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Christoph Vogelsang

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Biography Christoph Vogelsang is a German professional poker player who hails from Sassenberg, Munster, but who resides in London, United Kingdom. Vogelsang began his online poker career in 2010, making several $10 deposits. The talented, analytical German built a substantial bankroll within only a few weeks and found himself playing $25/$50 against some of poker’s best players. Vogelsang was known as “Tight-Man1” on the now-defunct Full Tilt Poker but now mostly grinds online at PokerStars, where he is known as “26071985,” which is Vogelsang’s birthdate.

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Paul Phua

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Biography Wei Seng Phua, orPaul Phua as he is more commonly known, is a mega-rich Malaysian businessman and poker player, who is usually found playing high-stakes cash games and tournaments in Macau, although he does frequent Super High Roller events that are part of the Triton Poker Series. Born in 1964, Phua, surprisingly, did not begin playing Texas Hold’em until he was in his 40s. Phua considers himself an amateur poker players despite amassing more than $25 million in live poker tournament winnings. He attributes his rapid rise in the game to the fact fellow high-stakes stars Tom Dwan, Gus Hansen, Chau Giang, Patrik Antonius, and Phil Ivey frequenting Macau casinos in the early 2010s. Although Phua prefers cash games, and Short Deck Hold’em in particular, he has an impressive tournament resume. His first recorded live cash came in a 100,000 buy-in event at Aspers Casino, London, United Kingdom, in September 2012, which he won after defeating Richard Yong heads-up. Phua walked away with 1,000,000 ($1,621,297) for his victory. That impressive haul remained Phua’s biggest-ever score for almost seven years. He bested it when he finished second to Jason Koon in a Triton Poker Super High Roller Short Deck event in Jeju, South Korea, which earned him the equivalent of $2,025,607. Phua has since reeled in a handful more seven-figure scores, including a career-best 2,558,305 ($3,113,429) in August 2019.

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Paul Phua

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Biography Wei Seng Phua, orPaul Phua as he is more commonly known, is a mega-rich Malaysian businessman and poker player, who is usually found playing high-stakes cash games and tournaments in Macau, although he does frequent Super High Roller events that are part of the Triton Poker Series. Born in 1964, Phua, surprisingly, did not begin playing Texas Hold’em until he was in his 40s. Phua considers himself an amateur poker players despite amassing more than $25 million in live poker tournament winnings. He attributes his rapid rise in the game to the fact fellow high-stakes stars Tom Dwan, Gus Hansen, Chau Giang, Patrik Antonius, and Phil Ivey frequenting Macau casinos in the early 2010s. Although Phua prefers cash games, and Short Deck Hold’em in particular, he has an impressive tournament resume. His first recorded live cash came in a 100,000 buy-in event at Aspers Casino, London, United Kingdom, in September 2012, which he won after defeating Richard Yong heads-up. Phua walked away with 1,000,000 ($1,621,297) for his victory. That impressive haul remained Phua’s biggest-ever score for almost seven years. He bested it when he finished second to Jason Koon in a Triton Poker Super High Roller Short Deck event in Jeju, South Korea, which earned him the equivalent of $2,025,607. Phua has since reeled in a handful more seven-figure scores, including a career-best 2,558,305 ($3,113,429) in August 2019.

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David Peters

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Biography David Peters is an American poker player and four-time WSOP bracelet winner. As of June 2022, he sits sixth on the all-time money list with almost $40 million in career earnings. His most recent bracelet victory came in 2022 when he won Event #2: $100K High Roller Bounty for over $1.1 million. Biography Like many of his peers, Peters started playing poker after seeing Chris Moneymaker win the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Peters drew inspiration from Moneymaker who was an amateur who took on the pros in their backyard and walked away a world champion. Peters first cut his teeth in the online poker world, starting with freeroll tournaments. He won a freeroll for $600 and it proved to be the catalyst for a title-filled career that has seen him win more than $6.5 million from online poker tournaments and more than $39 million from live events. Known for his quiet, unassuming demeanor at the tables, Peters is one of the best poker tournament players to have ever picked up cards and chips. Ten of Peters’ live results weigh in at more than $1 million! His largest score came in 2016 when Peters finished second to Fedor Holz in a $200,000 buy-in Triton Super High Roller Series event in the Philippines; he banked $2,699,752 as part of a deal with Holz. The man from Ohio has four WSOP bracelets on his long list of poker accomplishments. The first came in 2016 in a $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event with his second and third bracelets coming from the online poker world in 2020 and 2021. In 2021, he also won back-to-back U.S. Poker Open Championships. With the WSOP’s move from the Rio to Paris and Bally’s in 2022, Peters picked up his fourth bracelet in the first open event of the summer with victory in the $100,000 High Roller Bounty.

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Nick Petrangelo

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Biography Nick Petrangelo is an American poker player from Massachusetts who has earned two World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and amassed $24.1 million in live tournament earnings, putting him second 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 Hold’em High Roller for $720,103, proving himself to be a true crusher in the high roller fields. Petrangelo earned his second-largest career cash in October 2021 when he took down a $200,000 Aria High Roller tournament for $1.5 million. His hot streak continued into the next year and, in January 2022, Petrangelo took down the a $100,000 event at the PokerGO Stairway to Millions for just over a million. He has also had success at the World Poker Tour (WPT), including winning a title by taking down a $3,000 WPT Online World Championship event in 2020 for $494,550. With four seven-figure cashes to his name to date, Petrangelo has established himself as one of the best poker players on the tournament scene today.

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Jake Schindler

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Biography Jake Schindler is an American poker player and World Series of Poker bracelet-winner. He won Event #12: $50,000 High Roller at the 2022 WSOP, winning $1,328,068 in the process. Biography Born September 25, 1989, Schindler hails from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania but now resides in Florida. He began playing tournaments back in 2009, and four years later won the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) for nearly $150,000 under the screenname “CaLLitARUSH”. In 2012, Schindler won the WSOP Circuit Palm Beach Kennel Club Event #5: $345 NLH Six-Handed for $24,736 and a gold ring. Schindler has amassed more than $33.1 million in lifetime tournament earnings according to The Hendon Mob, which places him atop Pennsylvania’s all-time money list. His career-high score of $3.6 million came from finishing runner-up to Christoph Vogelsang in the $300,000 buy-in 2017 Super High Roller Bowl. He also won the 2022 Super High Roller Bowl Europe for $3.2 million, claimed the 2018 partypoker MILLIONS Barcelona Grand Final 100K Super High Roller for $2,151,754, took down the 2018 World Poker Tour (WPT) Five Diamond $100K for $1,332,000, and emerged victorious in the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) $25,000 High Roller for $1,192,624. Schindler also has titles from the Seminole Hard Rock (SHRPO), PokerGO Cup, Stairway to Millions, and ARIA High Rollers.

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Phil Ivey

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Biography Phil Ivey is widely considered as one of the best poker players of all time, with over $32 million in live earnings as well as millions more in cash games and online. He is often referred to as the Tiger Woods of poker for his resemblance to the golf professional and also because he expects to win every time he performs to his greatest ability. Intro Phil Ivey was born on Feb. 1, 1977, in Riverside, California, but he moved to Roselle, New Jersey when he was just three months old. Ivey won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in 2000 at the $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha event collecting $195,000. Since then he won another nine bracelets, as well as one World Poker Tour title which he scored at the WPT L.A. Poker Classic in 2008. While not as prolific at the poker table as he once was, Ivey still captures the attention of the room as soon as he walks in and has recently joined the world of NFT’s.

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Paul Phua

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Biography Wei Seng Phua, orPaul Phua as he is more commonly known, is a mega-rich Malaysian businessman and poker player, who is usually found playing high-stakes cash games and tournaments in Macau, although he does frequent Super High Roller events that are part of the Triton Poker Series. Born in 1964, Phua, surprisingly, did not begin playing Texas Hold’em until he was in his 40s. Phua considers himself an amateur poker players despite amassing more than $25 million in live poker tournament winnings. He attributes his rapid rise in the game to the fact fellow high-stakes stars Tom Dwan, Gus Hansen, Chau Giang, Patrik Antonius, and Phil Ivey frequenting Macau casinos in the early 2010s.

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Daniel Colman

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Biography Daniel Colman burst onto the poker scene in 2014 with one of the best years in poker history winning an incredible $22,389,481. After 2017, Colman stepped away from poker publicly. His last cash, which came of December of that year, brought his lifetime tournament earnings to $28,925,058 (as of October 2022) according to the Hendon Mob. Background Born July 11, 1990, Colman hails from Holden, Massachusetts. He began playing online poker under the names “mrGR33N13” and “riyyc225” and has had tremendous success on the virtual felt, primarily at the high-limit hyper-turbo sit-and-gos.

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Nick Petrangelo

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Biography Nick Petrangelo is an American poker player from Massachusetts who has earned two World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and amassed $24.1 million in live tournament earnings, putting him second 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 Hold’em High Roller for $720,103, proving himself to be a true crusher in the high roller fields.

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Jake Schindler

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Biography Jake Schindler is an American poker player and World Series of Poker bracelet-winner. He won Event #12: $50,000 High Roller at the 2022 WSOP, winning $1,328,068 in the process. Biography Born September 25, 1989, Schindler hails from Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania but now resides in Florida. He began playing tournaments back in 2009, and four years later won the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) for nearly $150,000 under the screenname “CaLLitARUSH”.

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Fedor Holz

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Biography Fedor Holz is a German poker player and WSOP bracelet winner. He is also a GGPoker Ambassador. Over the course of his career he has amassed over $36 million in lifetime earnings and sits top of the German all-time money list. He has since embarked on a career outside of poker, including the mind coaching app Primed Mind and the poker-teaching platform Pokercode. Biography Holz shot to prominence in September 2014, after winning the PokerStars WCOOP Main Event. At his first World Series of Poker in 2015, he finished third in the highly competitive $10,000 Six-Handed Championship and followed that up with a 25th place finish in the Main Event.

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Phil Ivey

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Biography Phil Ivey is widely considered as one of the best poker players of all time, with over $32 million in live earnings as well as millions more in cash games and online. He is often referred to as the Tiger Woods of poker for his resemblance to the golf professional and also because he expects to win every time he performs to his greatest ability. Intro Phil Ivey was born on Feb. 1, 1977, in Riverside, California, but he moved to Roselle, New Jersey when he was just three months old. Ivey won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in 2000 at the $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha event collecting $195,000. Since then he won another nine bracelets, as well as one World Poker Tour title which he scored at the WPT L.A. Poker Classic in 2008.

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David Peters

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Biography David Peters is an American poker player and four-time WSOP bracelet winner. As of June 2022, he sits sixth on the all-time money list with almost $40 million in career earnings. His most recent bracelet victory came in 2022 when he won Event #2: $100K High Roller Bounty for over $1.1 million. Biography Like many of his peers, Peters started playing poker after seeing Chris Moneymaker win the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Peters drew inspiration from Moneymaker who was an amateur who took on the pros in their backyard and walked away a world champion.

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Bryn Kenney

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Biography Bryn Kenney is an American poker player with over $65 million in career earnings, and is the All-Time Money leader for live tournament earnings. He is also a WSOP bracelet winner, having won Event #63: $1,500 Six-Handed 10-Game Mix at the 2014 WSOP. In April 2022, Kenney was accused of running a cult-like cheating operation by Martin Zamani. Kenney denied the claims on Twitter. Poker Achievements Kenney’s first recorded poker cash came in the late 2000s. In 2009 he reached his first WSOP final table, and made his second the following year while also making a deep run in the 2010 WSOP Main Event where he would eventually finish 28th for $255,242.

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