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  • 1). Player Profile: Lily Elviro  By : Kenneth Bateman
    Lily Elviro - born Aidilily Elviro – was born and raised in Miami, Florida. The 23 year old (born August 12th ) enjoys jet skiing and horse back riding as hobbies but playing poker is her passion. She was indoctrinated into the game at an early age by her family who played Cuban Poker every Sunday night and was finally allowed into the game at the age of sixteen.
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  • 3). Player Profile: Phil Laak  By : Kenneth Bateman
    Phil Laak was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1972, raised in Wellesley, Massachusetts and now lives in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He has a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has worked in several fields before becoming a skilled poker player. Laak is a former engineer, sports bet broker, market speculator, repo man and real estate investor.
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  • 4). Player Profile: Maureen Feduniak  By : Kenneth Bateman
    Originally from England, Maureen “Mo” Feduniak has been a competitive Poker player for over a decade. Her mentor, none other than T. J. Cloutier, no doubt was a major factor in developing Maureen into the fine competitor she is today. T. J. himself has won more than fifty Tournaments world-wide, including a collection of no less than six World Series of Poker Bracelets.
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  • 5). Player Profile: Antonio Esfandiari  By : Kenneth Bateman
    Born Amir Esfandiari on December 8, 1978 in the capital city of Tehran, Iran, this world class Poker player was brought to the United States by his parents when he was nine years old. The family settled in San Jose where Amir attended school. He soon requested his name be changed to Anthony because his school mates thought the name Amir was strange.
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  • 6). Player Profile: Cyndy Violette  By : Kenneth Bateman
    Cyndy Violette, born in Queens, New York on August 19, 1959, is considered one of the most successful female poker players. She became a professional before the entry of so many women into poker play – back when it was still considered a “man’s game”. Cyndy’s family moved to Las Vegas when she was 12 years old and she began playing cards at home with her uncle.
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  • 7). Poker History  By : Kenneth Bateman
    Currently and probably for the foreseeable future, poker remains the world’s most popular card game with legions of poker players, casual and dedicated, amateur and professional. Poker has literally hundreds of variations of which stud, draw and hold’em are most often played. The basics of poker games are pretty much the same. Players are dealt concealed cards or a combination of concealed and face-up cards, or concealed cards to the individual players and face-up community cards for all players use as in hold’em poker games.
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  • 9). Player Profile: Hoyt Corkins  By : Kenneth Bateman
    Hoyt Corkins is one of the more “colorful” professional Poker players, known as much for his aggressive (all-in) playing style as his signature black cowboy hat and dark glasses. His professionalism, however, is in contrast with his Poker playing. At the table, he is soft spoken and well mannered, belying the nicknames bestowed upon him by fellow players: “Mr.
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  • 10). Player Profile: Clonie Gowan  By : Kenneth Bateman
    Her real name is Cycalona Gowen because she was born during a tropical storm. Clonie grew up in Kiowa, Oklahoma and played sports in high school. She ranked seventh in the high jump in track and field and was also a championship-level basketball player. She had looks as well as skill in sports and the pretty young blonde won the Miss Teen McAlester crown in Oklahoma at age fifteen.
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  • 12). The Tell  By : Kenneth Bateman
    A serious poker player learns pretty quickly that studying the strategies of the games and putting these strategies into practice is not all it takes to be a winner. A little bit of psychology and knowing how to read body language is a pretty good asset to have any time you play poker and knowing body language is what “the tell” is all about. A tell is any behavior, physical reaction or subconscious habit a player exhibits when contemplating an action: betting, calling, raising or reacting to another player’s action.
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  • 13). Player Profile: Scotty Nguyen  By : Kenneth Bateman
    Scotty Nguyen, also known as “The Train” and “The Prince of Poker”, was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam in 1962 and escaped from the Communists when he was 14 years old. He spent his first year in the United States living in Chicago and then moved to California where he grew up. Instead of focusing on his school work, he spent a great deal of time learning to play Poker.
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  • 14). The H.O.R.S.E. Tournament  By : Kenneth Bateman
    A tournament within a tournament, the H.O.R.S.E tournament that took place during the current 2006 World Series of Poker at the Rio in Las Vegas ended after three intensive days of competition between some of professional poker’s all-time best players. The tournament attracted 143 players in total and had a World Series of Poker record buy-in of $50,000.
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  • 15). The Changing Face Of Live Tournament Poker  By : Kenneth Bateman
    An all-time record was established at the 2006 World Series of Poker when an impressive 8,773 players registered to compete in the $10,000 buy-in Texas hold ‘em event. At the end of four days of intensive play, the field had been cut to nine remaining players who made it to the final table and would vie for the WSOP Championship. Who were these players? They were not the high profile players that were expected to be at that final table.
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  • 16). Poker - An Overview  By : Kenneth Bateman
    The difference between poker and every other casino game is that poker is not played against the house – it is played against other players. Although the basics of the game are simple – examining your hand and guessing what the other players may have – playing the game well (winning) can involve complex strategies and psychological ploys. There are myriad versions of poker but the basic hierarchy of winning hands is the same: Royal Flush: A, K, Q, J and 10 of the same suit.
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  • 18). Poker Online - Part I  By : Kenneth Bateman
    Poker, in its many variations, is undoubtedly the world’s most popular card game. Face to face poker room games are as popular today as they were when played in turn of the century saloons and riverboats plying the Old Mississippi. World championship poker tournaments and the more recent celebrity poker tournaments are followed internationally and have helped to popularize the game even more.
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  • 19). Player Profile: Phil Hellmuth  By : Kenneth Bateman
    Phil Hellmuth is a well known and controversial poker player. He attended the University of Wisconsin for three years but decided to make poker playing his profession and dropped out of school. Born on July 16, 1964 in Madison, Wisconsin, his stated career goal is “to become the best poker player of all time”. His first step toward this achievement was taken in 1989 when he was 24 years old.
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  • 20). Player Profile: Greg Raymer  By : Kenneth Bateman
    Gregory (Greg) Raymer, also known as “The Fossilman”, is an interesting, multi-faceted character. He was born in Minot, North Dakota in 1964. Greg completed high school in St. Louis, Missouri and majored in Chemistry at the University of Missouri. In 1992, he began practicing as a Patent Attorney after graduating from the University of Minnesota Law School, and Patent Attorney he was for a decade.
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  • 21). Player Profile: Erick Lindgren  By : Kenneth Bateman
    Erick Lindgren brings his naturally competitive nature from playing sports in high school to playing at the Poker tables. Born on August 11, 1976 and raised in the small mountain town of Burney, California, Lindgren excelled in basketball and football. He was an all league quarterback and MVP of his league as a basketball shooting guard. Lindgren attended Butte Junior College but did not graduate since he knew at a young age that his future lay in gambling.
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  • 22). Player Profile: David Sklansky  By : Kenneth Bateman
    David Sklansky was born in Teaneck, New Jersey on December 22 and now lives in Henderson, Nevada which is actually part of the great Las Vegas area. In addition to his Poker playing proficiency, David is known as one of the leading authorities on Poker, Blackjack and gambling in general. His knowledge of gambling comes from practical experience and success as a professional Tournament Poker player of championship caliber.
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  • 23). Player Profile: Phil Ivey  By : Kenneth Bateman
    Phil Ivey, sometimes known as “The Tiger Woods of Poker”, was born in Riverside, California on February 1, 1976. His family moved East to New Jersey when he was three months old and that is where he lived until he became a Poker star. As a child, he played cards with his grandfather who tried to teach him the evils of gambling. This exposure to card playing actually was a motivating factor to young Phil to make gambling his career.
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  • 24). Player Profile: Kathy Liebert  By : Kenneth Bateman
    Kathy Liebert is in her mid-thirties, has been playing poker since 1991 and is one of the female pioneers in the game. She was born in Tennessee, was raised in Long Island, New York and obtained an undergraduate degree in Business and Finance. Kathy had worked at Dun and Bradstreet as a Business Analyst after graduation and considered the stock market as a career for some time.
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  • 25). Player Profile: Howard Lederer  By : Kenneth Bateman
    Howard Lederer was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1965. His father was an English teacher and Howard was used to playing games on a regular basis with his academically-oriented family. When he was in his teens, he was an avid chess player and he moved to New York City at eighteen to indulge his love of the game. He learned to play poker at one of his chess clubs and poker took the place of chess in his life.
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