Howard Lederer

Howard made big strides in his game when he started to play at the Mayfair Club in New York. He became part of a circle of world-class games players who were the first to experiment with No-Limit Hold 'em when it was introduced in New York City. He concentrated on cash games until 2002, when WPT tournaments became monthly events. His game continued to improve and he earned his first of two Hall of Fame titles when he won the $2,500 No-Limit Deuce to Seven Draw event at the 1994 Hall of Fame Poker Classic. A year later, Howard earned his second title by defending his Deuce to Seven Draw title at the 1995 Hall of Fame Poker Classic. After five more years of hard work, Howard won the first of his two gold bracelets in the $5,000 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo event at the 2000 WSOP. A year later, he won his second gold bracelet in the $5,000 Deuce to Seven event at the 2001 WSOP. Howard won his first WPT Championship title in at Foxwoods in November of 2002,. In March of 2003, Howard won his second WPT Championship title in the $5,000 Limit Hold 'em event on The Poker Million cruise Nowadays, Howard enjoys providing commentary and analysis on FullTiltPoker. Net's Learn from the Pros and FSN's Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament, lending credence to his nickname, "The Professor."

Phil Gordon

Phil graduated from Georgia Tech in 1991 with a degree in Computer Science.Gordon joined a start-up technology company as the first employee. This company was later bought by a larger company and Phil used the money he gained from this to travel the world, visiting 50 countries on 6 different continents. Phil made his mark in the poker world in 2001, when he finished 4th in the World Series of Poker Main Event, winning $400,000. The following year Phil made two final tables at the World Series of Poker. Phil earned 6th place in Pot-Limit Hold'em and a 3rd place finish in Omaha 8/Better. Later in 2002, Phil played in the professional division of the World Poker Tour's inaugural tournament in Aruba, where he won the professional division and $250,000. In 2004, Phil won the World Poker Tour's "Bay 101 Shooting Stars" tournament by knocking out two opponents on one hand to win the $360,000 first prize. There were also prizes for knocking out certain poker pros during the tournament, and Phil won a bounty on the final hand, as one of the two players he knocked out was the 2003 WSOP Main Event champion, Chris Moneymaker. Phil is the author of several poker books, including "Poker: The Real Deal" and "Phil Gordon's Little Green Book: Lessons and Teachings in No Limit Hold'em." Phil has also made a DVD, "Final Table Poker." For several years, Phil Gordon provided poker commentary for Bravo channel's Celebrity Poker Showdown. He is a huge supporter of the Cancer Research and Prevention Organization.Phil Gordon is also a member of the FullTilt Poker
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Andy Bloch

Andy has won over $2,800,000 playing poker tournaments. In 2006, he finished 2nd for over $1 million in the first $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E tournament at the World Series of Poker, after the longest recorded heads up battle in WSOP history, where he had Chip Reese all-in 4 different times. Later in 2006, Andy won the Pro Am Poker Equalizer, which airs in early 2007. Andy has had multiple WSOP final table appearances, two WPT final tables and eight WPT money finishes, plus another Ultimate Poker Challenge win and three other UPC final tables. Other wins include the 2002 Seven-Card Stud event at the World Poker Finals, and the 2004 $1,000 No-Limit Hold 'em Hot Tex tournament at the Hard Rock Casino in Las Vegas. Andy started playing card games at a very young age with family and friends. He started playing weekly tournaments while continuing his career as an engineer.  Andy graduated from Harvard Law School and was also a member of the famed M.I.T. Blackjack Team. While in school he would always take time off to play at the World Series of Poker. Andy chose not to practice law after passing the bar, instead opting to take advantage of the poker craze and pursue his life’s passion. 

Brad “Yukon” Booth

Considered by many poker superstars to be “the best unknown player in the world”-a label first bestowed by Phil Hellmuth on Card Player's “The Circuit” radio show, Canadian Brad "Yukon" Booth has firmly established himself amongst poker's elite players. Long a mainstay in the biggest cash games in Las Vegas casinos, Brad plays in the staggering side action (including $200-$400 No Limit Hold 'Em) amongst the world's top players with the likes of Phil Laak, Daniel Negreanu, Antonio Esfandiari, Barry Greenstein, and Johnny Chan. While maintaining a residence at Bellagio for the past year, Booth has recently expanded upon his poker-playing repertoire to include tournament play, with results equally impressive to his consistent dominance in side games. Most notably, Booth played his way to a third-place finish in the World Poker Tour's Mandalay Bay Championship, earning himself a hefty payday of nearly $320,000, as well as finishing 9th in the 2007 NBC National Heads Up Championship against one of the toughest field's ever assembled. Brad can be seen regularly on NBC's Poker After Dark and GSN's High Stakes Poker.

Annie Duke

Born and raised in Concord, New Hampshire, Annie Duke grew up in a family who had cards and competition in the blood. In a home where card playing was the glue that held the family together, everybody not only wanted to win but needed to win. In 1994, at the suggestion of her brother, famed poker player Howard Lederer, Duke tried her hand at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. She ended up placing 13th in her first tournament, knocking her brother out of play. After winning 70K in her first month of competition, Duke and her husband made the move to Las Vegas so she could pursue poker professionally. Over the course of the next decade, Duke established herself as one of the best poker players in the world. In 2004, Duke beat out an assembly of 234 players in the WSOP $2000 buy-in Omaha Hi/Lo Split and won her first WSOP bracelet. In August of the same year, Duke knocked out 8 of the worlds' greatest poker legends and won $2 million in the No-Limit Texas Hold'em winner-take-all, invitation-only WSOP Tournament of Champions, established by ESPN and Harrah's Entertainment. Poker aside, Duke's autobiography, Annie Duke: How I raised, folded, bluffed, flirted, cursed and won millions at the World Series of Poker, hit shelves in mid-September 2005 and is still a huge hit. Written in conjunction with David Diamond, the autobiography weaves the struggles of Annie's life side-by-side with her struggles to achieve her first WSOP bracelet. She also worked with NBC to develop and produce a sitcom based on her life as a single mother of four who plays professional poker. While doing all this, she still enjoyed a successful family life raising her four children: Maud, Leo, Lucy and Nelly.

Scott Fischman

Scott was born in Langhorne, Pennsylvania in 1980 and moved to Las Vegas in 1992. Once in Vegas, Scott caught the poker bug and began playing with his friends as often as possible. Scott worked as a dealer at the Mirage as soon as he turned 21, and he claims dealing was a major factor in improving his overall game. In Scott's first major tournament he placed fourth and has been finding himself consistently in the money ever since. Scott is one of a group of six young players (all born after 1980) that call themselves 'The Crew' and made a name for themselves by winning three bracelets at the 2004 WSOP ' Fischman being responsible for two of them - first place finishes in the $1,500 No Limit Hold 'em event and the $2,000 H.O.R.S.E. event worth $420,000 combined and 5th place in the 2005 National Heads-Up Poker Championship worth $75,000.

Joe Hachem

Joe Hachem was born in Lebanon. At the age of six, he and his family and moved to Melbourne, Australia, where he has resided ever since. Married, with four children, family has always been the focal point of Joe's life. Joe spent 13 years in a successful chiropractic practice. However, he developed a rare condition that prevented him from using his hands to do his job. Unable to continue in his regular profession, Joe took on as a mortgage broker and started looking more closely at poker. What was once a hobby quickly became a passion and in the mid-1990s, he started to look at the poker more seriously. Like many a poker player, Joe harbored dreams of competing in the World Series of Poker. Early in the 2005 WSOP, he played a $1000 no limit event, placed tenth, and pocketed $28,000. With the money in his pocket and a new confidence, Joe peeled off $10,000 and bought into the 2005 WSOP main event. The rest of the story is now enshrined into poker history as Joe won the 2005 WSOP Main Event and $7.5 Million dollars. Since winning the Main Event in 2005, Joe has cashed nine times in poker tournaments worldwide, including a first place finish at the 2006 Five Diamond World Poker Classic and second place at the 2006 WSOP No Limit Hold'em Shorthanded event.

Phil Hellmuth Jr.

Widely considered the most recognizable face in poker, Phil Hellmuth is a 11- Time World Series of Poker Champion. The youngest World Champion ever at 24 years old, Phil's credits include: New York Times Best Selling Author of Playing Like the Pros, and Bad Beats and Lucky Draws; Author of Phil Hellmuth's Million Dollar Poker System DVD, and Card Player Magazine Feature Contributor. Most recently, Phil won the inaugural NBC National Heads-Up Championship, finished 3rd at the 2005 WSOP Tournament of Champions and recently broke the record for career cash finishes at the WSOP.

Joe Navarro (ret.), FBI

Joe Navarro, M. A. is a 25 year veteran Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who specialized in studying and interpreting the behavior of spies. A skill which he continues to teach to the intelligence community and others. He is considered one of a few elite experts in the world in decoding nonverbal behavior and in interviewing. He has used these skills to teach thousands of professionals how to improve their observation and decoding skills in the nuanced arena of nonverbal communications. The author of over 15 journal articles and three books, Joe Navarro can help you to decipher the “hidden tells” of poker

Alex Outhred

Alex “The Insider” Outhred is a professional poker player and a distinguished poker instructor. Alex, a regular in the local Los Angeles poker scene, parlayed his success in the cash games and cashed at his first WSOP event in 2005. Soon thereafter, Alex won a $1000 satellite into the WPT Mandalay Bay 2006 event and finished in 4th place earning $184,000 and televised final table appearance.  Alex was also an associate producer for three seasons with the World Poker Tour where Alex viewed and recorded each hand at every televised final table.  This experience gave Alex an unprecedented insight into high level poker strategy.  Alex is a graduate of the University of Michigan and is also a published poet

Greg Raymer

Greg "Fossilman" Raymer is a former corporate patent attorney from Stonington, Connecticut. He turned a $160 online satellite victory into $5 million after winning the 2004 World Series of Poker championship event. Raymer was born in 1964 in Minot, North Dakota. He attended the University of Minnesota Law School, where he earned his degree in 1992. He began gambling on blackjack in the mid-1990s at casinos in the Midwest, and soon realized he could make better money playing poker. He's nicknamed "Fossilman" for his collection of fossils, which he uses as card protectors while playing poker. He sealed his professional status by placing 25th in the 2005 WSOP main event, earning $304,680. Despite being a celebrity, the spokesman for PokerStars has a reputation for being an affable player and is a fan favorite.

Mark Seif

Mark "The Shark" Seif, dubbed so for his super aggressive and cunning style of play, worked as a Prosecutor for the DA's Office in Los Angeles before his career in poker started. His attention was first brought to the game of poker at the age of seven, years before making a name for himself by taking 4th in the World Poker Tour's 2002 Legends of Poker event. Since then he's won two World Series of Poker Bracelets, the 2005 US Poker Championship in 7 Stud, taken several major titles, and earned his place among the superstars of the poker world. Seif, who will be a commentator for the Professional Poker Tour upon its airing, currently resides in Las Vegas, NV

Paul Wasicka

Originally from Dallas, Texas, Paul Wasicka received his first poker experience at an underground tournament in Denver in 2004. Having never played before, he got a 15-minute lesson from his friend, and maybe someone should get that guy a book contract. Wasicka finished ninth out of 100 entrants, and that was enough to hook him. Wasicka began his poker career online, and after building a significant bankroll playing ring games, he turned his attention to tournaments. This young ambitious player already has more than $7.5 million in tournament winnings. His cashes include a second-place finish in the 2006 World Series of Poker main event, which was good for $6.1 million. He finished fourth in the 2007 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic championship event and earned another $455,615 and recently won the 2007 NBC Heads-Up Championship for $500,000. He also made waves during an appearance on GSN's High Stakes Poker.