Best known for his role as Captain Rafe McCawley in the movie ‘Pearl Harbor’, Ben Affleck (Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt ) is an acclaimed American actor, director, producer as well as a writer. He is winner of both Academy and golden Globe awards for outstanding screenplay of the movie ‘Good Will Hunting’. [...]
Sarge Ferris is a professional poker player born on Dec 1 1928, in the city of Waterville in Maine State, United States. His father was an immigrant from Lebanon and was employed in the railroad. Surge was brought up in poverty during the peak of depression. To meet the family’s [...]
John Esposito is a professional poker player from America, who succeeded in the WSOP bracelet in the Limit Hold’em. He is an expert player with the credit of having twenty five money finishes at the WSOP (World Series of Poker) as well as 5 final tables and 6 cashes in [...]
A recent addition to the names of first time gold bracelet winners at the World Series of Poker, is that of Ronnie Bardah, who took down the event #40 – Limit Hold’em Six Handed on June 23, 2012 in the 43rd Annual World Series of Poker in the Rio All-Suite [...]
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The poker industry was not surprised with the move of the 2012 World Series of Poker shuffling up the many Player of the Year races. After the shuffle, many POY races holding higher or lower ranking observed a surprising move in their rankings. Former World Champion Jonathan Duhamel, though, cashed [...]
On the 31 day of WSOP, Rocco Palumbo, aged 23, was one of the survivors of the final day of Event#44. Despite having a small chip stack, Rocco was positive that he would come up with something big on this day. Then event was $1,000 No Limit Holdem and more [...]
Antonio Esfandiari has stunned the entire poker world by taking home $18 million this year. By achieving this remarkable feat Esfandiari has set a new benchmark for poker players to reach! This is by far the biggest prize in the history of poker and not many can achieve such a [...]
Scotty Nguyen is a Vietnamese American professional poker with 5 WSOP titles under his belt. Scotty Nguyen was born as the eldest of thirteen siblings, in Nha Trang, in war ravaged Vietnam. When Nguyen was eleven years old, he ran to Taiwan and took shelter in an expatriate camp, waiting [...]
Global poker index rates the standings of top 300 live tournament players every week. The results of the eleven tournaments throughout the specific year are evaluated to gauge a player’s rank. Six tournaments from early January to late June and five tournaments from early July to late December that have [...]
The prize value of $798,675 goes to none other than the world’s best poker player, Nick Grippo, who garbbed PokerStars grand event, Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). With an indication of sharp rise in his career of poker gaming, Nick has been a regular champion at the SCOOP event, [...]
