Poker Players |
The list below is a list of some of the greatest poker players throughout time. Below are listed a small biography of each of the previous winners of the World Series of Poker (WSOP). The WSOP has developed from a small tournament into a major million dollar poker tournament with thousands of entrants. Most of the previous winners are poker professionals but a few are just amateurs who were lucky enough to take home the prize.
1. Berry Johnston - WSOP Winner
Updated 2008 You could not possibly associate the words quiet or unassuming with a World Series of Poker winner, especially not with a player of the calibre of Berry Johnston. Intere...
2. Bill Smith - WSOP Winner
There are a few people who claim to have a better mind when they are under the influence of alcohol rather than when they are sober. Bill Smith, a World Series of Poker champion is one of those peopl...
3. Brad Daugherty - professional poker player
Updated 2008/2009 The name Brad Daugherty may bring to mind only the famed basketball player of the Cleveland Cavaliers. But there is another star of the same name who holds his own ...
4. Carlos Mortensen - WSOP Winner
Updated 2008/2009 Carlos Mortensen, though known for his loose play and regarded a bluffer, his record shows that he isn\'t easy to beat. He won the WSOP in 2001 and also the World P...
5. Chris Ferguson - WSOP Winner
Updated 2008/2009 It may come as a surprise to most that Chris Ferguson, who looks like a typical Poker player is actually a PhD holder from UCLA. The computer genius comes from a fa...
6. Chris Moneymaker
Updated 2008/2009 Chris Moneymaker has had an amazing rise in the poker world to win the World Series of Poker Championship in 2003. He was working as an accountant with a master\\\'...
7. Dan Harrington - WSOP Winner
Updated 2008/2009 Dan Harrington is often known as “Action Dan”. He sports a green Boston Red Sox cap and is known to be a crafty, tight player, employing starting hand standards tha...
8. Greg Raymer
Updated 2008/2009 Greg Raymer is pretty much underestimated due to his diminutive nature. He would look more like a person who enjoys life at a slow pace. Raymer himself did not play...
9. Hal Fowler - WSOP Winner
Updated 2008/2009 The funny thing about poker is that, almost anyone can walk in and win. Hal fowler was one of those ‘anyone’. Though relatively unknown Fowler walked in and won the...
10. Hamid Dastmalchi
Updated 2008/2009 Hamid Dastmalchi is a relatively unknown poker player in the circuit and his name is generally mentioned for one thing- His 1992 World Series of Poker win and the 1...
11. Huck Seed - WSOP Winner
Updated 2008/2009 One of the most mysterious personalities amongst famous poker professionals today is Huck Seed. Not much information is available about this Poker player. Whatever ...
12. Jack Keller - WSOP Winner
Updated 2008/2009 Jack Keller was always known on the poker tables as The Murderous Player. This aggressive player won the 1984 WSOP bracelet in the main event and another in Seven C...
13. Jack Strauss - WSOP Winner
Updated 2008/2009 Bluffing is an art and when we thinking of bluffing in Poker, we think of Jack “Treetop” Strauss. He was 6’6’ and he played college basketball at Texas A&M. Jack wa...
14. James Woods
Updated 2008/2009 James Woods has always been a popular and highly distinguished actor of Hollywood. Loved not only by the people even his competitors speak highly of him. He has bee...
15. Jim Bechtel - WSOP Winner
Updated 2008/2009 Though there is not much information available about the great Poker Player Jim Bechtel, he has earned a good name in the history of the game. He was born in 1952 a...
16. Johnny Chan WSOP Winner
Updated 2008/2009 Doyle Brunson is the only personality who can be compared with Johnny Chan as far as WSOP titles are concerned. Both of them have 10 WSOP titles to their credit. He...
17. Joseph Hachem
Updated 2008/2009 The story of Joseph Hachem winning the 2005 World Series of Poker championship is historical. He was born in Lebanon in 1966 and later on moved on to Australia in 1...
18. Mansour Matloubi - WSOP Winner
Updated 2008/2009 This 1990 WSOP winner was never very active in North American events and always preferred to play in Europe. His victory at the main event in 1990 is always remembe...
19. Noel Furlong - WSOP Winner
Updated 2008/2009 Noel Furlong is more of a business man than a poker player. His original name is J.J. Furlong, born in 1937 in Dublin, Ireland. He operates a 100 million dollar a y...
20. Robert Varkonyj
Updated 2008/2009 Robert Varkonyj won the 2002 World Series of Poker as an amateur entrant. His victory was a surprise to just about everyone, especially Phil Hellmuth, a commentato...
21. Russ Hamilton- WSOP Winner
Updated 2008/2009 It’s been a long time that Russ Hamilton has been playing the game of Poker. He started playing the game when he was 7 years of age. But he started taking the game ...
22. Scott Nguyen
Updated 2008/2009 Scotty Nguyen has always proved that he was born to play the game of Poker. He was born on October 28, 1962 in Vietnam with a defect due to which his hand was curle...
23. Stu Ungar - WSOP Winner
Updated 2008/2009 Stu Ungar was one of the world’s best poker players. He played the game since he was a child. Children with an IQ like Stu make the news quite often. He got a docto...
24. Vince Van Patten
Updated 2008/2009 Vince Van happens to be a multi dimensional personality. Apart from being a Hollywood actor he has also been a winner of some of the biggest poker games and tournam...