he that at the age of 21 Daniel dropped out of college - just one credit shy of graduation - and moved to Las Vegas to pursue poker full-time.
He has since added three World Series of Poker bracelets, two World Poker Tour titles, and more than thirty victories in tournaments across the globe. (How To Play Poker)
WSOP MILLIONAIRES
Peter Eastgate
- Name: Peter Eastgate
- Location: Odense, Denmark
- First Place Finishes: 1
- Cashes: 4
- Total Winnings: $9,227,987
- WSOP Bracelets: 1
- ProRank 1 Position: 23
Peter Eastgate is a 22-year old professional poker players from Odense, Denmark, and a winner of the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event in 2008.
By winning the Main Event, he became the youngest ever WSOP Main Event champion surpassing Phil Hellmuth who was 24 at the time of his victory.
Eastgate's prior results include a money finish in the 2008 European Poker Tournament event in Copenhagen and a final table finishes at the 2007 Irish Open.
Jerry Yang
- Name: Jerry Yang AKA "The Shadow"
- Location: Temecula, CA, United States
- Age: 41
- First Place Finishes: 1
- Cashes: 2
- Total Winnings: $8,251,324
- WSOP Bracelets: 1
- Favorite Poker Game: No Limit Holdem
The 2007 WSOP Champion, Jerry Yang is a 39-year-old psychologist and social worker from southern California.
Yang started playing poker only two years ago. He won a seat into the WSOP 2007 main event of the via a satellite held at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula, CA.
He holds a Masters Degree in health psychology. Nationality: Hmong. Yang was born in Laos. He is married and has six children.
Allen Cunningham
- Name: Allen Cunningham
- Location: Las Vegas, NV, United States
- Age: 31
- First Place Finishes: 16
- Cashes: 119
- Total Winnings: $9,776,274
- WSOP Bracelets: 5
- ProRank 1 Position: 86
Cunningham is a 30-year-old professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada. He is easily the most accomplished poker player of today’s final nine of the WSOP 2006 main event. (Internet Poker Report)
Allen Cunningham started playing poker seriously while working towards a civil engineering degree at UCLA.
He has won five WSOP gold bracelets – for Seven-Card Stud in 2001, Deuce-to-Seven Lowball in 2002, No-Limit Hold’em in 2005, another No-Limit Hold’em championship in 2006 and in a Pot Limit Texas Hold'em poker in 2007.
With his new-found success Allen decided not to pursue his degree and dropped out of UCLA to play poker professionally.
BEST WOMEN POKER
Kathy Liebert
- Name: Kathy Liebert
- Location: Las Vegas, NV, United States
- Age: 41
- First Place Finishes: 12
- Cashes: 167
- Total Winnings: $4,492,232
- WSOP Bracelets: 1
- Favorite Poker Game: No Limit Hold'em
Kathy Liebert is one of the all time most important female money winners in skilled poker.(Guide to Online Poker)
Kathy Liebert won the $1,500 Hold 'Em Shoot Event at the 2004 World Series of Poker, claiming an $110,180 paycheck and joining the elite World Series bracelet winners.
In addition Kathy Liebert’s two career highlights, she has been in the money at more than three dozen major international poker tournaments and has amassed more than $3 million tournament winnings in ten years of play.
Jennifer Harman Traniello
- Name: Jennifer Harman Traniello AKA "Jen"
- Location: Las Vegas, NV, United States
- Age: 43
- First Place Finishes: 3
- Cashes: 43
- Total Winnings: $2,009,863
- WSOP Bracelets: 2
- Favorite Poker Game: No Limit Hold 'em
Jennifer Harman was born in Reno NV. When she was just eight years old, she was playing poker for real money - and winning. (Play Poker Free)
In the mid-1980s, Harman turned pro and began her climb up the ladder from $50-100 limits to $100-200, then on to $400-800 and much higher.
Today, she plays in the very highest limit games in the world and is one of the game's most feared and respected foes.
Joanne Liu
- Name: Joanne "JJ" Liu
- Location: Las Vegas, NV, United States
- First Place Finishes: 5
- Cashes: 67
- Total Winnings: $1,619,384
- ProRank 1 Position: 1932
- Favorite Poker Game: NLH
Joanne "JJ" Liu made her first final table in a major poker tournament in a 1996 World Series of Poker limit hold'em event, the same year she started playing poker.
Since then she has accumulated almost $1 Million in prize money, placing in numerous major tournaments.
Most recently, Liu entered the final table of the Five-Diamond World Poker Classic, a World Poker Tour event, with the chip lead.
She finished fourth in that tournament for her largest payday ever, worth almost $400,000.