Shane Warne was born 13 September 1969 and is a former international Australian cricketer who is widely regarded as one of the finest leg spin bowlers in the history of cricket. In 2000, he was selected by a panel of cricket experts as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century, the only bowler […]
Month: November 2018
Jennifer Tilly
Jennifer Tilly was born September 16, 1958 and is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and a World Series of Poker bracelet winner. Jennifer was born, Jennifer Chan in Harbor City, Los Angeles, California. Tilly began her acting career in her teenage years through a theatre program at Stephens College in Missouri. Tilly had small roles […]
Toby Maguire
Tobias Maguire was born June 27, 1975 and is an American actor. He began his career in the 1990s, and has since become best known for his role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the Spider-Man films. Toby was born in Santa Monica, California to parents Vincent and Wendy Maguire. During his childhood, Maguire entertained the idea […]
Kimberly Lansing
Kimberly Lansing was a hostess for the World Poker Tour. Kimberly Lansing is the fun & stunningly beautiful online hostess of the World Poker Tour. She also works as a freelance journalist most notably appearing in InStyle and People magazines and interviewing stars on the Hollywood red carpet. Kimberly learnt to play poker in Palm […]
Layla Kayleigh
Layla Kayleigh was born January 26, 1984 and is a British TV personality who currently hosts The Feed segment of G4’s Attack of the Show!. She has modeled for Maxim Magazine and King Magazine. She can be heard on Maxim Radio as an additional personality every Tuesday on The Stretch Show. Kayleigh currently resides in […]
Gabe Kaplan
Gabriel “Gabe” Kaplan was born March 31, 1945 and is an American actor, comedian and professional poker player. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for his role as Gabe Kotter in the 1970s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter but has become more visible in recent years in relation to the popularity […]
Shannon Elizabeth
Shannon Elizabeth was born September 7, 1973 and is an American actress, poker player and former fashion model. Elizabeth came to prominence in the 1999 comedy film American Pie. Elizabeth, who describes poker as her “second career” has been called “one of the leading celebrity poker players.” She visits Las Vegas up to three times […]
Boris Becker
Boris Becker was born November 22, 1967 and is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Germany. He is a six-time Grand Slam singles champion, an Olympic gold medalist, and the youngest-ever winner of the men’s singles title at Wimbledon at the age of 17. Since he retired from the professional tour, media […]
Ben Affleck & Poker
Ben Affleck was born on August 15th 1972, he is a world famous celebrity after starring in many films. He originally started acting in 1992, his first part was in School Ties which also featured Matt Damon. When most people think about celebrities playing poker, they usually think of the show Celebrity Poker Showdown or […]
Asia Pacific Poker Tour
The Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) started in 2007 and like its counterpart the European Poker Tour, it was sponsored by PokerStars. The APPT rank for 13 seasons The first season ran from August to December 2007 with five events held across four locations: Manila (Philippines); Seoul (South Korea); Macau (China); and Sydney (Australia). The […]
European Poker Tour
After starting in 2004, with seven Texas Hold’em No Limit poker tournaments broadcast on television across Europe, the EPT grew to become Europe’s richest and most popular poker tournament series. […]
World Poker Tour
The World Poker Tour is a collection of Texas hold ’em poker tournaments held internationally, but mainly in the United States. […]
WSOP Europe
The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) is the first expansion effort of World Series of Poker-branded poker tournaments outside of the United States. […]
World Series of Poker History & WSOP Winners
The main event of the WSOP is a $10,000 buy-in no-limit Texas Holdem tournament, first played at Binions Horseshoe casino in Las Vegas downtown, with Johnny Moss winning the inaugural event in 1970. […]
Jerry Yang – WSOP Main Event Winner 2007
Jerry Yang called himself a ‘true rookie’ before winning the 2007 World Series of Poker main event. A virtual unknown before the event, he equalled Jamie Gold’s record of eliminating 7 of the 8 other players at the final table in a very agressive performance, calling virtually every all in against him. After entering the […]
David Williams
David Williams started his card game domination as a youngster playing ‘Magic The Gathering’, a strategy card game that also involves tournament play. After being accepted to both Harvard and Princeton, Williams studied economics and math before giving online poker a try. David Williams began playing poker online in the Bodog Poker Room, where he […]
Robert Varkonyi – 2002 WSOP Main Event Champion
Robert was born in 1961 in New York. Both of his parents are Hungarian immigrants who fled their homeland in 1956 after a communist regime was instilled. After a daring escape, they met in New York and wed. Robert graduated from MIT with one degree in computer science and another in management. He spent 15 […]
Stu “The Kid” Ungar
Stu was born in New York City and raised on the city’s Lower East Side, an incredible gin rummy player. At age 10 in ’63, he won his first gin rummy tournament. At age 14, he was regularly playing and beating the best players in New York. At 15 he dropped out of school when […]
Dewey Tomko
Dewey grew up in Glassport, Pa., a hamlet 15 miles outside Pittsburgh. As a child he played pinochle with his parents, but not poker. Later he learned that one of his grandfathers had been a professional gambler. Around age 8, he began playing blackjack for bottles against other neighborhood kids, and as a teen he […]
Bill Smith
Bill was a great no-limit poker player, a dangerous player, and it seemed like he never worried about anything, including whether or not he had any money. He featured on 3 final tables at the WSOP Main Event, winning the World Championship in 1985 and coming 5th in both 1981 and 1986. If he hadn’t […]
