Layne Flack

Biography Born May 18, 1969, Layne Flack hailed from Rapid City, South Dakota before working as a poker dealer in small card clubs in Montana. Eventually, he found his way to Nevada and learned under poker greats like Johnny Chan and Ted Forrest. “At 24, he and his girlfriend moved to Reno, Nevada and by 1995, when his daughter Hailey was born, Layne was a full-time professional poker player,” Al Moe previously wrote in this PokerNews profile.

Sandra Naujoks

Biography Sandra Naujoks is a German poker player and EPT champion. In 2009, she took down EPT Dortmund for 917,000, becoming the second female EPT champion in history. PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2013 PokerStars.com EPT BerlinMain Event 54th €15,000 2013 PokerStars.com EPT LondonMain Event 64th £11,000 2013 PokerStars.fr EPT DeauvilleMain Event 116th €8,000 The 2012 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT Grand FinalMain Event 51st €20,000 2011 World Series of PokerEvent #58: $10,000 Main Event 391st $30,974 2011 PokerStars Caribbean AdventureMain Event 196th $15,000 2010 World Series of PokerEvent #38: $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em Championship 15th $34,639 2010 World Series of PokerEvent #28: $2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha 25th $9,842 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure$25,000 High Roller Event 9th $56,595 2009 World Series of Poker EuropeEvent 3 - 5,000 Pot Limit Omaha 10th £14,900 2009 World Series of PokerEvent 7 - $1,500 No Limit Hold’em 61st $7,390 2009 PokerStars.

Victoria Coren Mitchell

Biography Victoria Coren Mitchell is a British TV presenter and former professional poker player. She was the first woman to win a European Poker Tour title, winning the EPT London Main Event in 2006. She was also the first player male or female to win two European Poker Tour titles after winning the EPT Sanremo Main Event in 2014. Belarusian Mikalai Pobal joined her in accomplishing that feat in 2019.

Henry Orenstein

Biography Henry Orenstein was a Polish-American toy maker, poker player and entrepreneur. He is the patent holder for the hole cam, a device that enabled players to see player’s hole cards, which was instrumental in the poker boom. He won a WSOP bracelet in 1996 in a $5,000 Limit Seven Card Stud event for $130,000. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2008 and passed away in December 2021 aged 98.

Vanessa Rousso

Biography Vanessa Rousso is a French-American poker player from Miami, Florida. During her career, she has cashed for more than $3.5 million and is a former member of Team PokerStars Pro. She attended Duke University and graduated with a degree in economics. She was on the Deans list and graduated after only two and a half years. From there, she attended the University of Miami School of Law. In 2015, she appeared on a season of Big Brother, but would ultimately finish third.

Tom McEvoy

Biography Tom McEvoy is an American poker player who won the 1983 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. He is a four-time WSOP bracelet-winner and in 2013, he was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. “I consider this the highest honor a poker player can receive next to winning the Main Event of the World Series of Poker,” he said at the time. “I feel both deeply honored and humbled to be included with all the other poker greats.

Mimi Tran

Biography Mimi Tran is a Vietnamese-American poker player with over $1.6 million in live tournament earnings who appeared on the first season of High Stakes Poker in 2006. In 2006, Tran had a career-best score in the World Poker Finals Mashantucket $9,700 Championship, where she finished third for $472,228. The previous year, Tran finished fourth in the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Atlantic City $9,500 Championship for $189,240. In the late 1990s, Tran had two close calls to winning a WSOP bracelet.

Mikhail Shalamov

Biography Mikhail Shalamov is a Russian poker player who is a former member GGPoker Ambassador. A former member of PokerStars Team Pro Online, Shalamov has been playing since 2008 and is one of Russia’s most popular and entertaining players. He regularly streams 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.

Berry Johnston

Biography Berry Johnston is an American poker player who won the 1986 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Over the course of his career he has won five WSOP bracelets, including in Razz and Omaha, with his first bracelet coming in the very first WSOP Heads-Up Event held at the WSOP. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2004. Johnston’s last live WSOP cash came during the 2016 World Series of Poker, but he most recently cashed in two events during the 2020 WSOP Online.

Loni Hui

Biography Loni Harwood Hui is an American poker player and two-time WSOP bracelet winner. She has also won five WSOP Circuit rings and has amassed over $3.4 million in total live earnings. In 2020, she married fellow two-time bracelet winner Phillip Hui. She won her first bracelet in 2013, winning Event #60 $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em for $609,017, topping a field of 2,541 players. That year she also made two other final table finishes.

Jim Collopy

Biography Jim Collopy is an American poker player and three-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner. He won his first bracelet at the 2013 WSOP Asia-Pacific, winning Event #2: $1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha for A$69,662. Eight years later, he got his hands on a second bracelet after winning Event #32: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. for $172,823. It always feels cool to win on a big stage, so Id say thats what makes it most different, Collopy said comparing his second bracelet to the first.

Calvin Anderson

Biography Calvin Anderson is an American poker player and four-time bracelet winner with over $3.5 million in live tournament earnings. Anderson’s first cash dates back to 2009 when he finished sixth in the European Poker Tour (EPT) London 50 No-Limit Hold’em - Shootout for $2,468. Five years later, Anderson won his first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet by taking down the 2014 $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo for $190,538. He won a second WSOP bracelet in 2018 when he won the $10,000 Razz Championship for $309,220.

Felix Schneiders

Biography Felix Schneiders is a German poker player, Twitch streamer and PokerStars Ambassador. Schneiders plays under the username “xflixx” on PokerStars, and joined PokerStars Team Online in 2013. Sunday Million Where Poker Dreams Are Made says Felix “xflixx” Schneiders A former math student and “Magic: The Gathering” player, Schneiders began playing poker in 2005 and has since become a small- to mid-stakes six-max no-limit hold’em specialist. PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2024 PokerStars EPT Paris1,100 FPS Main Event 477th €2,170 2023 PokerStars EPT Prague1,100 Eureka Main Event 73rd €6,850 2023 UKIPT Edinburgh1,100 Main Event 29th £1,720 2023 PokerStars Summer Festival Malta1,100 Main Event 25th €4,490 2023 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker$1,050 Main Event 500th $2,521 2019 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure$25,000 PokerStars NL Hod’em Players Championship 40th $69,100

Cary Katz

Biography Cary Katz is an American businessman and high stakes poker player who founded PokerGO, a streaming service that offers coverage of various high roller tournaments and World Series of Poker (WSOP) events. Katz, who almost exclusively plays high rollers, has won an incredible $34.5 million in live tournament earnings to put him eighth on the all-time money list. Originally from Georgia, Katz earned his first tournament cash in 2004 at Festa al Lago II in Las Vegas, where he finished 24th in United States the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Championship for $10,381.

Sam Soverel

Biography Sam Soverel is an American poker player from Florida who has amassed $18.2 million in live tournament earnings, putting him third on the state’s all-time money list behind Sean Winter and Jason Mercier. Just a month after getting his first tournament cash, Soverel finished second in the 2011 $3,500 WPT Jacksonville Main Event for $187,762. Soverel quickly moved up in stakes and now primarily plays a high roller schedule. In October 2016, Soverel took down a $100,000 Aria Super High Roller for just over a million, his biggest tournament score to date.

Justin Saliba

Biography Justin Saliba is an American poker player and WSOP bracelet winner. He won the 2021 WSOP Online Event #15: $5,300 High Roller Freezout for $253,800. From Bust to High Roller Champion Justin Jsaliba2 Salibas Road to WSOP Gold The following year, he finished fourth in Event #65: $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em at the 2022 WSOP for $194,525. PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2024 PokerStars EPT Paris3,000 Mystery Bounty 41st €5,300 2023 WSOP ParadiseEvent #10: $5,000 Main Event Championship 60th $32,200 2023 PokerStars EPT Barcelona50,000 Super High Roller Second Chance 5th €100,600 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #76: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship 781st $25,000 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #79: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em 151st $5,471 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #13: $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Championship 33rd $12,036 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #8: $3,200 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller 32nd $8,491 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #23: $50,000 High Roller (8-Handed) 19th $81,983 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #16: $25,000 High Roller (8-Handed) 18th $56,931 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #13: $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack 299th $1,202 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #3: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack 101st $2,664 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #2: $500 No-Limit Hold’em Bankroll Builder 230th $1,311 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #3: $1,000 Mystery Millions 2055th $1,160 2023 PokerStars EPT Paris25,000 No-Limit Hold’em III 6th €65,900 2023 PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold’em Championship2023 PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold’em Championship 134th $40,300 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure$10,300 PCA Main Event 82nd $22,300 The Return - A Borgata Championship Event$5,300 The Return ($3,000,000 Guaranteed) 5th $304,629 2022 WSOP OnlineEvent #32: $10,000 NLH Super High Roller 8-Max 1st $154,752 2022 WSOP OnlineEvent #30: $5,300 High Roller 10th $10,625 2022 WSOP OnlineEvent #29: $1,000 NLH Championship 45th $2,829 2022 WSOP OnlineEvent #5: $500 NLH Turbo Deepstack 52nd $1,321 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #86: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Championship 60th $16,000 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #78: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em 113th $5,290 2022 World Series of PokerOnline $3,200 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller 8-Max 24th $8,868 2022 World Series of PokerOnline $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Bracelet Championship 74th $2,657 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #65: $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em 4th $194,525 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #53: $5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot Limit Omaha 58th $11,694 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #37: $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER No-Limit Hold’em 511th $4,172 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #21: $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold’em 24th $38,231 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #14: $1,500 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 259th $2,630 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #11: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack 697th $1,050 2022 World Series of PokerOnline No-Limit Hold’em BIG $500 199th $799 2022 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo5,300 Main Event 15th €46,890 2022 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo1,100 FPS Main Event 84th €3,660 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #88: $5,000 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 54th $10,076 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #68: $1,111 Little One for One Drop 564th $1,779 2021 MPT Venetian$1,600 Main Event 66th $4,777 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #26: $1,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em 52nd $3,779 2021 WSOP.

Andrew Lichtenberger

Biography Andrew Lichtenberger is an American poker player and WSOP bracelet winner. He won his WSOP bracelet in 2016, taking down Event #52: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em for $569,158. “It feels amazing to win,” Lichtenberger said at the time. “I’ve been playing the World Series since 2009, and I’ve been watching it since I was a kid when I saw Chris Moneymaker win, so it feels amazing.” WPT Legends Dunst and Lichtenberger Discuss Online Poker

Jaime Staples

Biography Jaime Staples is a Canadian poker player and PartyPoker Ambassador. The popular Twitch streamer joined PokerStars back in 2015, but parted ways in 2019. Later that year he joined PartyPoker. The Staples Brothers Have Some Tips for Streaming on Twitch - Check Them Out! In 2018, Staples famously won a $150,000 Weight Loss Bet against Bill Perkins. In 2021, Staples finished third in the WPT Online Series WPT500 for $74,227.

Vanessa Kade

Biography Vanessa Kade is a Canadian poker player who rose to prominence when she won the 15th anniversary PokerStars Sunday Million for $1.5 million. In addition to the career-best seven-figure score, Kade has picked up over a million in live tournament earnings. Formerly a video game designer, Kade turned to poker full time and played primarily online while streaming on Twitch. In March 2021, Kade, playing under the username “Niffller,” took down the Sunday Million 15th Anniversary after getting through a massive field of 69,876 players, in what Kade called “the best day of my life.

Josh Reichard

Biography Josh Reichard is a poker pro from Janesville, Wisconsin who was inducted into the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Hall of Fame in September 2022, becoming just the 10th member of the club. He won an MSPT event in 2013 in Milwaukee and has 26 cashes on tour overall. Reichard has over $2 million in lifetime live tournament cashes, according to Hendon Mob. His greatest claim to fame isn’t his MSPT Hall of Fame honor.

Carlos Mortensen

Biography Carlos Mortensen is an Ecuadorian poker player who won the 2001 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Known as ‘El Matador’, Mortensen has also won three World Poker Tour (WPT) titles and has cashed for over $6.7 million on the WPT alone, more than any other player. In 2016, Mortensen was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. Biography Born in Ambato, Ecuador on April 13, 1972, Mortensen moved to Spain as a child.

Jordan Banfield

Biography Jordan Banfield is a Canadian poker player and streamer. In 2021, he joined 888poker as part of their Twitch StreamTeam. I’m very excited to work with 888poker!," he told PokerNews “I aim to provide great content through this collaboration and proud to rep the brand as one of their online pros. 888poker Stream Team Member Jordan Banfield Sets Sights on $100k Bankroll Twitch Channel: twitch.tv/jordanbanfield_ Sign up to 888poker Don’t have an account with 888poker yet?

Michael Rocco

PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2023 WSOP EuropeEvent #13: 10,350 Main Event NLH European Championship 5th €341,000 2023 WSOP EuropeEvent #8: 25,000 NLH GGMillion 2nd €365,000 2023 WSOP EuropeEvent #6: 5,000 Pot Limit Omaha 13th €12,425 2023 PokerStars EPT Paris1,100 FPS Paris Main Event 103rd €3,460 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure$10,300 PCA Main Event 32nd $33,800 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #70: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event World Championship 94th $73,100 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #65: $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em 55th $10,425 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #53: $5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot Limit Omaha 20th $23,327 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #46: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 78th $10,066 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #29: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw 43rd $2,643 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #23: $3,000 Limit Hold’em 6-Handed 2nd $87,854 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #12: $50,000 High Roller 7th $192,570 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #5: $500 The Housewarming No-Limit Hold’em 662nd $2,160 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #52: $1,000 Seniors Championship 389th $2,344 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #14: $1,500 Seven Card Stud 36th $2,457 MSPT Venetian $1,100 Main Event ($1.

Justin Bonomo

Biography Justin ZeeJustin Bonomo is one of the most known poker players in the world and has been a fixture of the super high roller and high roller circuit for a number of years. He currently sits on top of the The Hendon Mob All-Time Money List with over $57 million in live tournament earnings. Intro Justin Bonomo is a professional poker player currently residing in Vancouver, Canada. He is also a well-recognized live and online player known by his alias ZeeJustin.