The Stars of Poker: Best players of the Game

As Poker is gaining enormous increase in popularity these days, because of increasing exposure from various media like television and online tournaments, its important for any poker fan to know that who are the leading stars of this sports, following are some brief introduction on some of the all time best professional poker players:

§  Jamie Gold, pet named as Golden Boy was born on 25 August 1969 from Malibu, California. Jamie had a interest in Poker since his child hood and it was in the year 2005 that he started playing professionally and just after few month in April 2005 that he scored his first major win and earned $54,225, and since then he made lot of money in coming 12 months and the biggest of them was the WSOP 2006where he defeated Paul Wasicka and earned a record amount of USD 12,000,000.


§  Joseph Hachem   Born on 3rd of November 1966 is a famous Lebanese-Australian pro-poker player, with his total winnings at $10,547,032 is slightly behind Golden Boy, he made into many events before getting into the major even to of 2005 and made $2500+ by just because he missed the final event table, after his win over Steve Dannenmann, at final event of WSoP 2005 as amount of $7.5 million dollars was added to his earnings.


§  Allen Cunningham  basically belongs to Las Vegas, and ages 30, although he  started playing poker quite earlier bit dint got any major success before the year of 1999 when luck totally turned up for him making him six major tournaments and after seeing his success in profit Allen even dropped the college from where he was perusing his graduation. Allen has five bracelets for his wins in various events like for Seven-Card Stud and his current total wining earning ranges around $9,578,775.

§  Daniel Negreanu followed by Allen Daniel’s total winnings are $9,489,995 Daniel is a Toronto native and decided to go for professional poker play by dropping his college when he was 21, now Daniel is settled in Las Vegas with his family, he achieved two first place finishes at the 1997 World Poker Finals held in Foxwoods, and after that he went on and on, received several bracelets for WSoP tournaments and many other minor tournaments.


§  T.J. Cloutier is seat to create record for his recent 60 wins in major tournaments around the globe, which made him proud owner of 6 world level poker bracelets from WSoP. T.J have been playing poker while working for Army, which was followed by playing Professionals football but then due to some injury problem he had to quit the game and again try his hand on running a wholesale food business but as soon as he closed this business he moved to Texas in the year of 1956 and that’s when he started playing poker as an professional, and scored many bracelets for his account, but what he still waits for is the wins at the final event of main event