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Joe McKeehen
Biography Joe McKeehen is an American poker player. In 2015, he won the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. He defeated a field of 6,420 players to take home $7,683,346. He has since won two further WSOP bracelets with the $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship in 2017 and a $3,200 High Roller event during the 2020 WSOP Online. Other Poker Achievements Following his bracelet success, he continued to play on the poker circuit and picked up the second seven-figure cash of his career less than a month later, finishing second in the PCA $100,000 Super High Roller for $1,220,840.
Vanessa Selbst
Biography Vanessa Selbst is an American former professional poker player with more than $11.9 million in career earnings. She is one of only three female poker players to have won three WSOP bracelets (Barbara Enright and Nani Dollison) but is the only player to have achieved this feat only in “open” events. Selbst is arguably one of the best female poker players in history. A former PokerStars Team Pro, she retired from poker in 2018.
Ramon Colillas
Biography Ramon Colillas is a Spanish poker player best known for winning the 2019 PSPC PokerStars Players Championship for $5.1 million. With over $6.1 million in live earnings, the PokerStars ambassador sits fifth on Spain’s all-time money list. The majority of Colillas’ tournament earnings were earned in the aforementioned PokerStars Players Championship, a $25,000 buy-in event that the Spaniard freerolled into with a Platinum Pass promotion before he topped the field of 1,039 to earn the seven-figure score.
Liv Boeree
Biography Liv Boeree is a former British poker player and former PokerStars Ambassador. Over the course of her career, she cashed for over $3.8 million and won both a European Poker Tour title and a World Series of Poker bracelet the only female player in poker history to achieve such a feat. Away from poker, she has a degree in Astrophysics from the University of Manchester. She is in a long-term relationship with fellow former poker player Igor Kurganov.
Shannon Shorr
Biography Shannon Shorr is an American poker player and World Series of Poker bracelet winner with $12 million in career earnings as of October 2023. After years of being considered one of the best players without a bracelet, Shorr took down a 2023 WSOP Online US event for $89,126 and his “long-awaited” maiden bracelet. Shorr has won Poker Masters and US Poker Open titles during his career. The largest cash of Shorr’s career came in 2006 when he won a $10,300 Bellagio Cup for $960,690.
Aram Oganyan
PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2023 WSOP ParadiseEvent #11: $800 Flip & Go 16th $4,300 2023 WSOP ParadiseEvent #3: $25,000 GGMillion$ High Rollers Championship 72nd $42,200 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #90: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Championship 56th $18,853 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #18: $2,000 Freezeout Championship 31st $4,179 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #16: $600 Online Deepstack Championship 28th $4,659 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #64: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack Championship 213th $1,741 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #68: $1,000 Super Turbo Bounty 60th $4,023 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #44: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 2nd $443,680 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #35: $10,000 Secret Bounty 2nd $453,226 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #28: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout 61st $7,048 2023 BetMGM Poker Championship$3,500 Main Event 127th $4,793 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #19: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout 88th $5,643 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #3: $1,000 Mystery Millions 274th $5,420 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #2: $25,000 High Roller (6-Handed) 32nd $40,000 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #70: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event World Championship 281st $46,800 2022 World Series of PokerOnline $600 Deepstack Championship 30th $3,754 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #16: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 84th $6,962 2022 Wynn Millions$10,000 Main Event $10,000,000 GTD 79th $31,323 2021 World Series of PokerWSOP.
Scotty Nguyen
Biography Scotty Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American poker player. Over the course of his career, he has won five World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets including the 1998 WSOP Main Event. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2013. Thank you so much, this is wonderful news, Nguyen said at the time. You work so hard, you put so much time in that you want and hope it will be recognized.
Darren Elias
Biography Darren Elias is an American poker player with over $10 million in total live earnings and is a regular name in the high roller scene. Elias is the most successful player to have competed at the World Poker Tour, where he has won over $4.5 million. He has four titles under the WPT umbrella from 13 final table appearances. He narrowly missed out on a fifth title in May 2022, finishing second in the SHR Poker Showdown to Mark Davis.
Todd Brunson
Biography Todd Brunson may be the son of poker legend Doyle Brunson, but since turning pro himself after dropping out of Texas Tech University, Todd had put his own stamp on the poker world. Among his accolades, Todd has amassed over $3.2 million in career tournament earnings and owns his own WSOP gold bracelet. Much like his father, most of Todds poker career has been spent playing cash games. Hes a regular in the highest limits around Las Vegas and has proven himself to be one of the best players in the world.
Alejandro Lococo
Biography Alejandro Lococo, also known by his stage name “Papo MC” is an Argentinian MC, avid poker player, and former PokerStars Ambassador. Lococo has racked up $1,343,127 in live tournament earnings, which includes four cashes under the WSOP umbrella. Prior to Lococo finishing 7th in the 2021 WSOP Main Event Final Table, his best live cash of $36,772 was achieved thanks to his fifth-place finish in the MILLIONS South America Rio Open.
Benjamin Spragg
Biography Ben “Spraggy” Spragg is a British poker player and PokerStars Ambassador. After graduating in 2012, he started playing poker and streaming on the internet. Spragg started as a cash game player, but after grinding those tables he moved over to tournament poker. He first joined PokerStars as a member of Team Online in 2017. Over the course of his career he has won numerous online titles, including World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) titles in 2020 and 2021.
Lucille Cailly
Biography Lucille Cailly is a French poker player, writer, and stand-up comedian who resides in London, England. She has recorded over $1.5 million in live tournament earnings, with her best cash being $1,386,267. Cailly finished in second place in the 2012 EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final to pick up the seven-figure payday, having lost out on the title to Mohsin Charania. Since 2016, Cailly toned down her hours on the felt and shifted her focus onto a career in comedy.
Jen Harman
Biography Jennifer Harman is an American poker player. Over the course of her career, she won two World Series of Poker bracelets. Mother to two children, Harman was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2015. Biography Harman was born in Reno, Nevada on November 29th, 1964. She suffered from kidney problems, and would go on to receive two kidney transplants. Her mother died from kidney failure. She began playing poker by sneaking into casinos at the age of just 16.
Jack McClelland
Biography Jack McClelland is a former poker tournament director and cardroom manager. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of fame in 2014. Being inducted into the Class of 2014 Poker Hall of Fame is a very exciting prospect and I am sure it will be a very humbling experience, said McClelland. I thank everyone involved in this process and to the WSOP, WPT and all of the great people I have met and the wonderful people I have worked with throughout the years.
Dan Harrington
Biography Dan Harrington is an American poker player and author who won the 1995 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Over the course of his career, “Action Dan” won two WSOP bracelets, made four WSOP Main Event final tables, won a WPT title and over six million dollars in tournament winnings. In 2010 he was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. Biography Harrington was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on December 6, 1945.
Mikhail Semin
Biography Mikhail Semin is a Russian poker player and commentator who is a member of GGPoker’s Team Russia alongside Anatoly Filatov and Mikhail Shalamov. He has final-tabled the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) on two separate occasions. Related: Brush up on your H.O.R.S.E. strategy! Mikhail Semin Top 5 Cashes Year Event Buy-in Place Payout June 2016 WSOP Millionaire Maker $1,500 7th $160,726 June 2016 WSOP H.
Jukka Juvonen
PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2010 PokerStars.net APPT CebuMain Event 7th 805,000 PHP 2010 PokerStars.net APPT MacauMain Event 26th 76,400 HKD
Nicholas Walsh
Biography Nicholas Walsh is a PokerStars Ambassador and face of the PokerStars Twitch Channel. He has commentated on some of the biggest online festivals such as the Stadium Series, SCOOP and the prestigious Sunday Million. He has also commentated on the European Poker Tour, including EPT Barcelona. PokerStars’ Nick Walsh on ‘Donk3399’ $2M Win: ‘I Sat There in Shock’ As a player, Walsh specialises in the more unusual hold’em formats such as Spin & Go and Kick Off.
Lander Lijo Bereciartua
PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #20: $777 No-Limit Hold’em Lucky 7’s 39th $3,916
Johnny Moss
Biography Johnny Moss was an American gambler and poker player. His nickname was ‘The Grand Old Man of Poker’. During his career, he won nine World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets including three WSOP Main Events (1970, 1971, 1974), a feat matched only by Stu Ungar (1980, 1981, 1997). In 1979, Moss was an inaugural inductee to the Poker Hall of Fame in 1979. Moss died in December 1995, aged 88.
Linda Johnson
Biography Linda Johnson is an American poker player and former WSOP bracelet winner. She was an inaugural inductee to the Women in Poker Hall of Fame and was the second woman (after Barbara Enright) to be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. “I am extremely proud and humbled to be voted into the Poker Hall of Fame, Johnson said at the time. I feel lucky to have been involved in many facets of poker over the past 35 years.
Chad Eveslage
Biography Chad Eveslage is an American poker player and three-time WSOP bracelet winner from Indiana with over $7.1 million in career earnings and two World Poker Tour (WPT) titles. Five American Poker Players to Watch in 2022 Growing up on a cow farm in southern Indiana, Eveslage discovered poker on ESPN during the Moneymaker Boom and started playing online. After starting off with play money, Eveslage did well in poker and started playing real money in high school.
Alexandre Mantovani
Biography Alexandre “Cavalito” Mantovani is a Brazilian poker player and 888poker Ambassador. “I cant speak for others, but ever since Ive started my career as a poker player, Ive always dreamed of being a professional representing a poker site. And Im very happy to have reached another goal in my career!” said Mantovani. Be sure to follow Mantovani on Twitch, Instagram or Twitter. Sign up to 888poker Don’t have an account with 888poker yet?
Barry Greenstein
Biography Barry Greenstein is an American professional poker player from Chicago, Illinois. He is widely recognized as The Robin Hood of Poker for donating big parts of his poker winnings to charity. Greenstein has three World Series of Poker bracelets in his trophy collection as well as two World Poker Tour titles. Intro Barry is a very professional player and never seems to lose his cool at the table, even if he does lose the occasional $1 million pot on an episode of High Stakes Poker.