Category Archives: Player Profiles

Joe Hachem, Poker Biography

Joe Hachem, a native of Lebanon moved to Australia with his family in 1972.  He was working as a chiropractor but due to a blood disorder, he gave up his career and started playing poker. He lives with his wife Jeanie Hachem and has four children, Anthony, Justine, Daniel and James.

Martin de Knijff, The Dutch father

Martin de Knijff was born on 2nd October, 1972 and a native of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is a professional sports bettor mainly on soccer and his style is high-stakes in poker playing. He gets his last name from his Dutch father. His mother is a Swedish. His nickname is The Knife. When Martin was 5, [...]

Patrick Bruel, the poker singer

Patrick Bruel was born on May 14, 1959 in Tlemcen, Algeria. He dreamt of becoming a football player in his teens but he made up his mind to become a singer after seeing Michel Sardou in the year 1975. He became an actor and performed in Le Coup de sirocco in 1979.

Tony G, “Antanas Guoga”

Antanas Guoga, one of the giant poker players was born on 17, December 1973in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR. He is more generally called as Tony G. He was a title holder of Rubik’s Cube in Lithuania at a very young age. At the age of 11, he shifted to Melbourne, Australia. He started playing [...]

Kathy Liebert, The PokerKat

PokerKat is her nickname, Kathy Liebert is her name. Kathy H. Liebert was born on October 1, 1967 in her hometown – Nashville, Tennessee. An inductee into the Poker Hall of Fame, Kathy, in a bid to prove herself as a force in gambling became the first woman ever to claim the most coveted prize [...]

Ted Forrest, the Professor Backwards

Ted Forrest, an accomplished American professional in poker games, has so much about him to write. From winning 3 bracelets at the 1993 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Tournaments to winning 2 bracelets in the World Series of Poker tournament of 2004 to winning a title at the Professional Poker Tour

Annie Duke - Annie Legend

Annie Duke, ex-wife to Ben Duke, was born in New Hampshire’s Concord into a family of gamblers. She attended Columbia University where she bagged double honors in Psychology and English. There after, Duke enrolled into the University of Pennsylvania for her doctorate where she met her husband Ben Duke, whom she later settled down with. [...]

Erik Seidel, Poker player

Erik Seidel, an American professional poker player, was born and bread in New York. Erik’s love for poker grew while playing backgammon, which he enjoyed for eight years. He decided to move from the backgammon circuit into playing the stock market after his eight successful career winning years in backgammon and then…
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Mike Caro - Mad Genius

Mike Caro In 1978 contributed to the 50 statistical tables for Doyle Brunson’s System and script that bestseller’s unit on draw whip. He acts as a expert for many casinos, giving odds, and he helped develop the Poker Probe, the first serious commercial sofware for analyzing poker tactics. He is the founder of the Mike Caro University of [...]

Doyle Brunson

Doyle Brunson is the back to back champion of the first two world series of poker. Born in Texas in 1933, Brunson was always competitive as he was drafted to the Minneapolis, now the Los Angeles, Lakers. Although a knee injury ended his basketball career the NBA would not be the way Doyle would provide [...]