Winning The Game of Life

Hailing from West Virginia, USA, Jason Koon is one of the most successful poker players of all time, specializing in high roller tournaments.He began playing poker in college, being taught the rules of the game by a roommate, and quickly realized he had an aptitude for cards and that he could even make a career from it!Koon is 9th on the All Time Money List, with over $38M in live tournament cashes, including one WSOP bracelet, multiple high roller tournament ...

Nemo “akaNemsko” Zhou is a FIDE Master (FM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM) competitive chess player. Zhou started playing at the early age of 4 years old, with notable achievements winning World Youth Chess Championships in 2014 and winning the Canadian women's championship in 2016 at the age of 16. She has competed for Team Canada at the Women's Chess Olympiad since 2014. She is currently on break from the University of Toronto, focusing on streaming Chess, poker and other games ...

Elliot Roe is a leading expert in Mindset Optimization for High Performers and is the world’s #1 Mindset Coach for poker players. His poker clients have won over $100,000,000 and nearly every major tournament title, including the World Series of Poker Main Event. His clientele also includes Olympic medalists, UFC Champions, Hollywood Actors, Business executives and wall street traders. His unique mindset coaching system leverages the power of hypnotherapy to eliminate fears and breakthrough mental roadblocks allowing you to operate ...

Martin Jacobson is a Swedish poker player who can lay claim to one of the biggest comebacks in professional poker history with his victory at the 2014 World Series of Poker’s Main Event. Martin began playing poker when his dream of becoming a professional chef was derailed but since pivoting, he has not looked back. He is the first Swedish player to crack the top ten on the well-respected Global Poker Index (GPI) leader board, broke a record by reaching ...

Muskan Sethi is India’s first female professional poker player and received an award from the President for breaking stereotypes and paving the way to success in unconventional fields. A regular on the Indian poker circuit for years, Sethi has achieved success in international poker tournaments, having competed in the World Series Of Poker numerous times. Sethi is co-founder of the app, "Doggydoo." Listen to this latest episode of Winning The Game Of Life where Dan talks with Muskan Sethi about ...

Bertrand Grospellier, known by his online handle ElkY, has quickly become one the most feared poker players on the planet. After a successful career in online-gaming, he discovered poker where he honed his skills online, only to go on and dominate live tournaments all over the world. He has won a World Poker Tour, a World Series of Poker bracelet, and a European Poker Tour title, giving him the Triple Crown. He is the most successful French poker player of ...

Frenchman, Johan Guilbert, also known by his online handle, YoH ViraL, has been playing poker professionally since 2010 and had a breakout year in 2021 with a second place finish in the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event and has earned himself a nomination for the 2022 Global Poker Awards Fan’s Choice: Poker Personality award. With success found, playing over one million online hands and hundreds of live tournaments, Johan turned his attention to becoming a social media influencer ...

Syrian businessman Mazzi Dumato opted for a complete life overhaul after he crashed his Ferrari in Dubai in 2016. Feeling lucky to be alive, the real estate and internet investor ditched his playboy lifestyle in favor of a simple, hippie existence and gave away the vast majority of his $3 million fortune to charity. Discovering it was all a scam, Mazzi embarked on another journey and embraced meditation and metaphysics, discovering his selfless mission of service to others. Mazzi currently ...

Nick Schulman is an American professional poker player and poker commentator. He has won 3 WSOP gold bracelets so far; as well as a WPT title in 2005, at the time, the youngest player ever to do so. Overall, he has over $13 million live tournament cashes, which puts him in the top 100 on the worldwide all-time money list and in the top 50 on the US all-time money list. He’s also a regular in the world’s most famous ...

Steve Albini is an American musician, record producer, audio engineer and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black and is a member of Shellac. He has produced iconic albums for artists such as, Nirvana, The Pixies, and Jimmy Page. He is the founder, owner and principal engineer of Electrical Audio, a recording studio complex in Chicago. In 2018, Albini estimated that he had worked on several thousand albums during his career. He has had major influence on the ...

Jennifer Harman is one of the most accomplished female poker players in the world. In 2002, she became the first woman to hold two World Series of Poker bracelets and throughout her career she has won over $2.5 million from live tournaments alone. She is renowned for playing in the high-stakes cash games at the Bellagio Hotel and was a natural at poker from a young age. Jennifer lost her mother to kidney failure, and she herself has had a ...

Brian Rast is an American poker player and winner of five World Series of Poker bracelets. He is one of only two players to have won the $50,000 Poker Players Championship on two occasions, doing so in 2011 and 2016 for combined cashes of over $3,000,000. A high-school valedictorian and Stanford dropout, once discovering poker, Brian has over $22,000,000 in live earnings and ranks 27th on the all-time money list.Check out this latest episode of Winning The Game Of Life ...

A self-confessed nerd with a first-class degree in astrophysics, Liv combined her science background and passion for games to become one of the most recognizable faces in professional poker. She was the #1 ranked female player from 2014-2016, and holds both European Poker Tour and World Series of Poker championship titles after winning more than $4 million on the international circuit. Liv is also a keen philanthropist, and in 2014 co-founded Raising For Effective Giving (REG), a research and advisory ...

Douglas Polk is a successful American professional poker player, who is rightfully called one of the best heads-up players in the world. He has earned over 9 million dollars playing poker and holds three WSOP bracelets. having started his way with just $20. However. In his heyday, Polk is a prominent content creator on YouTube, and streamer on Twitch under the handle, “WCGRider.” Polk is also one of the owners of Upswing Poker, one of the best coaching sites around ...

Tyler Blevins, known as 'Ninja' across social media, is an American gamer, author, and social media star best known for his Fortnite streaming on Twitch. Ninja first started his gamer career in 2009 when he began playing Halo 3 professionally for various organizations. He soon moved to Twitch, where he streamed himself playing Fortnite Battle Royale. In 2018, he set the record on Twitch for the largest concurrent audience on an individual stream (outside of tournament events) when he played ...

Maria Ho is a Hall of Fame Professional Poker Player and TV Host/Commentator, born in Taipei, Taiwan and raised in the U.S. With over 4 million dollars in live poker tournament earnings, she is one of the most recognized and successful women in the game and was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame in 2018, the first year she was nominated and eligible.Listen to this latest episode of Winning The Game Of Life where Dan talks with ...

Originally from Manalapan, New Jersey, Dan Smith has become a star and future hall-of-famer in poker. With titles including WPT, Aussie Millions, and several high roller titles, Smith currently sits at #5 on the all-time money list. With such accomplishments on the felt, it would be enough to cement his legacy, but what he does off the felt is where he truly shines. Smith runs his annual Double Up Drive for Charity, raising millions of dollars to give to the ...

Born in Kiev, Ukraine, Eugene Katchalov was raised in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from New York University (NYU) with a business degree, but he has been playing poker professionally for the past four years. One of Katchalov's biggest scores in a live tournament came in a $5,000 no-limit event during the 2007 Bellagio Cup III, where he earned $118,785. He also won the Sunday $750,000-guaranteed tournament on Full Tilt in November of 2007, but nothing compares to the more ...

Patrik Antonius has managed to become one of most recognizable and popular names in the poker world. Antonius is best-known as a feared cash game player, having done exceptionally well for himself in both "live" and online cash games, including winning the biggest pot in online poker history. Born and raised in Finland, Patrik Antonius spent time as both a tennis player and coach, and a professional model before becoming a professional poker player. In 2019, Patrik launched FLOP, a ...

Phil Galfond, born January 16, 1985 in Wisconsin, is one of the most respected poker players in the world, and not just for his greatness on the felt. The online poker pro is one of the friendliest players around and rarely engages debates on controversial issues on social media. For that reason, despite having a large fan base, he doesn’t have many haters out there, which is a stark contrast from most high-profile poker players. Galfond isn’t just a poker ...