Jerry Yang – WSOP Main Event Winner 2007

Poker.com — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:49:45 +0000

Jerry Yang called himself a ‘true rookie’ before winning the 2007 World Series of Poker main event. A virtual unknown before the event, he equalled Jamie Gold’s record of eliminating 7 of the 8 other players at the final table in a very agressive performance, calling virtually every all in against him. After entering the [...]

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David Williams

Poker.com — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:48:12 +0000

David Williams started his card game domination as a youngster playing ‘Magic The Gathering’, a strategy card game that also involves tournament play. After being accepted to both Harvard and Princeton, Williams studied economics and math before giving online poker a try. David Williams began playing poker online in the Bodog Poker Room, where he [...]

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Robert Varkonyi – 2002 WSOP Main Event Champion

Poker.com — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:45:27 +0000

Robert was born in 1961 in New York. Both of his parents are Hungarian immigrants who fled their homeland in 1956 after a communist regime was instilled. After a daring escape, they met in New York and wed. Robert graduated from MIT with one degree in computer science and another in management. He spent 15 [...]

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Stu “The Kid” Ungar

Poker.com — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:44:30 +0000

Stu was born in New York City and raised on the city’s Lower East Side, an incredible gin rummy player. At age 10 in ’63, he won his first gin rummy tournament. At age 14, he was regularly playing and beating the best players in New York. At 15 he dropped out of school when [...]

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Dewey Tomko

Poker.com — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:43:23 +0000

Dewey grew up in Glassport, Pa., a hamlet 15 miles outside Pittsburgh. As a child he played pinochle with his parents, but not poker. Later he learned that one of his grandfathers had been a professional gambler. Around age 8, he began playing blackjack for bottles against other neighborhood kids, and as a teen he [...]

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Bill Smith

Poker.com — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:42:12 +0000

Bill was a great no-limit poker player, a dangerous player, and it seemed like he never worried about anything, including whether or not he had any money. He featured on 3 final tables at the WSOP Main Event, winning the World Championship in 1985 and coming 5th in both 1981 and 1986. If he hadn’t [...]

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Huck Seed

Poker.com — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:39:55 +0000

Huck Seed was a former engineering student at CalTech. He took a leave of absence in 1989, started playing poker, and never went back to college. It is said that he is a native of Montana. While imposing at 6’7″ tall, his quiet and private nature go far beyond the poker table. Stone cold silent [...]

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Greg Raymer – 2004 WSOP Main Event Winner

Poker.com — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:38:43 +0000

Greg ‘Fossilman’ Raymer shot to fame when he won the 2004 World Series of Poker and it’s $5 million first prize. He adopted the ‘Fossilman’ nickname due to the fossils he uses for card protectors while sitting at the poker table. He actually sold similar fossils to pad his bankroll in the early stages of [...]

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David Pham

Poker.com — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:36:58 +0000

David “The Dragon” Pham fled Vietnam for America at the age of 17 in a boat carrying 145 people (9 of whom died on the journey.) He is the cousin of Men “The Master” Nguyen. After Nguyen’s early success in professional poker, he opened up a cleaning business that David worked for. Like many of [...]

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Scotty Nguyen

Poker.com — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:31:39 +0000

In 1974, at the impressionable age of 14, Scotty Nguyen (pronounced ‘win’), his loved ones encouraged him to escape the poverty and hardship of his Vietnamese community. He took a few possessions and boarded a ship headed for the United States of America. The difficulties he experienced adjusting to a new country, culture, and lifestyle [...]

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