Mori Eskandani
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Biography 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.
PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship 17th $17,500 2022 WSOP OnlineEvent #1: $400 NLH Kick-Off 36th $1,332 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #9: $1,500 Seven Card Stud 27th $3,018 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #12: $1,500 Limit Hold’em 52nd $2,631 2012 World Series of PokerEvent 32: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. 9th $35,923 2010 World Series of PokerEvent #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Championship 331st $36,463 2008 World Series of PokerEvent 4 - $5,000 Mixed Hold’em (Limit/No Limit) 32nd $10,922
Mori Eskandani
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@Mori Eskandani
Biography 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.
PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship 17th $17,500 2022 WSOP OnlineEvent #1: $400 NLH Kick-Off 36th $1,332 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #9: $1,500 Seven Card Stud 27th $3,018 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #12: $1,500 Limit Hold’em 52nd $2,631 2012 World Series of PokerEvent 32: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. 9th $35,923 2010 World Series of PokerEvent #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Championship 331st $36,463 2008 World Series of PokerEvent 4 - $5,000 Mixed Hold’em (Limit/No Limit) 32nd $10,922
Mori Eskandani
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@Mori Eskandani
Biography 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.
PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship 17th $17,500 2022 WSOP OnlineEvent #1: $400 NLH Kick-Off 36th $1,332 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #9: $1,500 Seven Card Stud 27th $3,018 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #12: $1,500 Limit Hold’em 52nd $2,631 2012 World Series of PokerEvent 32: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. 9th $35,923 2010 World Series of PokerEvent #57: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Championship 331st $36,463 2008 World Series of PokerEvent 4 - $5,000 Mixed Hold’em (Limit/No Limit) 32nd $10,922
Walter Puggy Pearson
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Biography Walter “Puggy” Pearson was an American poker player who won the 1973 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. He was one of the first participants in the WSOP in 1970, winning his first bracelet in 1971. Pearson won four WSOP bracelets in total, winning three in 1973 alone including his Main Event win. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1987. Pearson died following a heart attack in April 2006, aged 77.
Johnny Moss
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Biography Johnny Moss was an American gambler and poker player. His nickname was ‘The Grand Old Man of Poker’.
During his career, he won nine World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets including three WSOP Main Events (1970, 1971, 1974), a feat matched only by Stu Ungar (1980, 1981, 1997).
In 1979, Moss was an inaugural inductee to the Poker Hall of Fame in 1979. Moss died in December 1995, aged 88.
Walter Puggy Pearson
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Biography Walter “Puggy” Pearson was an American poker player who won the 1973 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event.
He was one of the first participants in the WSOP in 1970, winning his first bracelet in 1971. Pearson won four WSOP bracelets in total, winning three in 1973 alone including his Main Event win.
He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1987. Pearson died following a heart attack in April 2006, aged 77.
Jack Treetop Straus
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Biography Jack “Treetop” Straus was an American poker player who won the 1982 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event.
Nicknamed “Treetop” as a result of him being 6'6", Straus died of an aortic aneurysm on August 17, 1988 while playing high-stakes poker at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles.
Later that year, Straus was posthumously inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1988. He holds the dubious honour of being one of three Poker Hall of Famers to die whilst playing cards, joining Tom Abdo and Wild Bill Hickok.
Doyle Brunson
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Biography Doyle Brunson was an American poker player, often referred to as ‘The Godfather of Poker’. He was arguably one of, if not the greatest poker player of all time and a true legend of the game. Brunson passed away in May 2023 at the age of 89.
Brunson was best known for winning the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event in 1976 and 1977. He was one of only four players to have won the Main Event on more than one occasion. He achieved the feat in back-to-back years, something that only three others have achieved.
Chip Reese
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Biography David “Chip” Reese was an American poker player regarded by many to be one of the best all-around poker players in history.
During his career, he won three World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and in 1991 was the youngest living player to be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. At the 2006 WSOP, he won the inaugural $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship.
Reese died in 2007 aged just 56.
Thomas Amarillo Slim Preston
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Biography Thomas “Amarillo Slim” Preston was an American poker player who won the 1972 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event.
He went on to win three other bracelets in three different decades, the last of which came in 1990. Following his success, he appeared on national television including the The Tonight Show, Good Morning America and 60 Minutes.
In 1992, Preston was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame, recognising his WSOP success and attempts to change the image of poker.
Jack Keller
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Biography Jack Keller was an American poker player who won the 1984 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event.
He won two other WSOP bracelet as well as Amarillo Slim’s Super Bowl of Poker twice. Outside of poker, Keller served in the US Air Force prior to becoming a poker player.
Keller was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1993. He died on December 5, 2003, aged 60.
Stu Ungar
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Biography Stu Ungar was an American poker player widely considered to have been the greatest player in history. He won the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on three occasions (1980, 1981, 1997). He won two more WSOP bracelets in 2-7 Draw (1981) and Seven Card Stud (1983).
His youthful looks often made him appear younger than he was, earning him the nickname “The Kid.”
Ungar’s talent and powers of recall saw him excel not only at poker but blackjack and gin rummy as well. His dominance of gin rummy cannot be understated, with nearly all gin action drying up as a result of his skilled reputation and almost clairvoyant abilities.
Lyle Berman
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Biography Lyle Berman boasts a 30 plus year poker playing career with a first recorded live tournament cash in 1983 and his last coming in 2017. In that time, Berman has won three World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelets as well as $2,694,140 in total live tournament earnings.
A member of the Poker Hall of Fame, inducted in 2002 alonside Johnny Chan, and a co-founder of the World Poker Tour (WPT), where he holds the position of chairman. Berman’s influence in poker is felt on and off the poker table and holds legendary status in the spheres of the industry. During his peak on the felt people in Las Vegas thought of Berman as the best non-pro, no-limit poker player they’d ever met.
Johnny Chan
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Biography Johnny Chan is a Chinese-American poker player. He has won 10 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets, including the WSOP Main Event in 1987 and 1988. He is the last player to win the Championship event in back-to-back years.
In 2002, he was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.
WSOP Legend: Two-Time Main Event Champ Johnny Chan
Biography Born in China, Chan came to the United States in 1968 with his family to Arizona. After a few years spent there, Chan and his family relocated to Texas where his family owned a restaurant in Houston. Planning to keep with tradition and take over the family business, Chan took classes at the University of Houston. However, aged just 21, he moved to Las Vegas having decided to become a professional poker player.
Bobby Baldwin
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Biography Bobby Baldwin is an American poker player. A member of the Poker Hall of Fame, inducted in 2003, Baldwin won the 1978 World Series of Poker Main Event and three other WSOP bracelets.
Nicknamed the Owl, Baldwin has his first two bracelets in 1977. The following year he defeated Crandell Addington heads-up to win the WSOP Main Event. He was 28 years old and was the youngest winner in the history of the WSOP Main Event. That record was eventually broken by Stu Ungar just two years later.
Berry Johnston
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Biography Berry Johnston is an American poker player who won the 1986 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event.
Over the course of his career he has won five WSOP bracelets, including in Razz and Omaha, with his first bracelet coming in the very first WSOP Heads-Up Event held at the WSOP.
He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2004.
Johnston’s last live WSOP cash came during the 2016 World Series of Poker, but he most recently cashed in two events during the 2020 WSOP Online.
Jack Binion
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Biography Jack Benny Binion, the son of casino titan Benny Binion, is a hugely respected name amongst the world’s elite poker players, both past and present, as well as Las Vegas’ biggest high rollers. Binion was the first ever host of the World Series of Poker and has left a legacy in the game that is rivalled by few.
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Crandell Addington
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Biography Crandell “Dandy” Addington is an American poker player and member of the Poker Hall of Fame.
He was one of the inaugural players in the 1970 World Series of Poker, and holds the record for most final table appearances (seven). He finished second in the WSOP Main Event on two separate occasions (1974 & 1978).
Nicknamed “Dandy” due to his outfits at the table, Doyle Brunson says that Addington stood out like he was some sort of movie star at the tables.
T.J. Cloutier
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Biography T.J. Cloutier had been a great, well-rounded athlete upon entering college at the University at California at Berkeley with a scholarship to play both football and basketball. When things got rough for his family, Cloutier was forced to drop out of school and settle for a job to do his part. This lasted until he was drafted into the army and sent to fight for the country. It was with this tour of duty that T.J. discovered poker.
Billy Baxter
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Biography Billy Baxter is an American poker player and seven-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner. Five of Baxter’s seven bracelets have come in 2-7 Draw.
He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2006 and has amassed over $2.7 million in career earnings.
Baxter famously won a 1986 court case that argued that poker was a game of skill.
In 2010, Baxter narrowly missed out on a World Poker Tour title, finishing fifth for $246,921. This remains the largest cash of Baxter’s career.
Henry Orenstein
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Biography Henry Orenstein was a Polish-American toy maker, poker player and entrepreneur. He is the patent holder for the hole cam, a device that enabled players to see player’s hole cards, which was instrumental in the poker boom.
He won a WSOP bracelet in 1996 in a $5,000 Limit Seven Card Stud event for $130,000.
He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2008 and passed away in December 2021 aged 98.
Mike Sexton
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Biography Mike Sexton was an American poker player and commentator. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2009.
Over the course of his career he won a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet and World Poker Tour title, and was a long-time commentator for the World Poker Tour alongside Vince van Patten.
Sexton passed away in September 2020 from prostate cancer aged 72. Shortly before his death, the WPT Champions Cup was renamed to the Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup.
Dan Harrington
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Biography Dan Harrington is an American poker player and author who won the 1995 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event.
Over the course of his career, “Action Dan” won two WSOP bracelets, made four WSOP Main Event final tables, won a WPT title and over six million dollars in tournament winnings.
In 2010 he was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.
Biography Harrington was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on December 6, 1945. Both of his parents were born in Ireland.
Linda Johnson
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Biography Linda Johnson is an American poker player and former WSOP bracelet winner. She was an inaugural inductee to the Women in Poker Hall of Fame and was the second woman (after Barbara Enright) to be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.
“I am extremely proud and humbled to be voted into the Poker Hall of Fame, Johnson said at the time. I feel lucky to have been involved in many facets of poker over the past 35 years. Being recognized by the industry is a tremendous honor.
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