Archive for the ‘Player Profiles’ Category

In Part 1 of this series I detailed two poker players who I consider to be in the Top 5 Most Hated People in Poker. In the conclusion of this series I will list three players who are light years ahead of Sorel Mizzi, Jamie Gold, and Dutch Boyd in terms of being hated.

These are people with really bad reputations in the poker world –some wholly deserved, some partially deserved—who have very little in the way of supporters defending their actions. So without any further buildup here are my first two choices for the five most hated people in poker:

After a short-lived retirement of less than one year (actually about 7 months), 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Peter Eastgate has announced he will be returning to poker, and even more surprising is that he will once again be sponsored by PokerStars!

There are some players who just have something about them; they are a notch above the competition. These are the types of players who could, one day, be regarded as the best ever. There are only a few who fall into this elite category, and they have proven their abilities over very significant sample sizes.

After letting their long-standing contracts with Annie Duke and Phil Hellmuth expire at the tail-end of 2010, UB Poker needed to do something big in order to fill those sizable shoes, and what they did was sign one of the most elusive poker pros in the world, Prahlad Friedman.

In this series I will take a look at three up and coming players you should keep your eye on in 2011. If you haven’t heard of these three, trust me, by the end of 2011 you will! These players are the next group of young talent like 2010’s Tome Marchese, Faraz Jaka, and Vanessa Selbst.

In this series I take a look at three up and coming players you should keep your eye on in 2011. If you haven’t heard of these players, trust me, by the end of 2011 you will! This is the next group of young talent like 2010’s Tome Marchese, Faraz Jaka, and Vanessa Selbst.

In this series I will take a look at three up and coming players you should keep your eye on in 2011. If you haven’t heard of these three players, trust me, by the end of 2011 you will! These players are the next group of young talent like 2010’s Tome Marchese, Faraz Jaka, and Vanessa Selbst.

Ilari Sahamies, known as Ziigmund in the online poker world, is one of the highest-profile players in the game. This player profile takes a look at Sahamies’ background, personal life, and poker career. We also inform you of where you can watch Ziigmund play online, or even play against him.

Erik Seidel became a poker legend when he was immortalized in the cult poker-movie classic, Rounders. Unfortunately, the movie portrays Seidel as a patsy, but the reality is that Seidel has gone on to rival any other poker player in career accomplishments.