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Johnny Chan’s wanted to be a movie star, Doyle Brunson once sat next to a guy who had his head blown off, and Ben Affleck has won a ranking poker tournament with a top prize of over $250,000. In this section you’ll find profiles of the greatest poker players ever, interviews with the ones that are still alive and a sneak peek at which famous celebrities like to flirt with the world’s favourite card game.
Pro Player Profiles
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Doyle Brunson |
| Doyle Brunson, ‘Texas Dolly’, is the unrivalled legend of poker. He is the Jack Nicklaus, the Pele, the Don Bradman of the world’s best known and best loved card game – the only difference is that he is still playing and still winning. |
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Johnny Chan |
| Johnny “The Orient Express” Chan is possibly the best known poker player in the world. Immortalised in film as well as in the poker records, Chan’s ten World Series of Poker bracelets include back-to-back WSOP Championship event wins in 1987 & 1988, the second of which is featured in the movie Rounders. |
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Phil Hellmuth Jr. |
| Phil Hellmuth is one of the greatest tournament poker players ever, with an almost unrivalled record in Hold’em events and a massive amount of tournament winnings to show for it. Hellmuth is also one of the world’s best known poker players, seemingly forever on the television and a regular feature in poker magazines across the globe. |
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Joe Hachem |
| Joseph Hachem rocketed to fame in 2005 with his win over the largest WSOP field in history, a win which earned him the biggest payout in any poker event ever.
Beating 5619 players to the title, Joe Hachem earned $7.5 million, making him the highest earning tournament player of all time – with just one win to his name.
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Chris Moneymaker |
| Moneymaker’s story is one of poker’s greatest; a truly remarkable tale of rags to riches, of winning against all odds, of guts, and of luck. And believe it or not, Chris Brian Moneymaker’s name is, well, his real name. Yes, it really is.
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Pro Player Interviews
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Bengt Sonnert |
| Bengt Sonnert is a fast becoming a sensation in the poker world. A former engineering student from the home town of internet legend Erik Sagstrom, Bengt is just 24, and has only been playing poker for three years, but that hasn’t stopped him building up a fierce reputation and a sizeable bankroll. |
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Roy 'The Boy' Brindley |
| A relative unknown at the beginning of 2002, Roy “The Boy” Brindley became a European poker star in the blink of an eye. That year, his first as a full time poker player (Roy only started playing poker in September 2001!) Roy won eight festival tournaments and came second in the World Heads-up Poker Championship. |
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Tony G |
| Tony G is affectionately known as “The Mouth from Down Under” and anyone who has seen him playing poker in a televised event will know exactly where that name comes from. Known for his often outrageous “smack talking”, Tony notoriously shows no affection and no compassion whatsoever for his opponents at the poker table, often taunting players after knocking them out. |
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Marc Goodwin |
| It hasn’t been the worst of years for Marc Goodwin. A former windows salesman from Birmingham, Marc decided to turn pro ten months ago, just after his third place finish in the Monte Carlo Millions. He could be forgiven for wondering what all the fuss is about. |
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Poker Player Celebs
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Ben Affleck |
| As celebrities go, you don’t get much bigger than Mr Affleck. Affleck is a ‘grade A’ celebrity, no doubt about it. The man is fabulously rich, good looking, and a Hollywood movie star – having played the lead in such blockbuster films as Armageddon and Pearl Harbour. |
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20/06/2007 10:56:26
2007 WSOP: Events 27 – 29
We have now passed the half way line in the 2007 World Series, and some of the more exciting events are fast approaching, such as the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship and the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E Championship, which last year produced one of the highest quality final tables of all time. In the meantime however, there is still plenty of money and jewellery to be won.
18/06/2007 11:38:58
2007 WSOP: Events 21 to 26
With 26 events now played the 2007 WSOP is almost at the half way stage. Although numbers have been slightly down on last year the Rio is still buzzing with thousands of poker players, and the overall feeling is definitely positive, especially for these lot:
14/06/2007 17:16:34
2007 WSOP: Events #17 - #21
The WSOP continues to roll on, and as we get further into proceedings it seems the pro players are beginning to get their teeth stuck into the final tables.
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