Casino and its Famous Faces

What is casino without Poker? If you think this blog forgets the world famous game, poker, then you're wrong. Now is the right time to talk about our Famous Poker Players. You can't be a real poker player without knowing these faces when Poker is the issue. It is about the top poker players that make it into the hall of fame.

David Reese

David Reese a.k.a Chip is an American poker player earned $2,900,000 in live tournament as of year 2007. He's good at playing Seven-card stud. He is known as the youngest poker player to be inducted at Poker Hall of Fame. He played at WSOP and received 3 bracelets on 1978, 1982 and 2006.

Chris Moneymaker

Moneymaker is also an American Poker player with total winnings of $5,650,000. He received 1 bracelet at WSOP. One thing to know about him is that Moneymaker is his real birth name. Real suitable for him, right? At 2005, Moneymaker published his autobiography entitled: "Moneymaker: How an Amateur Poker Player Turned $40 into $2.5 Million at World Series of Poker".

Phil Hellmuth

This American Poker player is also known as The Poker Brat. He is considered as one of the many outstanding poker player of all time. He had $9,580,000 as his total winnings as of 2007. He was a record holder for having most numbers of bracelets won at the world-famous WSOP. These poker bracelets were on 1989, 1992, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2006 and 2007. Aside from this, he ranked 7th on the WSOP All Time Money List and ranked 4th on the All Time Money List. Also, he was on the Poker Hall of Fame.

Howard Lederer

Known with many alias like The Professor, Bubba and Bub, this American Poker player had total winnings of $3,400,000. He played at WSOP and received 2 bracelets on 2000 and 2001. He is a brother of one the most famous faces in poker, Annie Duke.

Annie Duke

Like his brother, Lederer, Duke was known for many alias like Annie Legend, The Duke and The Duchess of Poker. Our lady has won a total of $3,400,000. She plays at WSOP and WPT.

Doyle Brunson

Known as Texas Dolly, he had total winnings of $5,100,000 as of 2007. Next on Hellmuth, Brunson holds 10 bracelets at WSOP for the year 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1991, 1998, 2003 and 2005. He was named the number 1 most influential force in the Poker world by BLUFF magazine in January 2006. Aside from being a poker player, Brunson also managed to write poker books like Super/System.

Phil Ivey

He was the first poker player to beat Amarillo Slim heads-up. Ivey was known for the alias The Tiger Woods of Poker and No Home Jerome. He won a total of $7,800,000. He got 5 bracelets at WSOP for the year 2000, 2002 and 2005.

Thomas Austin Preston, Jr.

Known as Amarillo Slim. He was a Poker Hall of Famer in 1992. He hold four bracelets at WSOP for the year 1972, 1974, 1985 and 1990. His total winnings in playing poker is $590,000 counted on January 2007.