Stephen Song

Biography Stephen Song is an American poker player with over $5 million in career cashes and the 2022 GPI Player of the Year. He is World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner and well a three-time WSOP Circuit gold ring winner. In 2022, he was named Global Poker Index (GPI) Player of the Year and Mid-Major Player of the Year, which recognizes success in events with buy-ins up to $2,500.

Ben Heath

Biography Ben Heath is a British poker player and WSOP bracelet winner with over $19 million in career earnings. His bracelet victory came back in 2019, winning the $50,000 High Roller for $1.48 million. When I was younger, I was shy and didn’t really want to win the bracelet," he told PokerNews. “I would have rather just taken second place. But now that it has happened, it feels great!” In 2021, he narrowly missed out on a second bracelet after finishing second in the WSOP $250,000 Super High Roller to Adrian Mateos.

Benny Glaser

Biography Benny Glaser is a British poker player. Over the course of his career, he has won five World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and amassed over $7 million in live earnings. In 2022, he also finished second in the WPT World Championship at Wynn for $2.8 million. He has also won 24 SCOOP and WCOOP titles on PokerStars, and is widely renowned as one of the all-around best British poker players.

Parker Talbot

Biography Parker Talbot is best known in the poker world for his exploits online with more than $3.4 million in online tournament cashes. His popularity soared with his popular Twitch stream under the handle tonkaaaaP. He is a PokerStars Ambassador having joined in June 2016. Intro Born in Ontario, Canada, Talbot became interested in poker at a young age of 13 after watching the World Poker Tour on television with his parents.

Crandell Addington

Biography Crandell “Dandy” Addington is an American poker player and member of the Poker Hall of Fame. He was one of the inaugural players in the 1970 World Series of Poker, and holds the record for most final table appearances (seven). He finished second in the WSOP Main Event on two separate occasions (1974 & 1978). Nicknamed “Dandy” due to his outfits at the table, Doyle Brunson says that Addington stood out like he was some sort of movie star at the tables.

Boris Kolev

Biography Boris Kolev is a Bulgarian poker player and WSOP bracelet winner. He won his first WSOP bracelet at the 2021 WSOP in Event #88: $5,000 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em. He defeated a field of 531 players to win $511,184. This was the last WSOP bracelet awarded at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. Kolev has numerous six-figure cashes throughout his career, including the Wynn Winter Classic PKO Bounty for $131,548.

Espen Jorstad

Biography Espen Uhlen Jorstad is a Norwegian professional poker pro who resides in London, United Kingdom. In 2022, he won two WSOP bracelets including the 2022 WSOP Main Event for $10,000,000, becoming the first Norwegian to win poker’s biggest title. The former Unibet Poker Ambassador, also won Event #55: $1,000 Tag Team alongside Patrick Leonard for $148,067 and his first WSOP bracelet. Many will know Jorstad from his online poker grind, mostly on PokerStars where he is known as “Hymn2ninkasi” and GGPoker where he uses the alias “COVFEFE-19”.

Brock Wilson

Biography Brock Wilson is an American poker player with over $5m in career earnings. A regular on the PokerGO Tour, Wilson made a name for himself at the 2021 US Poker Open with two final-table finishes. Five American Poker Players to Watch in 2022 The largest cash of Wilson’s career came in 2019, finishing second in the MILLIONS World $25,000 Super High Roller for $619,536. PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2023 WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas$10,400 WPT World Championship 437th $19,300 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #94: 5,000 No-Limit Hold’em (8-Handed) 78th $10,074 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #92: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout 97th $2,522 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #86: $1,979 Poker Hall of Fame Bounty 176th $3,429 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #16: $600 Online Deepstack Championship 17th $7,222 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #12: $500 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack 6th $33,422 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #53: $1,500 Millionaire Maker 1080th $2,630 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #59: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout 13th $35,681 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #10: $400 No-Limit Ultra Deepstack 165th $1,148 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #39: $1,500 Monster Stack 423rd $4,725 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #8: $3,200 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller 48th $7,001 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #32: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em (6-Handed) 158th $4,800 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #16: $25,000 High Roller (8-Handed) 42nd $40,000 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #13: $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack 309th $1,202 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #2: $25,000 High Roller (6-Handed) 31st $40,000 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #15: $1,500 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 299th $2,625 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure$25,000 PCA High Roller 5th $261,700 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #86: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Championship 6th $117,819 2022 World Series of PokerOnline $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Bracelet Championship 144th $1,727 2022 World Series of PokerOnline $500 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo Deepstack 80th $1,493 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #37: $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER No-Limit Hold’em 372nd $5,165 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #34: $1,500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em 63rd $5,476 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #24: $1,000 FLIP & GO No-Limit Hold’em 62nd $3,250 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #16: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 13th $28,102 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #8: $25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed 25th $50,810 2022 Wynn Millions$10,000 Main Event $10,000,000 GTD 41st $48,665 2022 Wynn Millions$1,600 Mystery Bounty $1,500,000 GTD 200th $2,477 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #88: $5,000 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 42nd $11,113 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #81: $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack 223rd $1,400 2021 Wynn Fall Classic$1,600 Mystery Bounty 119th $4,258 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #67: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event World Championship 701st $17,500 2021 World Series of PokerWSOP.

Leo Margets

Biography Leo Margets is a Spanish poker player and WSOP bracelet winner. She is a Winamax ambassador. Having narrowly missed out in 2018 after finishing runner-up, Margets secured victory in Event #83: $1,500 The Closer in 2021 to win her first bracelet and $376,850. Leo Margets Wins First Bracelet and $376,850 in Event #83: $1,500 The Closer PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2024 PokerStars EPT Paris2,200 FPS High Roller 94th €6,750 2023 PokerStars EPT Prague5,300 EPT Main Event 46th €18,260 2023 Winamax Poker Open Bratislava500 Main Event 7th €12,300 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #68: $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty 135th $1,879 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #53: $1,500 Millionaire Maker 104th $10,749 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #49: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty 221st $1,881 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #42: $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack (8-Handed) 247th $1,977 2022 PokerStars EPT Prague3,000 EPT Mystery Bounty 42nd €4,730 2022 Winamax Poker Open Bratislava500 WPO Main Event 189th €1,200 2022 PokerStars EPT Barcelona5,300 EPT Main Event 120th €15,500 2022 PokerStars EPT Barcelona10,300 EPT High Roller 46th €21,900 2022 PokerStars EPT Barcelona1,100 Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event 128th €6,950 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #68: $1,000 Million Dollar Bounty 63rd $11,790 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #61: Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Championship 79th $2,398 2022 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo5,300 Main Event 155th €8,690 2022 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo1,100 FPS Main Event 157th €2,430 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #88: $5,000 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 43rd $11,113 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #83: $1,500 The Closer 1st $376,850 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #67: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event World Championship 452nd $26,700 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #77: $1,500 Fifty Stack No-Limit Hold’em 104th $3,194 2019 Winamax Poker Open DublinMain Event 140th €1,100 2019 PokerStars.

Andrew Moreno

Biography Andrew Moreno, the husband of former PokerNews hostess Kristy Moreno (former Kirsty Arnett), has been playing poker since the early 2000s. Originally from the Midwest where he worked at a factory running a steel-cutting machine, Moreno met his future wife after overhearing her talk about poker. In 2006, the duo moved to Las Vegas where he started grinding $1-$2 no-limit holdem cash games, working his way up to $25-$50 over the next decade.

Aleksejs Ponakovs

Biography Aleksejs Ponakovs is a Latvian poker player and WSOP bracelet winner. He won his first WSOP bracelet in 2021 in an online $7,777 buy-in event for $432,491. The following year, he defeated Phil Ivey heads-up to win the $100,000 Super High Roller for $1,897,363. His previous biggest cash came in Triton Madrid, finishing fourth in the Main Event for $938,391. PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2024 PokerStars EPT Paris5,300 EPT Main Event 3rd €574,850 2023 WSOP ParadiseEvent #3: $25,000 GGMillion$ High Rollers Championship 23rd $90,700 2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus$25,000 NL Hold’em V 1st $216,810 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #84: $50,000 High Roller 22nd $88,506 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #13: $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Championship 4th $150,144 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #35: $10,000 Secret Bounty 83rd $10,858 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #16: $25,000 High Roller (8-Handed) 10th $96,986 2023 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo5,300 EPT Main Event 143rd €9,850 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure$100,000 7-Handed 3rd $698,800 2022 PokerStars EPT Prague25,000 NL Hold’em II 3rd €117,050 2022 PokerStars EPT Barcelona25,000 Single-Day High Roller II 6th €148,170 2022 PokerStars EPT Barcelona50,000 Single-Day High Roller II 3rd €436,100 2022 PokerStars EPT Barcelona50,000 Single-Day High Roller I 6th €186,040 2022 PokerStars EPT Barcelona25,000 Single-Day High Roller I 9th €60,030 2022 World Series of PokerTournament of Champions 53rd $3,500 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #87: $5,000 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 45th $11,388 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #42: $100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em 1st $1,897,363 2021 World Series of PokerWSOP.

Fabrice Bigot

PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2024 PokerStars EPT Paris10,300 EPT High Roller 58th €17,950 2024 PokerStars EPT Paris3,000 Mystery Bounty 6th €60,690 2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus$5,300 EPT Main Event 36th $21,500 2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus$10,300 EPT High Roller 45th $19,200 2023 PokerStars EPT Barcelona10,300 EPT High Roller 51st €19,350 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #90: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Championship 8th $86,118 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #85: $1,500 Shootout 85th $5,759 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #65: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em (6-Handed) 30th $26,869 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #49: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty 10th $18,891 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #32: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em (6-Handed) 29th $19,382 2023 BetMGM Poker Championship$3,500 Main Event 18th $28,334 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #12: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout 24th $18,569 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #3: $1,000 Mystery Millions 664th $2,470 2023 PokerStars EPT Mnte Carlo2,200 FPS High Roller 149th €3,340 2023 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo1,100 FPS Main Event 291st €1,650 2023 PokerStars EPT Paris5,300 EPT Paris Main Event 3rd €535,850 2022 PokerStars EPT Prague5,300 EPT Prague Main Event 11th €74,950 2022 PokerStars EPT Prague1,100 Eureka Main Event 235th €3,010 2022 PokerStars EPT Prague2,200 Eureka High Roller 132nd €4,730 2022 PokerStars EPT London1,100 UKIPT Main Event 25th £5,700 2022 PokerStars EPT Barcelona3,000 Mystery Bounty Championship 159th €3,010 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #70: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event World Championship 248th $46,800 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #81: $5,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em 39th $16,295 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #75: $777 Lucky 7’s 81st $5,000 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #37: $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER No-Limit Hold’em 116th $8,701 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #21: $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold’em 545th $3,278 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #14: $1,500 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 93rd $4,401 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #67: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event World Championship 904th $15,000 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #57: $150 GGMasters WSOP Edition Freezeout, $1M GTD 98th $1,167

Ian Matakis

Biography Ian Matakis is a poker player from Minnesota and a WSOP gold bracelet winner that can be seen all over the country on mid-stakes tours and at big events like the WSOP and PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Matakis won his first bracelet during the 2023 WSOP Online series in the $500 No-Limit Hold’em Bankroll Builder tournament. He continuted to run hot in the opening stages of the 2023 WSOP with a run to fifth in the $600 Deepstack online and top finishes of 9th and 15th in the $1,500 and $3,000 6-Handed No-Limit tournaments, respectively, that put him in the hunt for 2023 Player of the Year.

Daniel Colman

Biography Daniel Colman burst onto the poker scene in 2014 with one of the best years in poker history winning an incredible $22,389,481. After 2017, Colman stepped away from poker publicly. His last cash, which came of December of that year, brought his lifetime tournament earnings to $28,925,058 (as of October 2022) according to the Hendon Mob. Background Born July 11, 1990, Colman hails from Holden, Massachusetts. He began playing online poker under the names “mrGR33N13” and “riyyc225” and has had tremendous success on the virtual felt, primarily at the high-limit hyper-turbo sit-and-gos.

Vivian Saliba

Biography Vivian Saliba is a Brazilian poker player and 888poker ambassador, having joined the site in November 2017. She first played live poker at 18 years of age when her father brought her to a poker club in Sao Paolo, Brazil. 888poker Ambassador Vivian Saliba’s New Passion for Poker Streaming World Series of Poker In 2017, Saliba at 24 years of age, played at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

Artur Martirosian

Biography Artur Martirosian is a Russian poker player and two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner. In 2021, he won the EPT Sochi Main Event for $325,316. In 2023, he final tabled the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event, finishing third for $677,400. The same year, Martirosian won two WSOP bracelets. The largest live cash of his career came in 2021, winning $1,400,000 after taking down SHRB Europe Event #6: $100,000 No-Limit Hold’em.

Maria Ho

Biography Maria Ho is a Chinese-American professional poker player and broadcaster. Ho has over $4.2 million in career earnings. She is a member of the Women in Poker Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 2018. She competed in the fifteenth season of The Amazing Race alongside fellow poker player Tiffany Michelle. Her poker resume includes six top-10 finishes in WSOP events, including a sixth-place finish in the 2017 WSOP Europe Main Event for 174,365.

Yulian Bogdanov

Biography Yulian Bogdanov is a Bulgarian poker player with more than $1.3 million in live earnings as of November 2023. In June 2023, Bogdanov took down the Wynn Summer Classic for $205,116. One year earlier, Bogdanov earned a career-best score of $440,000 from a third-place finish in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Venetian DeepStack Championship. Bogdanov came short of a bracelet in 2023 as he finished 9th in the WSOP Monster Stack for $113,597.

Kannapong Thanarattrakul

Biography Kannapong Thanarattrakul is a professional poker player hailing from Bangkok, Thailand, and a member of the Natural8 ambassador team. Thanarattrakul enjoyed several live poker tournament cashes between 2018-2022 but drew a blank in 2021 like many live poker grinders, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, upon his return to live tournaments, Thanarattrakul exploded onto the scene in 2022. Thanarattrakul finished fourth in a 30,000 buy-in event at the Triton Poker Series Madrid in May 2022, and walked away with $277,050.

Kannapong Thanarattrakul

Biography Kannapong Thanarattrakul is a professional poker player hailing from Bangkok, Thailand, and a member of the Natural8 ambassador team. Thanarattrakul enjoyed several live poker tournament cashes between 2018-2022 but drew a blank in 2021 like many live poker grinders, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, upon his return to live tournaments, Thanarattrakul exploded onto the scene in 2022. Thanarattrakul finished fourth in a 30,000 buy-in event at the Triton Poker Series Madrid in May 2022, and walked away with $277,050.

Adam Walton

Biography Adam Walton is an American poker player from Seattle, Washington. Walton has a long list of cashes going back to 2009, when he came 33rd in a $500 tournament in Las Vegas. Since then he has accrued several wins in smaller tournaments and 19 cashes at the World Series of Poker, including 42nd place in the 2021 WSOP Main Event (where he won $163,900). In total, he has more than $989,037 in live tournament earnings.

Jack Hardcastle

Biography Jack Hardcastle is a British poker player. He is a WPT Champions Club member after winning the WPT Montreal Main Event at partypoker for $447,859. Five British Poker Players to Watch in 2022 Since his WPT win, Hardcastle has racked up the wins and deep runs. In 2022, he ran deep in the Wynn Millions before winning the 888poker LIVE London High Stakes Series Main Event. PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2023 WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas$10,400 WPT World Championship 60th $80,700 2023 UKIPT Brighton1,100 Main Event 53rd £1,640 2023 PokerStars EPT Barcelona5,300 EPT Main Event 132nd €15,550 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #65: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em (6-Handed) 79th $11,524 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #44: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 203rd $5,253 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #28: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout 288th $2,406 2022 PokerStars EPT London1,100 UKIPT Main Event 213th £1,620 2022 PokerStars EPT Barcelona1,100 Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event 387th €3,600 2022 UKIPT Nottingham1,100 Main Event 10th £8,540 2022 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Reading1,000 Main Event 6th £10,370 2022 888poker LIVE London2,100 Main Event 1st £57,098 2022 Wynn Millions$10,000 Main Event $10,000,000 GTD 58th $38,384 2020 PokerStars Blowout SeriesBlowout Series: $109 NLHE 8-Max, The Big Blowout!

Ian Bradley

PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2024 PokerStars EPT Paris5,300 EPT Main Event 42nd €22,900 2023 WSOP EuropeEvent #10: 2,000 8-Game Mix 2nd €29,525 2023 PokerStars EPT Barcelona3,000 EPT Mystery Bounty 109th €4,410 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #35: $10,000 Secret Bounty 13th $36,332 2022 PokerStars EPT Barcelona10,300 EPT High Roller 72nd €17,020 2022 PokerStars EPT Barcelona2,200 Estrellas Poker Tour High Roller 2nd €500,000 2022 Wynn Summer Classic$3,500 NLH Championship 30th $23,476 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #53: $5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot Limit Omaha 87th $8,761 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #39: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed 33rd $10,179 2021 World Series of Poker EuropeEvent #14: 10,350 WSOPE Main Event 85th €18,407 2021 World Series of Poker EuropeEvent #11: 1,650 NLH 6-Max 44th €3,437 2021 World Series of Poker EuropeEvent #6: 1,650 PLO/NLH Mixed 26th €3,607 2021 World Series of Poker EuropeEvent #4: 2,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 3rd/sup> €44,044 2021 Wynn Fall Classic$3,500 NLH Championship 53rd $21,974 2021 Wynn Fall Classic$2,200 Mystery Bounty 96th $6,919 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #76: $400 FORTY STACK No Limit Hold’em 278th $1,332 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #72: $1,500 Limit Hold’em Championship 34th $3,910 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #62: $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha 48th $4,717 2018 World Series of PokerEvent #19: $565 Pot-Limit Omaha 203rd $934

Gab Yong Kim

PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2023 PokerStars EPT Prague3,000 Mystery Bounty 1st €214,678 2023 WSOP EuropeEvent #8: 25,000 NLH GGMillion 4th €189,000 2023 WSOP EuropeEvent #5: 550 NLH Colossus 74th €2,300 2023 WSOP EuropeEvent #4: 2,000 Pot Limit Omaha 3rd €38,800 2022 PokerStars EPT Prague1,100 Eureka Main Event 243rd €3,010 2022 PokerStars EPT Barcelona1,100 Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event 646th €2,330 2021 PokerStars EPT Prague5,300 EPT Main Event 4th €622,610 2021 PokerStars EPT Prague10,200 No-Limit Hold’em 6th €17,150 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #55: HK$8,000 No Limit Hold’em Asia Championship, HK$8M GTD 17th $15,641 2019 PokerStars EPT Prague5,300 EPT Main Event 9th €74,770 2019 PokerStars EPT Prague2,200 EPT National High Roller 23rd €11,420 2019 PokerStars APPT Manila33,000 APPT National 34th 93,000 PHP 2015 PokerStars.