Biography Yiannis Liperis is a Cypriot poker player with over $2 million in career earnings. He is number one on the Cypriot All Time Money List. The largest cash of his career came in 2019, finished 13th in the PokerStars Players Championship for $261,750. In 2022, he finished fourth in the $5,300 Luxon Pay Mediterranean Poker Party Main Event for $230,000. A regular on the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, Liperis won GUKPT Blackpool in 2018 and has four other top-four finishes (2nd - Blackpool 2015 & Luton 2018, 3rd - Manchester 2021, 4th - Walsall 2017)

Biography Alexandre Reard is a French poker player and Unibet Poker Ambassador. His also a World Series of Poker bracelet-winner. In 2021, he won Event #47: $5,000 Freezeout NLH, defeating Daniel Strelitz heads-up to take home $428,694. “When I saw the river card, it was just an indescribable feeling,” Reard said after the victory. “I was seeing my wife and all my friends crying and exulting on the rail. It’s such a sincere and strong moment!

Biography Mike Watson is a Canadian poker player and two-time European Poker Tour (EPT) champion with over $20 million in live tournament earnings. “SirWatts” won his maiden EPT Main Event title in 2016 by taking down the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event for $728,325. Seven years later, Watson won the 2023 EPT Monte Carlo Main Event for $825,731 to become just the third player in poker history to earn live EPT Main Event titles.

Biography Erik Seidel is one of the winningest and best known players in poker history. He is the remaining member of poker’s old generation, but is still able to compete in the modern field collecting poker’s major titles and trophies. Intro Erik Seidel is one of the most recognized faces in poker. With more than $40 million in career winnings, nine World Series of Poker bracelets and one World Poker Tour title, numerous money finishes in all of the world’s major poker tournaments and a place in the Poker Hall of Fame, Seidel is nothing but one of poker’s living legends.

Biography Brian Altman is an American poker player. He is a three-time World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event champion. He has also won three WSOP Circuit rings, most recently in February 2022. In June 2022, he won his first WSOP bracelet in the $400 NLHE Online Event for $110,662. Altman started playing poker in high school after watching Chris Moneymaker win the WSOP Main Event. His first WPT title came in 2015 winning the Lucky Hearts Poker Open for $723,000.

Biography Josh Arieh is an American poker player and five-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner. He can be seen on the first season of GGPoker’sGame of Gold, a poker reality competition on the GGPoker YouTube channel. In 2021, he won the WSOP Player of the Year title after cashing eleven times and winning two bracelets for combined cashes of over $1.1 million. Poker Achievements Arieh’s first recorded cash was a bracelet at the 1999 World Series of Poker, winning a $3,000 Limit Hold’em event for $202,800.

Biography Maria Lampropulos is an Argentinian poker player. During her career she has amassed over $3.4 million in tournament winnings, including partypoker MILLIONS and PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) titles. During her career, she has also won titles in Chile, Austria, Uruguay and Spain and is currently 11th on the Women’s All Time Money List. In 2016, she was defeated heads-up by her own boyfriend in the Eureka Poker Tour Rozvadov Main Event.

PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #87: $2,500 Mixed Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better 3rd $94,681 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #58: $3,000 Limit Hold’em (6-Handed) 3rd $72,681 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #52: $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw 1st $181,978 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #44: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 201st $5,253 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #37: $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em 144th $4,346 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship 6th $62,255 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #5: $400 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Max 79th $1,853 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #5: $1,500 Dealer’s Choice (6-Handed) 11th $7,842 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #1: $333 No-Limit Hold’em Triple Treys Summer Tip Off 32nd $1,904 The Return - A Borgata Championship Event$2,100 Bounty Event 46th $1,940 2022 MSPT Venetian November$1,600 Main Event 4th $75,017 2022 MSPT Venetian November$1,100 Main Event 48th $2,450 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #46: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 55th $11,991 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #26: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship 10th $18,506 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #13: $1,500 Limit Hold’em 8th $13,789 2022 World Series of PokerOnline No-Limit Hold’em BIG $500 104th $1,118 2022 World Series of PokerOnline $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Freezeout 21st $8,720 2022 The Lodge Championship SeriesEvent #15: $1,000 NLH Turbo 2nd $19,478 2021 MSPT South Dakota State Poker Championship$1,100 Main Event 16th $5,675 MSPT Riverside CasinoMSPT Riverside $1,100 Main Event 6th $31,716 2021 Wynn Spring ClassicWynn Spring Classic $1M GTD Championship 50th $9,067 2020 Mid-States Poker Tour Venetian $1,100 Main EventMSPT Venetian $1,100 Main Event 13th $10,566 2020 WSOP.

PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2024 PokerStars EPT Paris2,200 FPS High Roller 105th €5,860 2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus$1,100 Eureka Main Event 10th $25,750 2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus$2,200 Eureka High Roller 66th $6,725 2023 PokerStars EPT Barcelona1,100 Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event 228th €5,330 2023 PokerStars EPT Paris1,100 FPS Paris Main Event 130th €3,000 2022 Triton Poker CyprusEvent #2: $100,000 NLH 8-Handed 2nd $1,390,000 2021 PokerStars EPT Prague5,300 EPT Main Event 67th €14,720 2021 World Series of Poker EuropeEvent #10: 25,000 NLH Platinum High Roller 10th €43,090 PokerStars WCOOP 2021WCOOP-42-H: $5,200 NLHE 8-Max, $700K Gtd 4th $68,166 2021 WPT World Online ChampionshipsEvent #2: $2,100 Omaha Championship 10th $7,543 2020 Irish Open OnlineEvent #6: 50,000 GTD The Hendon Mob Championship 34th €663 2019 PokerStars EPT Prague5,300 EPT Main Event 73rd €12,150 2019 WSOP International Circuit Holland Casino Rotterdam2nd €37,121 2019 World Series of PokerEvent #73: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT - World Championship 894th $17,135 2018 partypoker LIVE UK Poker ChampionshipsMain Event 55th £4,750 2017 Unibet Open BucharestMain Event 11th €7,405 2017 Master Classics of PokerMain Event 38th €8,577

Biography Originally from Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Jonathan Jaffe has more than $5.6 million in lifetime earnings as of summer 2022 according to The Hendon Mob. That includes a career-best $670,636 for finishing runner-up to Jonathan Little in the 2008 World Poker Tour (WPT) World Poker Finals at Foxwoods. Jaffe, who once pranked ESPN by claiming to be a dolphin trainer on a World Series of Poker (WSOP) broadcast, also won the 2022 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open $25,500 High Roller for $574,085, and in January 2018 took second in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) $25,000 High Roller for $569,760.

Biography Dario Sammartino is an Italian poker player best known for finishing runner-up in the 2019 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Prior to his deep run, the the native of Naples, Italy had built up career earnings of over $8 million as well as winning the inaugural Global Poker Masters with Italy. In 2019, he cashed seven times and reached two final tables: a third-place finish in the $10,000 H.

Biography “This is beyond fairy tale. Its inconceivable!” Norman Chad Chris Moneymaker is an American poker player who won the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event. He was the first Main Event winner to qualify through online poker. His victory, coupled with the rise in popularity of televised poker, gave rise to the early 2000s poker boom. This is sometimes dubbed ‘The Moneymaker Effect’. In 2019, Moneymaker was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.

Biography Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott was a British poker player. During his career, he won both a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet and a World Poker Tour title. He died in 2015 and was posthumously inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2017. Biography Ulliott was born in 1954 in Kingston upon Hull. He left school at 15 and became involved in organized crime. During his 20s, Ulliott served a number of spells in prison for various crimes including insurance fraud, armed robbery and affray.

Biography Fintan Hand is an Irish poker player, Twitch streamer and PokerStars Ambassador. He plays online under the username “EasyWithAces” He joined PokerStars Team Online in 2017. Five Tips to Become a Successful Online Poker Twitch Streamer Live Poker Achievements Hand is a well-known figure on the United Kingdom and Ireland live poker circuit and has amassed just shy of $55,000 in live tournament winnings. The largest cash of his career came in in the 2017 Irish Open in Dublin for 19,445 while sporting a shamrock emblazoned suit.

Biography Allyn Shulman is an American poker player and World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner from California with more than $1.6 million in live tournament earnings. Shulman earned her bracelet by taking down the 2013 $1,000 NLH Seniors Championship for $603,713. The next month, the Laguna Niguel, California resident won Deepstack Extravaganza $5,500 NLH for $293,966. In 2016, Shulman made another deep run in the Deepstack Extravaganza $3,500 NLH and wound up finishing in fifth place for $60,000.

Biography Hristivoje “ALLinPav” Pavlovic is a GGPoker Twitch squad member. With plenty of experience, Pavlovic is a former partypoker Team Pro and streams regularly on his Twitch channel. Sign up to GGPoker Don’t have an account with GGPoker yet? Don’t worry! Sign up through PokerNews and you will receive a welcome bonus worth up to $600. Your first deposit is matched 100% up to a maximum of $600! The bonus releases into your account in $10 increments each time you earn 6,000 Fish Buffet Points, which is the equivalent of $60 in rake or tournament fees.

Biography Timothy Adams is a Canadian professional poker player hailing from Burlington, Ontario. Adams focuses primarily on poker tournaments and currently occupies second place in the Canadian all-time money list, trailing only the legendary Daniel Negreanu. Adams is the model professional poker player who goes about his business in a quiet yet deadly efficient manner. He began his poker tournament career playing low-stakes tournaments and his continued success allowed him to build a bankroll and climb up the game’s stakes.

Biography Farid Jattin is a Colombian poker player with over $7 million in career earnings. The largest cash of his career came in 2019, when he finished seventh in the inaugural PSPC Players Championship in the Bahamas for $746,000. However, Jattin has an impressive resume with numerous high-profile tournament victories including the 2019 Potomac Poker Open Main Event In 2020, he won the $25,000 Challenge at the Aussie Millions, chopping heads-up with his poker coach George Wolff.

Biography Eric Drache is an American former cardroom manager and tournament director who was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2012. Drache served as tournament director for the WSOP from 1973 to 1988, developed the concept of satellites, helped establish the PHoF, and has served as cardroom manager for Mirage and the Golden Nugget. Im not only surprised and honored to have been selected, Im also a bit embarrassed considering the other nominees, Drache said of his selection.

Biography Santhosh Suvarna is a successful businessman with a penchant for high-stakes poker tournaments. Suvarna has amassed over $7 million in live cashes, with most of that impressive sum coming from events played from 2022 onwards. Suvarna lives in Bangalore, India, and his first four live results were from tournaments hosted in his native India. The largest score was the equivalent of $8,839 back in 2020. However, since 2022, Suvarna has become a familiar face in the world’s biggest buy-in events worldwide.

Biography Juan Pardo is a Spanish poker player with over $4.5 million in career earnings. Pardo is no stranger to success at the poker tables, winning numerous high roller titles over the course of his career including two Single-Day High Roller in the space of 12 hours at EPT Barcelona in 2019, the second of which being the largest cash of his career for 1,013,860. Five Spanish Poker Players to Watch in 2022

Biography Kristen Bicknell is a Canadian poker player and former partypoker Ambassador. She has cashed for over $5.3 million during her career. She was the GPI Female Player of the Year for three years in a row (2017-19). Bicknell at the WSOP Bicknell is a four-time WSOP bracelet winner, having won the 2013 WSOP Ladies Event for $173,922 and the 2016 $1,500 Bounty Event for $290,768. Read More: Two-time Champion Kristen Bicknell Reminisces on her WSOP Memories

PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #62: $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha 159th $3,328 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #50: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship 2nd $809,167 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #73: $1,500 Razz 49th $2,639 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #68: $1,000 Million Dollar Bounty 758th $2,070 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #39: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed 51st $6,909 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #33: $3,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 125th $6,004 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #51: $3,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 50th $8,153 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #45: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship 7th $93,406 2021 WSOP.

Biography John Hennigan is an American poker player and six-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2018. Biography Born on August 10, 1970, Hennigan learned to play pool at a young age, traveling to play on the pool circuit. A big gambler, Hennigan gained the nickname “Johnny World” due to his willingness to gamble on anything in the world. Gambling on pool would lead him to poker, with his first recorded cash coming in 1997.