WSOP Academy Poker Instructors
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Poker Pro Annie Duke
Career Earnings: $ 4,245,549
Tournament of Champions: Beat out 5 of the world's best poker players to win $2 million.
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Poker pro Phil Hellmuth
Career Earnings: $ 10,901,494
Poker Brat: While his on-camera antics have given Hellmuth this nickname, his 11 WSOP bracelets make him arguably the best no limit hold'em poker tournament player in history.
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Poker pro Greg Raymer
Career Earnings: $6,850,340
Laying Down the Law: Raymer is a former corporate patent attorney from Stonington, Connecticut.
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Poker pro Phil Gordon
Career Earnings: $ 2,200,828
Little Green Book: Gordon has written one of the most popular poker strategy books on the market as well as contributing his vast poker knowledge to several teaching DVDs.
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Poker pro Mark Seif
Career Earnings: $ 3,167,209
The Shark: Known for his aggressive style of playing, Seif picked up his nickname as a prosecutor with the Los Angeles District Attorney's office.
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Poker pro Howard Lederer
Career Earnings: $ 4,918,880
Checkmate: Lederer found his first game of poker in the back room of a chess club, got hooked and is now known as the "Professor of Poker."
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Tells expert Joe Navarro
Spycatcher: 25 years as a counterterrorist expert has made Navarro the authority on non-verbal communication, that's poker tells to you.
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Poker pro Mark Kroon
Career Earnings: $242,591
A resident of Madison, Wisconsin, he's been playing poker for almost 20 years there in a little joint called the Players Sports Bar. It was in that very joint, in fact, that he met Madison's other favorite poker son, Phil Hellmuth, and while Phil went on to, you know, other things, Mark decided that he liked his home-away-from-home game so much that he bought the bar and has owned it ever since.
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Poker pro Annette Obrestad
Career Earnings: $3,422,522
"Annette_15" Annette Obrestad started her poker career online when she was only fifteen years old using the online screen-name. She is the youngest person ever to win a World Series of Poker bracelet.
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Poker pro Gavin Griffin
Career Earnings: $4,531,379
Triple Crown: Only player to win a WSOP bracelet, EPT event and WPT event.
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Mindset expert Sam Chauhan
"That's What You Had?":: Chauhan teaches poker players how to create a powerful poker mindset for tournaments or cash games and how to get other players to put you on the wrong hand.
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Poker pro Bernard Lee
Career Earnings: $1,394,054
Family Love: On his way to a 13th place finish at the 2005 WSOP Main Event - which earned him $400,000 - Bernard could be seen kissing the picture of his kids before every level.
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Poker pro Mark Gregorich
Career Earnings: $ 1,214,404
The Bulldog: Gregorich's poker instruction talent came shining through when he coached baseball great Orel "The Bulldog" Hershiser to the Elite 8 of the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
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Poker pro Michael Gracz
Career Earnings: $3,066,352
Nine at a Time: His advice for tournament players is not to let big numbers discourage you. Some tournaments have 30 people some have 300. Regardless, you can only play nine at a time.
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Poker pro Ali Nejad
Nejad is best known as the off-screen announcer on the NBC's Poker After Dark and the National Heads-Up Poker Championship. But he has done it all: low limit player, dealer, prop player, online player, and finally, high limit player, giving him a unique perspective on the world of poker.
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Poker pro Brad Booth
Career Earnings: $ 716,774
$200-$400: A cash game specialist, this is Booth's limit of choice and what he can usually be found playing at the Bellagio.
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Poker pro Kenny Tran
Career Earnings: $ 2,075,207
Sick Call: Tran earned this nickname for making uncanny decisions at the poker table. What may be even sicker are the five figure amounts he was rumored to take home on a daily basis from cash games in California.
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Poker pro Paul Wasicka
Career Earnings: $ 7,520,859
Face Off: Wasicka took home $500,000 for winning the 2007 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
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Poker pro Andy Bloch
Career Earnings: $ 4,027,048
21: Andy was a member of the famed M.I.T. Blackjack Team.
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Poker pro Shawn Rice
Career Earnings: $ 409,426
Learned to play poker from the legendary Amarillo Slim and is also known as "WestTexasMan".
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Poker pro Erica Schoenberg
Career Earnings: $ 710,161
Nicknamed “The Hit Woman” is a former professional blackjack player, trained in blackjack by the MIT blackjack team.
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Poker Pro Rafe Furst
Career Earnings: $529,404
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Poker pro Tom Schneider
Career Earnings: $1,621,720
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