Legends of Poker
Inspiring life stories of the most famous and most talented Poker Players of all time.
Scotty Nguyen’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth
– General Information – Thuận B “Scotty” Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player. He was born on October 28th, 1962 in Nha Trang, Vietnam. He’s best known for winning the 1998 World Series of Poker Main Event. In addition, he has 4 WSOP...
Sam Greenwood’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth
– General Information – Sam Greenwood is a Canadian professional poker player. He was born on October 11th, 1988 in Toronto, Canada. After starting off as an online player, he’s become outstandingly successful in live tournaments, cashing for over $22...
Peter Traply’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth
– General Information – Peter Traply is a Hungarian professional poker player. He was born on March 27th, 1987 in Budapest, Hungary. He’s better known as his online poker moniker “Belabacsi”. Under that screen name, he’s racked up millions and millions in...
Kane Kalas’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth
– General Information – Kane Kalas is an American professional poker player and singer. He was born on May 11th, 1989. As a poker player, Kalas is best known for his appearances on Poker Night in America, a show that airs taped cash games on CBS Sports,...
Brandon Adam’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth
– General Information – Brandon Adams is an American professional poker player and author. He was born on December 12th, 1978 in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has also taught game theory and behavioral finance lectures at Harvard University. Adams has mainly...
Dan Smith’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth
– General Information – Dan Smith is an American professional poker player. He was born on February 23rd, 1989 in New Jersey. Smith is one of the most successful live tournament players of all time. As of the time of writing this article, he sits in the...
Paul Phua’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth
– General Information – Paul Phua is a Malaysian businessman and recreational poker player. He was born in 1964 in Miri, Malaysia. As a huge sports fan at a young age, Phua started his career in gambling as a sportsbook. He then moved on to operate VIP...
Maurice Hawkins’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth
– General Information – Maurice Hawkins is an American professional poker player. He was born on February 2nd, 1980. He’s best known for winning more WSOP Circuit rings, 14, than any other poker player in history. Overall, he’s cashed for $4.1 million in...
Jason Somerville’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth
– General Information – Jason Somerville is an American professional poker player and Twitch streamer. He was born on April 15th, 1987 on Long Island, New York. Somerville streams on Twitch on the Run It UP account, the account for an online poker content...
Mikita Badziakouski’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth
– General Information – Mikita Badziakouski, sometimes alternatively spelled as Nikita Badziakouski, is a Belarusian professional poker player. He was born on February 6th, 1992. He’s achieved great success at the poker table at a very young age. He was...
Steffen Sontheimer’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth
– General Information – Steffen Sontheimer is a German professional poker player. He was born on September 13th, 1990 in Gernsbach, Germany. Sontheimer started off as an online cash game player. He then moved on to achieve great success at the live...
Steve O’Dwyer’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth
– General Information – Steve O’Dwyer is an American professional poker player. He was born on April 6th, 1982 in Colorado Spring, CO. O’Dwyer is one of the biggest live tournament crushers in history. He plays high buy-in events regularly around the...
Benny Binion’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth
– General Information – Lester Ben “Benny” Binion was an American poker player and casino executive. He’d also been convicted for murder and had a long history with organized crime. He was born on November 20th, 1904. He passed away on December 5th, 1989....
Andrew Neeme’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth
– General Information – Andrew Neeme is an American professional poker player and poker vlogger. He is from the state of Michigan. Neeme started as an online cash game player, but now he focuses on live cash games in Las Vegas and California. He also has...
Vanessa Selbst’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth
– General Information – Vanessa Selbst is an American professional poker player. She was born on July 9th, 1984. She’s the only female player with 3 WSOP gold bracelets. Overall, she has cashed for $11.891 million in live tournaments during her career,...
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth
– General Information – Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier is a French professional poker player and former professional eSports player. He was born on February 8th, 1981 in Melun, France. As an eSports player, he played the games StarCraft and Warcraft III...
Isaac Haxton’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth
– General Information – Isaac Haxton is an American professional poker player. He was born on September 21st 1981, in Westchester, NY. He’s best known for playing and regularly cashing in the highest buy-in tournaments around the world. His live tournament...
Chip Reeses’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth
– General Information – David Edward “Chip” Reese was an American professional poker player. He was born on March 28th, 1951 in Centerville, OH. He passed away on December 4th, 2007. Reese won 3 WSOP gold bracelets. In 2006, he won the first event in the...