Winning The Game of Life

Kara Scott is a Canadian-born poker personality, host, presenter, commentator and player who has travelled the world with poker. After years of proving herself as both a poker player and presenter, in 2016, Kara became an 888poker Ambassador. In 2019, Kara partnered with 888poker to launch The Heart of Poker Podcast. Kara moved from Canada to the United Kingdom in 1999 and has been involved in the poker industry since the mid 2000's. She satiated her thirst for all things ...

Nikhil Segel, known as Nik Airball at the table is a well-known and renowned professional poker player. Growing up in a poker-obsessed household, Nik was introduced to the game by his folks and fell in love with it right away. He began playing poker with his family on a regular basis and eventually emigrated to the United States to follow his passion for the game. Nik Airball has established a name for himself as one of the world's most prominent ...

Jeremy Ausmus is a high stakes professional poker player living in Las Vegas, NV. He has played professionally since 2004 and has amassed over $14 million in tournament winnings. He has earned five World Series of Poker bracelets, and in 2012 finished 5th place in the World Series of Poker Main Event for over $2.1 million, before claiming his first WSOP bracelet the following year. He won Event #3: €1,650 Pot Limit Omaha at the World Series of Poker Europe. ...

Jon Van Fleet joined the Americas Cardroom team in early 2021. The Austin, Texas native is no stranger to the world of online poker. Jon made a name for himself during the original online poker boom of the 2000s under the nickname ‘apestyles.’ Just ask anyone who played online back in the day, and they’ll tell you all about his inimitable playing style. Jon started playing poker around the time fellow ACR Pro Chris Moneymaker conquered the WSOP Main Event ...

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 $60 million in live tournament earnings. 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 ...

Jose "Nacho" Barbero is an Argentinian poker player and WSOP bracelet winner. A former PokerStars Pro, Barbero has enjoyed a long poker career, from winning a European Poker Tour London £20,000 High Roller as far back as 2010 and finishing fourth in the 2023 PokerStars Players NL Hold'em Championship for $1,551,300 — the largest cash of his career. Also in 2010, he won two LAPT Main Events, in Uruguay and Peru. Barbero has enjoyed much success in South America, cashing ...

Nick Petrangelo is an American poker player from Massachusetts who has earned two World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and amassed more than $29 million in live tournament earnings, putting him first on the state's all-time money list. Petrangelo, whose first cash dates back to 2009, earned his biggest score to date at the 2018 WSOP, where he took down the $100,000 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller for $2.9 million. The same year, Petrangelo finished third in the WSOP's $50,000 No-Limit ...

Rob Yong is a British poker player, casino owner and entrepreneur. Yong owns Dusk Till Dawn casino in Nottingham, United Kingdom and runs Luxon Pay, a payment provider for poker players and tours. Dusk Till Dawn opened in 2007 and went on to build a close relationship with partypoker and host a series of major tournaments including the partypoker MILLIONS, partypoker Grand Prix, The Festival and UKIPT stops. He's appeared on Poker After Dark and No Gamble, No Future, while ...

Kevin Martin is a professional poker player and streamer from a small town in northern Alberta, Canada. After playing his first poker hand in 2014, he knew that the poker world was where he wanted to be, and he quickly immersed himself in poker strategy books, quitting his radio DJ job to pursue the game full-time. In the early days, Martin could be found grinding it out in small cash games in Canadian casinos, but after successfully building a bankroll, ...

Maria Konnikova is a New York Times best-selling author, journalist, and professional poker player. Maria Konnikova is the author, most recently, of The Biggest Bluff, a New York Times bestseller, one of the Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2020, and a finalist for the Telegraph Best Sports Writing Awards for 2021. Her previous books are the bestsellers The Confidence Game, winner of the 2016 Robert P. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking, and Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, an ...

A legend in the poker world and a wealth of knowledge and experience...Mori Eskandani is a poker TV producer and president of PokerGO. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2018. A former high stakes cash game player, for two decades Eskandani has worked behind the scenes on such programs as the World Series of Poker on ESPN, NBC Heads-Up Championship, Poker After Dark and High Stakes Poker. Here is what you can expect on this week's ...

Ana Marquez joined the Americas Cardroom team in January 2022. The Spanish poker player, who splits her time between Europe and North America, has served as an ambassador for several prominent poker brands. Ana was once the #1 ranked poker player in all of Spain. The ACR Team Pro has racked up close to $2 Million in live poker winnings to date, but she’s just getting started.Marquez got her start playing poker while studying at American University in Washington, DC. ...

Ebony Kenney is an American poker player and streamer with over $2.3m in career earnings. In 2022, she entered the $200K Coin Rivet Invitational alongside businessman Phil Nagy where she finished fifth for $1,700,000.She joined ACR in 2020, but her winning career in poker started in 2007 at live poker tables. She made headlines in 2017 after racking up serious live earnings, which included five figures for finishing first at the Rio Deepstack event.Here's what you can expect on this ...

For Mustapha Kanit, the encounter with poker was made during adolescence. From as early as ten years old, the Italian-Moroccan was already passionate about another major 21st century card game - Magic: The Gathering: After an invite to a poker game from his friends where Mustapha beat them hands down, he was hooked. Mustapha packed his bags and tested Europe's poker destinations at a very young age, winning his first successes in Malta, Barcelona, Madrid and Cannes; better still, the ...

Ben Heath is a British poker player and WSOP bracelet winner with over $12.5 million in career earnings. He studied mathematics at the University of Warwick and graduated with a BSc in 2013.His bracelet victory came back in 2019, winning the $50,000 High Roller for $1.48 million."When I was younger, I was shy and didn't really want to win the bracelet," he told PokerNews. "I would have rather just taken second place. But now that it has happened, it feels ...

Scotland's top tournament money winner, the man known to most as 'Firaldo' discovered his love for poker while completing his law degree. He has earned over $10m in tournament cashes online and live since he made the decision to pursue poker full time. Niall Farrell has had a successful career in poker with multiple six-figure wins. In 2013, he began his journey when he competed in the 44th World Series of Poker. He finished in a respectable second place in ...

Born April 6, 1982, in Colorado, Steve O’Dwyer got into poker after seeing Chris Moneymaker win the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP). A Bachelor of Science in Communications graduate from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, O’Dwyer worked briefly in broadcasting before making a career for himself in the poker world.O’Dwyer, who is friends with fellow poker pros Scott Seiver and Isaac Haxton, had more than $31.5 million in lifetime earnings (as of summer 2022) dating back to ...

Felipe "Mojave" Ramos is a Brazilian poker player and GGPoker Ambassador. One of the pioneers of the game in South America having accumulated millions in earnings in the live tournaments, online poker and cash games, Mojave is a poker reference whatever the game is, being amongst the most thrilling and successful poker stories the world has ever seen.Started from the very bottom coming from a poor neighborhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil, officially in January 2008 when he dropped his career ...

Jennifer Shahade grew up in a family of gamers. Her brother is IM Greg Shahade is founder of the PRO Chess League and the US Chess School, while her mother, Dr. Sally Solomon (1940-2013), was an avid bridge and poker player. Her father, FM Michael Shahade is a four-time state champion and taught her chess at five. Jennifer did not take to the game right away, gravitating instead to acting and writing. When she got back into it in high ...

Michael Soyza is a Malaysian poker player from Kuala Lumpur. He first started playing poker in 2008, playing in a $0.03/$0.06 home game as his first introduction to the game. After a three-year foray into the world of investment banking, Soyza jumped into poker full time. After cashing for over $650,000 in 2017, Soyza followed it up with six tournament wins in 2018 for a total of more than $1.5M. In 2019, at the esteemed Triton Poker Series in Jeju, ...