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Joe Hachem
Posted: October 31st, 2006 under Poker Players, ezPoker News. Comments: none
Joseph (Joe) Hachem (pronounced “Ha-shem”) (Arabic: جوزف هاشم) (born 3 November 1966 in Lebanon) is a Lebanese-Australian poker player.
Hachem won the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 no limit Texas hold ‘em Main Event, outlasting 5,618 other players, and winning $7,500,000. Hachem was short-stacked for much of the final table, and did not take a chip lead until there were just 3 players remaining.
Unlike the previous two winners (Greg Raymer and Chris Moneymaker), Hachem was not an Internet qualifier, instead paying the full buy-in. However, like Raymer and Moneymaker, Hachem is now a representative of PokerStars.
After Hachem won the 2005 Main Event, WSOP commentator Norman Chad declared, “Hachem turned 7-3 offsuit into $7.5 million. Pass the sugar!” Hachem himself first used what would become his catch phrase after flopping a flush with A6 of clubs against Andrew Black’s three queens, and winning a large pot.
At the 2006 World Series of Poker, Hachem finished second in the $2,500 short-handed no limit hold ‘em.
Hachem later finished fourth in the $2,500 pot limit hold’em tournament; he was once again eliminated after taking a bad beat on the river, this time from eventual winner John Gale.
Hachem also finished in the money (238th place) of the 2006 WSOP Main Event, after his pocket Aces were outdrawn by Andrew Schreibman’s pocket Jacks. (Schreibman eliminated another player along with Hachem.) Hachem took home $42,882, and in defense of his title outlasted 97.2% of the largest field in poker history. He was also the last remaining Main Event champion left in the field, as Greg Raymer had been the year before.
More about Joe Hachem: website
Scotty Nguyen
Posted: October 31st, 2006 under Poker Players. Comments: none
Thuan “Scotty” Nguyen (born October 28, 1962 in Nha Trang, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese American professional poker player. Nguyen is one of the most active players in professional poker today, and from 2000 to 2004 he finished in the money in more than 100 events. He won the 1998 World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event and has 4 WSOP bracelets overall.
Nguyen is noted for saying “baby” and “yeah baby” frequently during poker matches as well as playing with lots of emotion. He also has coined the phrase “That’s poker baby” when referring to a particularly bad beat. On the final hand of the 1998 World Series of Poker’s main event, a full house was dealt on the table. Nguyen made the memorable quote to his opponent Kevin McBride: “You call, going be all over baby!” McBride called, and it was all over, as Nguyen beat McBride with a better full house.
Nguyen made an appearance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien in April 2004.
After making several World Poker Tour (WPT) final tables, Nguyen eventually won a WPT event in January 2006, defeating Michael Mizrachi heads-up in the fourth season Gold Strike World Poker Open
As of 2006, his total live tournament winnings exceed $6,700,000.
John Juanda
Posted: October 30th, 2006 under Poker Players. Comments: none
Johnson (John) Juanda (born July 8, 1971 in Indonesia) is an American professional poker player based in Marina del Rey, California.
John was a high school track star for the 200 meter sprints to 5000 meter races. He had a stint as a door to door salesman selling Bibles.
He was the 2002 tournament Champion of the Year, winning 3 World Series of Poker titles, and a World Poker Open Championship title. In November 2004 he won the inaugural Professional Poker Tour event.
In November 2005 he earned nearly $500,000 in Monte Carlo, Monaco after winning the Monte Carlo Millions Consolation tournament, finishing sixth in the Monte Carlo Millions Main Event, and finishing second at “The FullTiltPoker.Net Invitational Live from Monte Carlo.”
In January 2006, Juanda defeated a field including Jeff Lisandro, Mike Sexton, Barry Greenstein, Tony Bloom, Tony G and Phil Ivey to win the AUD1,000,000 ($732,901) first prize in the Crown Australian Poker Championship AUD100,000 speed poker event.
As of 2006, his total live tournament winnings exceed $6,300,000.
Juanda is a member of “Team Full Tilt” at Full Tilt Poker.
Greg Raymer
Posted: October 30th, 2006 under Poker Players. Comments: none
Gregory (Greg) P. “Fossilman” Raymer (born 1964 in Minot, North Dakota) is a professional poker player. He is best known for winning the 2004 World Series of Poker main event, and for the opaque holographic sunglasses that he wears during hands.
After moving to Stonington, Connecticut in 1999, Raymer began playing poker at Foxwoods Resort Casino while he was working as a patent lawyer for a pharmaceutical company.
Raymer first finished in the money of a World Series of Poker (WSOP) event during 2001 in the $1,500 Omaha hi-lo split 8 or better event won by Chris “Jesus” Ferguson. The next year he could be seen in the background as Robert Varkonyi celebrated after winning the main event at the 2002 World Series of Poker.
At the 2004 World Series, Raymer defeated David Williams to win the $5,000,000 first prize in the $10,000 no limit Texas hold ‘em WSOP main event. Raymer received the entry fee to the tournament by winning a $160 satellite event on PokerStars, just like the 2003 winner, Chris Moneymaker. Raymer is now a representative of PokerStars, alongside Moneymaker and the 2005 World Series of Poker champion Joe Hachem.
Raymer went on to finish in 25th place (out of 5,619 entrants) in the 2005 WSOP Main Event, earning him $304,680. This has been described by his peers as one of the most incredible achievements in poker, considering the rapidly increasing field of players in the Main Event every year.
Raymer appeared in Poker Superstars III but was eliminated in the preliminaries.
In March 2006, Raymer (as “Fossilman”) took 2nd place in the first quarterly $1,000,000 guaranteed tournament on PokerStars, winning over $180,000 in a field of over 1500 tournament players.
As of 2006, his total live tournament winnings exceed $5,700,000.
Related links to Greg Raymer: Official website | PokerPlayer Interview
Men Nguyen
Posted: October 29th, 2006 under Poker Players, ezPoker News. Comments: none
Men “The Master” Nguyen (born 1954 in Phan Thiet, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player.
Nguyen has over 120 finishes in the money from 2000 to 2004, and during his career spanning over 17 years he has won more than 75 tournaments.
Nguyen is known for tutoring players, many of whom go on to be successful in their own right. He is believed to have trained more tournament winners than anyone else, according to Benny Binion Behnen, grandson of Benny Binion. However, the poker school’s reputation has been tarnished by unsubstantiated rumors that his students dump chips to others (1).
In 1991 one of his students gave him the nickname “The Master,” and now he is widely known as “Men the Master.” He donates a portion of the money he earns through tournaments and tutoring to charities in Vietnam, and in 1996 built a kindergarten in Vietnam. One thing that is substantiated, however, is that Men receives a portion of all his students’ winnings.
Nguyen won the Card Player Magazine Player of the Year award in 1997, 2001, 2003 and 2005 and is widely revered as one of the most fearsome cash game and tournament players in the world.
As of 2006, his total live tournament winnings exceed $7,375,000.
related links: Official website | Pokerpage Interview |
Evelyn Ng
Posted: October 28th, 2006 under Poker Players. Comments: none
Evelyn “Evybabee” Ng (also known as Evelyn “Champagne” Ng) (born September 14, 1975 in Toronto) is a Canadian professional poker player.
Ng began her gambling career playing pool for money at age 14. By age 17, she had expanded into dealing blackjack and poker games in her hometown of Toronto. Around that time, she dated fellow Canadian poker player Daniel Negreanu. He helped her develop a style of play designed to combat aggressive players.[1]
Ng achieved fame on the WPT circuit in 2003 after placing second in the Ladies’ Night I tournament - finishing ahead of established professionals including Annie Duke, Kathy Liebert and Jennifer Harman.
Ng was included as one of the characters in the video game Stacked with Daniel Negreanu. Formerly a representative of the online poker room PokerStars, she is now part of Team Bodog along with fellow pros David Williams, Josh Arieh and 2006 World Series of Poker main event winner Jamie Gold. Ng was a participant in the King of Vegas television series on SpikeTV.
As of 2006, Ng’s total live tournament winnings exceed $250,000.
Links: Official Website | WPT Online
Erick Lindgren
Posted: October 28th, 2006 under Poker Players. Comments: none
Erick “E-Dog” Lindgren (born August 11, 1976 in Burney, California) is an American professional poker player.
He won his first major tournament at the Bellagio in 2002 and followed that up with his first World Poker Tour (WPT) win ten months later. Six months after that, he won the WPT PartyPoker Million III cruise, where he walked away with the million dollar top prize.
In January 2005, he finished 2nd in the World Series of Poker Circuit Event in Atlantic City. In February, he finished 5th in the WPT LA Poker Classic and just a week later, he won the second Professional Poker Tour tournament, also in LA.
In January 2006 he made another WPT final table, finishing 3rd at the 2006 Borgata Winter Poker Open.
In June 2006, Lindgren won the $600,000 first prize in the FullTiltPoker.net Poker Pro Showdown event, outlasting Mike Matusow, Clonie Gowen, Erik Seidel, John Juanda, Chris Ferguson and Phil Ivey.
As of 2006, his total live tournament winnings exceed $4,700,000.
Lindgren is the author of the book, “World Poker Tour: Making the Final Table”, which covers strategy for poker tournaments.
Both the first name ‘Erick’ and the family name ‘Lindgren’ are Swedish names, making it likely that Erick Lindgren has Swedish ancestors.
He is a member of “Team Full Tilt” at Full Tilt Poker.
More info on Erick Lindgren official website
Hollywood Poker
Posted: October 27th, 2006 under Celebrities, Online Poker Reviews, ezPoker News. Comments: none
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Mike Matusow
Posted: October 27th, 2006 under Poker Players. Comments: 1
Michael (Mike) “The Mouth” Matusow (born April 30, 1968 in Los Angeles, California) is an American professional poker player, residing in Henderson, Nevada.
Matusow got his nickname of “The Mouth” because he loves to talk at the table. Some consider him one of the true entertainers in the game. Others consider him one of the most annoying players in the game. He is known in the poker world for his habit of making spectacular misjudgments (known as “Mike Matusow Blow-ups” or “Mike Matusow Meltdowns”) when on the verge of victory.
Matusow’s successes include being a 2-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, and the winner of the 2005 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions.
In October 2004, Matusow made his first World Poker Tour (WPT) final table at the UltimateBet Aruba Classic, earned $250,000 for 3rd place. In 2006, he finished runner-up to Tony G in the WPT Bad Boys of Poker II in heads-up play.
Matusow appeared in Poker Superstars III, where he made it to the final 8 players. He also appeared in the second season of High Stakes Poker.
In September 2006, Mike made his debut on the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Barcelona. However, he did not go very far as he busted during the first day.
As of 2006, his total live tournament winnings exceed $4,190,000.
He plays online poker under the following aliases: ”mrpokejoke” (PokerStars); and “Mike Matusow” (Full Tilt Poker, where he is also a member of “Team Full Tilt”).
Arrest and Release:
In September 2002, Matusow held a party in a VIP booth of The Palms, providing free ecstacy to friends. He was introduced to undercover narcotic agent Mike Fento, who claimed he was involved in an organized crime family in Chicago that planned to open a strip club.
Matusow claims that Fento got him involved in money laundering and asked him to score drugs for him. Matusow later discovered from one of his dealers that Fento was an agent, but was arrested at his house on September 25 2003 for “selling and trafficking controlled substances.” The police offered to allow him to wear a wire to help them secure evidence on a nightclub owner, but Matusow refused as the person was connected to organized crime and could have had him killed.
Matusow served six months from September 2004 to April 2005. During his time in prison, Matusow lost his $250,000 winnings from his WPT final table on sports betting. John Juanda was one of the few poker players who visited him. Upon his release, Phil Hellmuth Jr loaned him $5,000 to start up a new bankroll. At the 2005 WSOP, Matusow was running well in the first open preliminary event, when he began to feel depressed and suicidal on the second day. His psychiatrist indicated to him this was due to his Depakote medication not being administered whilst he was in jail. (He is also prescribed Zoloft and Ritalin.) He went on to lose the majority of the $750,000 bankroll he had built up from Hellmuth’s original loan and even got friends to take away his keyboard and mouse so he could not play online poker.
On ESPN’s telecast of the World Series of Poker, Matusow claimed that the arrest had profoundly changed his view on life and made him realize how lucky he was.
Learn more about matusow : official website | Full Tilt Poker
David Williams
Posted: October 26th, 2006 under Poker Players. Comments: none
David (Dave) Anthony Williams (born June 9, 1980 in Arlington, Texas) is a professional poker and Magic: The Gathering player. He is currently a student of Economics at Southern Methodist University.
Williams was taught to play no-limit Texas Hold’em tournaments by future WSOP superstar and two-time bracelet winner Eric Froehlich and then mentored in poker by Marcel Lüske, with whom they both had a mutual friend in Holland, Noah Boeken.
Williams’s poker success was capped at the 2004 World Series of Poker. He qualified through an online poker site and made it to the finals of the main event, ultimately finishing second to Greg Raymer, but still winning $3.5 million for the runner-up prize. His second-place finish is the best ever by an African American in a WSOP Main Event, besting Phil Ivey’s 10th place finish a year earlier.
Four months later, he finished second at the Borgata Open World Poker Tour where he collected $573,800. David Williams was accepted into the Team Bodog after his exceptional performance at the 2004 World Series of Poker, where he enjoys the company of other high profile poker players such as Josh Arieh and Evelyn Ng.
In March 2006, Williams made a second WPT final table, finishing 4th for $280,000. Two months later he made another WPT final table, again finishing 4th.
As of 2006, his total live tournament winnings exceed $5,400,000.
more links about David Williams: WPT online profil
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