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Nick Pupillo

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PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #87: $2,500 Mixed Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better 3rd $94,681 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #58: $3,000 Limit Hold’em (6-Handed) 3rd $72,681 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #52: $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw 1st $181,978 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #44: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 201st $5,253 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #37: $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em 144th $4,346 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship 6th $62,255 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #5: $400 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Max 79th $1,853 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #5: $1,500 Dealer’s Choice (6-Handed) 11th $7,842 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #1: $333 No-Limit Hold’em Triple Treys Summer Tip Off 32nd $1,904 The Return - A Borgata Championship Event$2,100 Bounty Event 46th $1,940 2022 MSPT Venetian November$1,600 Main Event 4th $75,017 2022 MSPT Venetian November$1,100 Main Event 48th $2,450 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #46: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 55th $11,991 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #26: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship 10th $18,506 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #13: $1,500 Limit Hold’em 8th $13,789 2022 World Series of Poker[Online] No-Limit Hold’em BIG $500 104th $1,118 2022 World Series of Poker[Online] $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Freezeout 21st $8,720 2022 The Lodge Championship SeriesEvent #15: $1,000 NLH Turbo 2nd $19,478 2021 MSPT South Dakota State Poker Championship$1,100 Main Event 16th $5,675 MSPT Riverside CasinoMSPT Riverside $1,100 Main Event 6th $31,716 2021 Wynn Spring ClassicWynn Spring Classic $1M GTD Championship 50th $9,067 2020 Mid-States Poker Tour Venetian $1,100 Main EventMSPT Venetian $1,100 Main Event 13th $10,566 2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #24: $400 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed 329th $694 2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #12: $500 The BIG 500 No-Limit Hold’em 19th $5,242 2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #11: $500 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo Deepstack 6-Handed 52nd $2,207 2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #10: $600 No-Limit Hold’em MonsterStack 8th $18,367 2020 World Series of Poker Circuit Rio Las Vegas$2,200 High Roller 2nd $55,085 2020 Aussie MillionsA$10,600 Main Event 8th 178,080 AUD 2019 Wynn Winter Classic$5,300 Championship Event 53rd $13,211 2019 MSPT Wisconsin State Poker Championship$1,100 Main Event 17th $6,387 2019 World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw Durant$1,700 Main Event 50th $4,089 2019 World Series of Poker Circuit Harveys Lake Tahoe$1,700 Main Event 7th $19,182 2019 MSPT Michigan State Poker Championship$1,100 Main Event 68th $3,443 2019 World Series of Poker Circuit Horseshoe Southern Indiana$1,700 Main Event 4th $38,145 Heartland Poker Tour Golden Gates$1,650 Main Event 13th $7,733 2019 Borgata Poker OpenWPT Borgata Poker Open $3,500 Championship 7th $100,657 2019 Heartland Poker Tour Ameristar East ChicagoMain Event 53rd $3,238 August 2019 Colorado Poker Championship$1,100 Main Event 23rd $2,881 2019 Hollywood St. LouisMain Event 2nd $98,195 2019 World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw DurantMain Event 73rd $3,101 2019 Heartland Poker Tour Golden Gates CasinoMain Event 7th $19,810 2019 World Series of PokerEvent #69: $1,000 Mini Main Event 155th $4,108 2019 Heartland Poker Tour East ChicagoMain Event 16th $7,192 2019 PokerStars and Monte-CarloCasino EPT1,100 No-Limit Hold’em 4th €16,110 2019 Heartland Poker Tour Golden GatesMain Event 1st $194,478 2018 World Series of PokerEvent #20: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em 20th $14,572 2015 Mid-States Poker Tour FireKeepers CasinoMain Event 21st $2,974 2015 Mid-States Poker Tour TropicanaMain Event 6th $12,099 Hollywood Poker Open Season 3 Columbus Regional Main EventRegional Main Event 2nd $43,512 2015 Mid-States Poker Tour FireKeepers CasinoMain Event 6th $27,031 2015 Mid-States Poker Tour Golden Gates CasinoMain Event 6th $18,845 Hollywood Poker Open Season 3 Toledo Regional Main EventRegional Main Event 23rd $3,168 2014 Mid-States Poker Tour Canterbury ParkMain Event 21st $2,584 2014 Mid-States Poker Tour Meskwaki CasinoMain Event 41st $2,054 2014 Mid-States Poker Tour FireKeepers CasinoMain Event 5th $28,000 2014 Mid-States Poker Tour Ho-Chunk Gaming Wisconsin DellsMain Event 5th $19,805

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Josh Arieh

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Biography Josh Arieh is an American poker player and five-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner. He can be seen on the first season of GGPoker’sGame of Gold, a poker reality competition on the GGPoker YouTube channel. In 2021, he won the WSOP Player of the Year title after cashing eleven times and winning two bracelets for combined cashes of over $1.1 million. Poker Achievements Arieh’s first recorded cash was a bracelet at the 1999 World Series of Poker, winning a $3,000 Limit Hold’em event for $202,800. He followed that up one year later by almost winning another bracelet, but came up just short finishing second in a $1,570 Pot-Limit Omaha event. The largest cash of Arieh’s career came in 2004, when he finished third behind Greg Raymer and David Williams in the 2004 WSOP Main Event. He took home $2,500,000 in winnings. His second bracelet came the following year in a $2,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event for $381,600. In 2009, Arieh finished second in the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic for $952,290. Arieh would cash at the WSOP on numerous occasions during the 2010s, making several final tables but falling just short of picking up another title. A second-place finish in the 2019 $50,000 Poker Players Championship proved that he was a player to contend for major honours once again, and when the WSOP returned in 2021 he quickly showed that was to be the case. He picked up two bracelets and won the Player of the Year title, pipping Phil Hellmuth into second place. “Its just really cool, its weird,” Arieh told PokerNews about his run to WSOP Player of the Year. “My whole life and my career, whatever I do, I build momentum, so when Im going good, Im really good. When Im going bad, I go really bad. It means a lot because my daughters will be really proud.” His third bracelet came in Event #39: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha, with his fourth coming less than two weeks later in Event #66: $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo Championship. In 2023, Arieh picked up a fifth bracelet with a comeback win in the $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship. The victory was a big step towards Hall of Fame consideration for Arieh. “So this is just another step that will give me a chance to maybe be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Poker players were looked at as these backroom hustlers. Like, oh, you’re a poker player, you’re a bad person. You gamble for a living; how do you do that? I’ve said it before; it just gives it a little validity. And to be thought about, the names of people that are one, it would just be insane.” He followed this up with an appearance on the first season of Game of Gold in November of the same year.

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Brian Altman

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Biography Brian Altman is an American poker player. He is a three-time World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event champion. He has also won three WSOP Circuit rings, most recently in February 2022. In June 2022, he won his first WSOP bracelet in the $400 NLHE Online Event for $110,662. Altman started playing poker in high school after watching Chris Moneymaker win the WSOP Main Event. His first WPT title came in 2015 winning the Lucky Hearts Poker Open for $723,000. Three years later he won the tournament again, becoming the first player to win the same WPT Main Event twice. His third title came 18 months later, winning the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Main Event. He was the seventh player to win three WPT titles. He also was named Season 18 WPT Player of the Year.

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Erik Seidel

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Biography Erik Seidel is one of the winningest and best known players in poker history. He is the remaining member of poker’s old generation, but is still able to compete in the modern field collecting poker’s major titles and trophies. Intro Erik Seidel is one of the most recognized faces in poker. With more than $40 million in career winnings, nine World Series of Poker bracelets and one World Poker Tour title, numerous money finishes in all of the world’s major poker tournaments and a place in the Poker Hall of Fame, Seidel is nothing but one of poker’s living legends. Read More: Before the Game: Erik Seidel the Trader (Part One)

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Erik Seidel

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Biography Erik Seidel is one of the winningest and best known players in poker history. He is the remaining member of poker’s old generation, but is still able to compete in the modern field collecting poker’s major titles and trophies. Intro Erik Seidel is one of the most recognized faces in poker. With more than $40 million in career winnings, nine World Series of Poker bracelets and one World Poker Tour title, numerous money finishes in all of the world’s major poker tournaments and a place in the Poker Hall of Fame, Seidel is nothing but one of poker’s living legends. Read More: Before the Game: Erik Seidel the Trader (Part One)

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Mike Watson

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Biography Mike Watson is a Canadian poker player and two-time European Poker Tour (EPT) champion with over $20 million in live tournament earnings. “SirWatts” won his maiden EPT Main Event title in 2016 by taking down the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event for $728,325. Seven years later, Watson won the 2023 EPT Monte Carlo Main Event for $825,731 to become just the third player in poker history to earn live EPT Main Event titles. “It’s an amazing accomplishment,” Watson said after the victory. “You know, winning two main events on the same tour is really hard. And yeah, I just feel really lucky that I was able to pull it off today.” Read More: Mike Watson Becomes Third Player in History to Win Two Live EPT Main Event Titles Watson’s success is far from limited to the European Poker Tour. In 2008, Watson received his biggest career cash and a World Poker Tour (WPT) title by taking down the $15,000 WPT Bellagio Cup IV for $1.7 million. A few years later, Watson took down the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Cannes 50,000 Majestic Roller for $1.3 million. The Canadian has had plenty of other big scores on the high roller circuit, having won a 50,000 High Rollerat 2022 EPT Barcelona for $895,933 and a 2023 Triton Super High Roller Series Vietnam $50,000 Short Deck event for $695,000.

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Alexandre Reard

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Biography Alexandre Reard is a French poker player and Unibet Poker Ambassador. His also a World Series of Poker bracelet-winner. In 2021, he won Event #47: $5,000 Freezeout NLH, defeating Daniel Strelitz heads-up to take home $428,694. “When I saw the river card, it was just an indescribable feeling,” Reard said after the victory. “I was seeing my wife and all my friends crying and exulting on the rail. It’s such a sincere and strong moment!”. The result was the largest of Reard’s career, topping his 2019 EPT Prague National victory that netted him 342,810. 2019 was a good year for Reard, as he finished runner-up in the Unibet Open Sinaia High Roller before winning his second WSOP Circuit ring in Rotterdam later that year.

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Yiannis Liperis

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Biography Yiannis Liperis is a Cypriot poker player with over $2 million in career earnings. He is number one on the Cypriot All Time Money List. The largest cash of his career came in 2019, finished 13th in the PokerStars Players Championship for $261,750. In 2022, he finished fourth in the $5,300 Luxon Pay Mediterranean Poker Party Main Event for $230,000. A regular on the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour, Liperis won GUKPT Blackpool in 2018 and has four other top-four finishes (2nd - Blackpool 2015 & Luton 2018, 3rd - Manchester 2021, 4th - Walsall 2017)

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Justin Bonomo

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Biography Justin ZeeJustin Bonomo is one of the most known poker players in the world and has been a fixture of the super high roller and high roller circuit for a number of years. He currently sits on top of the The Hendon Mob All-Time Money List with over $57 million in live tournament earnings. Intro Justin Bonomo is a professional poker player currently residing in Vancouver, Canada. He is also a well-recognized live and online player known by his alias ZeeJustin. From 2008 to 2010 Bonomo was member of the Bodog Poker online poker site’s team pro. Bonomo has won three World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets throughout his career, most notably triumphing in the $1 million buy-in The Big One for One Drop at the 2018 WSOP for a career best score of $10 million. He has also won over $1 million on the World Poker Tour (WPT) and has also won several titles while playing the European Poker Tour (EPT).

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Michael Rocco

@Global Poker Index Rankings @Nick Pupillo

PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2023 WSOP EuropeEvent #13: 10,350 Main Event NLH European Championship 5th €341,000 2023 WSOP EuropeEvent #8: 25,000 NLH GGMillion 2nd €365,000 2023 WSOP EuropeEvent #6: 5,000 Pot Limit Omaha 13th €12,425 2023 PokerStars EPT Paris1,100 FPS Paris Main Event 103rd €3,460 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure$10,300 PCA Main Event 32nd $33,800 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #70: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event World Championship 94th $73,100 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #65: $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em 55th $10,425 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #53: $5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot Limit Omaha 20th $23,327 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #46: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 78th $10,066 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #29: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw 43rd $2,643 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #23: $3,000 Limit Hold’em 6-Handed 2nd $87,854 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #12: $50,000 High Roller 7th $192,570 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #5: $500 The Housewarming No-Limit Hold’em 662nd $2,160 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #52: $1,000 Seniors Championship 389th $2,344 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #14: $1,500 Seven Card Stud 36th $2,457 MSPT Venetian $1,100 Main Event ($1.5M GTD)MSPT Venetian $1,100 Main Event ($1.5M GTD) 25th $13,193 2021 Mid-States Poker Tour Venetian2021 Mid-States Poker Tour Venetian 103rd $2,251 2020 Mid-States Poker Tour Venetian $1,600 Main EventMSPT Venetian $1,600 Main Event 19th $11,871 2019 Wynn Winter Classic$5,300 Championship Event 1st $540,800 2019 World Series of PokerEvent #75: $1,000+111 Little One for One Drop No-Limit Hold’em 21st $23,825 2018 World Series of PokerEvent #65: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT - World Championship 773rd $18,340 2018 World Series of PokerEvent #72: $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed 15th $6,899 2018 World Series of PokerEvent #48: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em MONSTER STACK 460th $3,605 2018 World Series of PokerEvent #37: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em 54th $5,462 2018 World Series of PokerEvent #7: $565 COLOSSUS No-Limit Holdem 1067th $1,085 2017 World Series of PokerEvent #63: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em 13th $12,663 2017 World Series of PokerEvent #25: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 96th $1,690 2017 World Series of PokerEvent #20: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em MILLIONAIRE MAKER 626th $3,105 2017 World Series of PokerEvent #5: THE COLOSSUS III - $565 No-Limit Hold’em 192nd $5,199 2017 PokerStars Championship Bahamas$25,750 High Roller 3rd $409,020 2016 PokerStars EPT Season 13 Prague5,300 Main Event 148th €9,180 2016 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure$5,300 Main Event 33rd $17,420 Hollywood Poker Open Season 3 Championship Event$2,500 Championship Event 24th $10,180 2014 World Series of PokerEvent #39: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 53rd $9,993 2014 World Series of PokerEvent #35: $5,000 Eight-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 17th $18,095 2013 World Series of PokerEvent #44: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 3rd $229,500 2013 World Series of PokerEvent #30: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em 26th $10,225 2013 World Series of PokerEvent #27: $3,000 No Limit Hold’em (Mixed Max) 61st $5,018 2013 World Series of PokerEvent #3: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em 195th $2,335 2011 World Series of PokerEvent #40: $,000 No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed 75th $9,289 2011 World Series of PokerEvent #32: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em 233rd $3,054 2011 World Series of PokerEvent #10: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed 66th $5,313 2010-11 World Series of Poker Circuit - Harrah’s ChesterMain Event 10th $7,054 2010 World Series of PokerEvent #21: $1,500 Seven Card Stud 23rd $4,241 2009 World Series of PokerEvent 16 - $1,500 Seven Card Stud 12th $7,522

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Josh Reichard

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Biography Josh Reichard is a poker pro from Janesville, Wisconsin who was inducted into the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Hall of Fame in September 2022, becoming just the 10th member of the club. He won an MSPT event in 2013 in Milwaukee and has 26 cashes on tour overall. Reichard has over $2 million in lifetime live tournament cashes, according to Hendon Mob. His greatest claim to fame isn’t his MSPT Hall of Fame honor. It’s his prowess in World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit events. In September 2022, he won the $1,700 buy-in WSOP Circuit Main Event at the Horseshoe in Council Bluffs, Iowa for over $120,000. In doing so, he earned his 13th career Circuit ring, putting him just one spot shy of record-holder Maurice Hawkins. Reichard has become one of the top mid-stakes live tournament players in the United States. In fact, he’s sixth on Wisconsin’s all-time money list, although it will be tough to catch up to the G.O.A.T. Phil Hellmuth, who has 16 WSOP bracelets and $28 million in earnings. He’s also had some success in World Series of Poker bracelet events in Las Vegas $191,000 in total cashes. One of the few remaining missing accomplishments on his impressive live tournament resume is a WSOP bracelet.

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Andrew Lichtenberger

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Biography Andrew Lichtenberger is an American poker player and WSOP bracelet winner. He won his WSOP bracelet in 2016, taking down Event #52: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em for $569,158. “It feels amazing to win,” Lichtenberger said at the time. “I’ve been playing the World Series since 2009, and I’ve been watching it since I was a kid when I saw Chris Moneymaker win, so it feels amazing.” WPT Legends Dunst and Lichtenberger Discuss Online Poker

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Andrew Lichtenberger

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Biography Andrew Lichtenberger is an American poker player and WSOP bracelet winner. He won his WSOP bracelet in 2016, taking down Event #52: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em for $569,158. “It feels amazing to win,” Lichtenberger said at the time. “I’ve been playing the World Series since 2009, and I’ve been watching it since I was a kid when I saw Chris Moneymaker win, so it feels amazing.” WPT Legends Dunst and Lichtenberger Discuss Online Poker

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Justin Saliba

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Biography Justin Saliba is an American poker player and WSOP bracelet winner. He won the 2021 WSOP Online Event #15: $5,300 High Roller Freezout for $253,800. From Bust to High Roller Champion Justin Jsaliba2 Salibas Road to WSOP Gold The following year, he finished fourth in Event #65: $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em at the 2022 WSOP for $194,525. PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2024 PokerStars EPT Paris3,000 Mystery Bounty 41st €5,300 2023 WSOP ParadiseEvent #10: $5,000 Main Event Championship 60th $32,200 2023 PokerStars EPT Barcelona50,000 Super High Roller Second Chance 5th €100,600 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #76: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship 781st $25,000 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #79: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em 151st $5,471 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #13: $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Championship 33rd $12,036 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #8: $3,200 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller 32nd $8,491 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #23: $50,000 High Roller (8-Handed) 19th $81,983 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #16: $25,000 High Roller (8-Handed) 18th $56,931 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #13: $600 Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack 299th $1,202 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #3: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack 101st $2,664 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #2: $500 No-Limit Hold’em Bankroll Builder 230th $1,311 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #3: $1,000 Mystery Millions 2055th $1,160 2023 PokerStars EPT Paris25,000 No-Limit Hold’em III 6th €65,900 2023 PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold’em Championship2023 PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold’em Championship 134th $40,300 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure$10,300 PCA Main Event 82nd $22,300 The Return - A Borgata Championship Event$5,300 The Return ($3,000,000 Guaranteed) 5th $304,629 2022 WSOP OnlineEvent #32: $10,000 NLH Super High Roller 8-Max 1st $154,752 2022 WSOP OnlineEvent #30: $5,300 High Roller 10th $10,625 2022 WSOP OnlineEvent #29: $1,000 NLH Championship 45th $2,829 2022 WSOP OnlineEvent #5: $500 NLH Turbo Deepstack 52nd $1,321 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #86: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Championship 60th $16,000 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #78: $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em 113th $5,290 2022 World Series of PokerOnline $3,200 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller 8-Max 24th $8,868 2022 World Series of PokerOnline $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Bracelet Championship 74th $2,657 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #65: $3,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em 4th $194,525 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #53: $5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot Limit Omaha 58th $11,694 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #37: $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER No-Limit Hold’em 511th $4,172 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #21: $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold’em 24th $38,231 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #14: $1,500 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 259th $2,630 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #11: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack 697th $1,050 2022 World Series of PokerOnline No-Limit Hold’em BIG $500 199th $799 2022 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo5,300 Main Event 15th €46,890 2022 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo1,100 FPS Main Event 84th €3,660 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #88: $5,000 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 54th $10,076 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #68: $1,111 Little One for One Drop 564th $1,779 2021 MPT Venetian$1,600 Main Event 66th $4,777 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #26: $1,000 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em 52nd $3,779 2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #15: $5,300 NLH High Roller Freezeout 1st $253,800 2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #13: $1,000 NLH Freezeout 83rd $1,414 2021 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #4: $500 NLH Super Turbo 58th $1,071 MSPT Venetian $1,600 Main Event ($2M GTD)MSPT Venetian $1,600 Main Event ($2M GTD) 196th $3,725 2021 US Poker OpenEvent #3: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6th $46,200 2021 WPT Online Series by partypokerEvent #5: $10,300 High Roller, $1m GTD 11th $26,199 2021 GG Spring FestivalGGSF Super MILLION$ ME-H: $10,300, $10M GTD 110th $24,762 2021 Wynn Spring ClassicWynn Spring Classic $1M GTD Championship 26th $13,838 MSPT Poker Bowl V at Venetian Las VegasMSPT Poker Bowl V Main Event 46th $3,611 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #78: $1,000 Turbo No Limit Hold’em 6-Handed 199th $2,358 2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #22: $500 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo Deepstack 233rd $711 2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #21: $777 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed 147th $1,239 2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #18: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed Turbo DeepStack 13th $7,876 2020 WSOP.com Online Bracelet EventsEvent #3: $400 No-Limit Hold’em 95th $1,054

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Sam Soverel

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Biography Sam Soverel is an American poker player from Florida who has amassed $18.2 million in live tournament earnings, putting him third on the state’s all-time money list behind Sean Winter and Jason Mercier. Just a month after getting his first tournament cash, Soverel finished second in the 2011 $3,500 WPT Jacksonville Main Event for $187,762. Soverel quickly moved up in stakes and now primarily plays a high roller schedule. In October 2016, Soverel took down a $100,000 Aria Super High Roller for just over a million, his biggest tournament score to date. Soverel has had great success at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), finishing second in the 2019 $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller for $994,072. The same year, Soverel finished third in another WSOP $50,000 High Roller for $640,924. At the 2021 WSOP, Soverel finished third in the $100,000 High Roller event to take home $830,992. Soverel earned his maiden WSOP bracelet in 2016 when he took down a $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event for $185,317. In addition to the bracelet, Soverel has 15 WSOP cashes to make up $3.1 million in earnings. Soverel has also done well for himself on the World Poker Tour (WPT), racking up three final table appearances, 11 cashes and $963,608 despite not yet having a WPT title to his name.

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Sam Soverel

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Biography Sam Soverel is an American poker player from Florida who has amassed $18.2 million in live tournament earnings, putting him third on the state’s all-time money list behind Sean Winter and Jason Mercier. Just a month after getting his first tournament cash, Soverel finished second in the 2011 $3,500 WPT Jacksonville Main Event for $187,762. Soverel quickly moved up in stakes and now primarily plays a high roller schedule. In October 2016, Soverel took down a $100,000 Aria Super High Roller for just over a million, his biggest tournament score to date. Soverel has had great success at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), finishing second in the 2019 $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller for $994,072. The same year, Soverel finished third in another WSOP $50,000 High Roller for $640,924. At the 2021 WSOP, Soverel finished third in the $100,000 High Roller event to take home $830,992. Soverel earned his maiden WSOP bracelet in 2016 when he took down a $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event for $185,317. In addition to the bracelet, Soverel has 15 WSOP cashes to make up $3.1 million in earnings. Soverel has also done well for himself on the World Poker Tour (WPT), racking up three final table appearances, 11 cashes and $963,608 despite not yet having a WPT title to his name.

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Sam Soverel

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Biography Sam Soverel is an American poker player from Florida who has amassed $18.2 million in live tournament earnings, putting him third on the state’s all-time money list behind Sean Winter and Jason Mercier. Just a month after getting his first tournament cash, Soverel finished second in the 2011 $3,500 WPT Jacksonville Main Event for $187,762. Soverel quickly moved up in stakes and now primarily plays a high roller schedule. In October 2016, Soverel took down a $100,000 Aria Super High Roller for just over a million, his biggest tournament score to date. Soverel has had great success at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), finishing second in the 2019 $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller for $994,072. The same year, Soverel finished third in another WSOP $50,000 High Roller for $640,924. At the 2021 WSOP, Soverel finished third in the $100,000 High Roller event to take home $830,992. Soverel earned his maiden WSOP bracelet in 2016 when he took down a $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event for $185,317. In addition to the bracelet, Soverel has 15 WSOP cashes to make up $3.1 million in earnings. Soverel has also done well for himself on the World Poker Tour (WPT), racking up three final table appearances, 11 cashes and $963,608 despite not yet having a WPT title to his name.

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Cary Katz

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Biography Cary Katz is an American businessman and high stakes poker player who founded PokerGO, a streaming service that offers coverage of various high roller tournaments and World Series of Poker (WSOP) events. Katz, who almost exclusively plays high rollers, has won an incredible $34.5 million in live tournament earnings to put him eighth on the all-time money list. Originally from Georgia, Katz earned his first tournament cash in 2004 at Festa al Lago II in Las Vegas, where he finished 24th in United States the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Championship for $10,381. Five years later, Katz won nearly quadruple that when he finished in 159th place in the 2009 WSOP Main Event for $40,288, a deep run for the Georgia businessman.

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Calvin Anderson

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Biography Calvin Anderson is an American poker player and four-time bracelet winner with over $3.5 million in live tournament earnings. Anderson’s first cash dates back to 2009 when he finished sixth in the European Poker Tour (EPT) London 50 No-Limit Hold’em - Shootout for $2,468. Five years later, Anderson won his first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet by taking down the 2014 $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo for $190,538. He won a second WSOP bracelet in 2018 when he won the $10,000 Razz Championship for $309,220. Anderson came close to winning another bracelet two years earlier when he finished runner-up in the 2018 $1,111 No Limit Hold’em Little One for One Drop for a career-best $324,597. After winning two live bracelets, he grabbed a pair of online bracelets in the 2023 WSOP Online on WSOP.com, first by winning WSOP Online Bracelet #4 - $1,000 PLO 6-Max for $49,782 before going on to win WSOP Online Bracelet #7 - $5,300 NLH Super High Roller 6-Max for $141,400. The Oklahoma native has also had success at the EPT, including a runner-up finish in the 2014 EPT Monte Carlo FPS High Roller for $134,437 and a 14th-place finish in the 2011 PCA $10,000 Main Event for $115,000. Anderson fought through 10,516 entries to make the final table of the WPT Prime Championship at the WPT World Championships at Wynn Las Vegas in December of 2023.

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Jim Collopy

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Biography Jim Collopy is an American poker player and three-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner. He won his first bracelet at the 2013 WSOP Asia-Pacific, winning Event #2: $1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha for A$69,662. Eight years later, he got his hands on a second bracelet after winning Event #32: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. for $172,823. It always feels cool to win on a big stage, so Id say thats what makes it most different, Collopy said comparing his second bracelet to the first. I wanted to see if I still had it, and that was rewarding to me, to see if I still had it. Collopy picked up his third bracelet in 2023 in Event #17: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better for $262,542. In 2021, Collopy finished graduate school at the University of California San Diego with a Masters of Advanced Studies in International Political Economy.

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Cherish Andrews

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Biography Cherish Andrews is an American poker player who was named 2022 Global Poker Index (GPI) Female Player of the Year. Andrews went head-to-head with Angela Jordison down the stretch for the title. However, Andrews wrapped up the year with three deep runs at the WPT World Championship for combined cashes of close to $500,000. In 2022, Andrews cashed for $758,513, doubling her previous earnings, including a sixth-place finish in the Wynn Mystery Bounty and a final-table finish in the WSOP Ladies Championship.

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Michael Wang

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Biography Michael Wang is an American poker player and two-time WSOP bracelet winner. His first bracelet came in 2015, winning Event #2: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em for $466,120. He defeated Bryn Kenney heads-up. His second bracelet came in one of the last events of the 2022 WSOP. It was another $5k bracelet, winning Event #87: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em for $541,604 a new career highest score. Other victories for Wang include the 2022 Stairway to Millions Event #5 for $219,300 and the 2019 Borgata Fall Poker Open Event #20 $1,560 Purple Chip Bounty NLH. Not to be confused with Joseph Cheong

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Matthew Wantman

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Biography Matthew Wantman is an American poker player with over $4 million in career earnings. He is a former WPT champion, winning the Aria Summer Championship in May 2019 for $443,475. At the Wynn High Rollers in December 2020, Wantman made the final table in the first three events. First, he finished fifth for $39,200 in the first high roller, and he followed it up with another fifth-place finish for $51,200 in the second one. For Event #3, he wound up finishing runner-up to Ray Qartomy, good for $135,000. All told, Wantman banked $225,400 in prize money. In 2022, he narrowly missed out on a second title after finishing third behind Ray Qartomy and eventual winner Joshua Pollock in the Legends of Poker.

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Shaun Deeb

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Biography Shaun Deeb is an American professional poker player. He is the owner of six World Series of Poker (WSOP) titles, as well as eight PokerStars WCOOP and five SCOOP titles. In 2018, he was also named World Series of Poker POY after recording 16 cashes and winning two bracelets. He has also won POY titles in both the SCOOP (2012) and WCOOP (2015) festivals. As of June 2023, he has amassed over $12 million in live earnings.

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