Tom Vogelsang
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PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus$1,100 Eureka Main Event 10th $25,750 2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus$2,200 Eureka High Roller 66th $6,725 2023 PokerStars EPT Barcelona1,100 Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event 228th €5,330 2023 PokerStars EPT Paris1,100 FPS Paris Main Event 130th €3,000 2022 Triton Poker CyprusEvent #2: $100,000 NLH 8-Handed 2nd $1,390,000 2021 PokerStars EPT Prague5,300 EPT Main Event 67th €14,720 2021 World Series of Poker EuropeEvent #10: 25,000 NLH Platinum High Roller 10th €43,090 PokerStars WCOOP 2021WCOOP-42-H: $5,200 NLHE [8-Max], $700K Gtd 4th $68,166 2021 WPT World Online ChampionshipsEvent #2: $2,100 Omaha Championship 10th $7,543 2020 Irish Open OnlineEvent #6: 50,000 GTD The Hendon Mob Championship 34th €663 2019 PokerStars EPT Prague5,300 EPT Main Event 73rd €12,150 2019 WSOP International Circuit Holland Casino Rotterdam2,750 High Roller 2nd €37,121 2019 World Series of PokerEvent #73: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT - World Championship 894th $17,135 2018 partypoker LIVE UK Poker ChampionshipsMain Event 55th £4,750 2017 Unibet Open BucharestMain Event 11th €7,405 2017 Master Classics of PokerMain Event 38th €8,577
Vanessa Kade
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Biography Vanessa Kade is a Canadian poker player who rose to prominence when she won the 15th anniversary PokerStars Sunday Million for $1.5 million. In addition to the career-best seven-figure score, Kade has picked up over a million in live tournament earnings. Formerly a video game designer, Kade turned to poker full time and played primarily online while streaming on Twitch. In March 2021, Kade, playing under the username “Niffller,” took down the Sunday Million 15th Anniversary after getting through a massive field of 69,876 players, in what Kade called “the best day of my life.
Michael Addamo
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Biography Michael Addamo is an Australian poker player and four-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner. He is also a former WPT World Online Championships Super High Roller (2021), Super High Roller Bowl (2021) and Poker Masters (2021) champion. As of December 2021, he has amassed over $17.7 million in lifetime earnings and is top of the Australian all-time money list.
Early Poker Achievements During the early 2010s, most of Addamo’s cashes came in A$200 weekly tournaments at the Crown Casino, Melbourne in his native Australia.
JJ Liu
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Biography J J Liu is a poker player with over $3.5 million in career earnings. She is third on the Taiwanese all-time money list behind James Chen and Pete Chen. In 2012, she was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame. During her career, she has won several tournaments including at the Borgata Fall Poker Open and APPT Macau. The largest cash of Liu’s career came in 2007, when she finished second in the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Championship for $600,000.
JJ Liu
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Biography J J Liu is a poker player with over $3.5 million in career earnings. She is third on the Taiwanese all-time money list behind James Chen and Pete Chen. In 2012, she was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame. During her career, she has won several tournaments including at the Borgata Fall Poker Open and APPT Macau. The largest cash of Liu’s career came in 2007, when she finished second in the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Championship for $600,000.
JJ Liu
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Biography J J Liu is a poker player with over $3.5 million in career earnings. She is third on the Taiwanese all-time money list behind James Chen and Pete Chen. In 2012, she was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame. During her career, she has won several tournaments including at the Borgata Fall Poker Open and APPT Macau. The largest cash of Liu’s career came in 2007, when she finished second in the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Championship for $600,000.
Teun Mulder
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Biography Teun Mulder is a Dutch professional poker player, not to be confused with the Netherlands’ world champion cyclist of the same name. Mulder has more than $6 million in online poker tournament winnings, the bulk of which stems from his play at PokerStars, where he is known as “tinnoemulder.” Mulder has online poker tournament cashes dating back to 2013 but it is in recent years where the Dutchman’s skills have been there for all to see.
Yuri Dzivielevski
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Biography Yuri Dzivielevski is a Brazilian poker player with four World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and over $5 million in live tournament earnings. Dzivielevski is best known as an online player who has racked up millions in earnings on PokerStars playing under the username “theNERDguy.” He was a PartyPoker Ambassador fromSeptember 2021 to January 2023.
Live Poker Achievements Dzivielevski has enjoyed success on the live felt, and at the 2019 WSOP he won his first bracelet and $213,750 by taking down Event #51: $2,500 Mixed Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or Better, Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo 8 or Better.
Alejandro Lococo
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Biography Alejandro Lococo, also known by his stage name “Papo MC” is an Argentinian MC, avid poker player, and former PokerStars Ambassador. Lococo has racked up $1,343,127 in live tournament earnings, which includes four cashes under the WSOP umbrella. Prior to Lococo finishing 7th in the 2021 WSOP Main Event Final Table, his best live cash of $36,772 was achieved thanks to his fifth-place finish in the MILLIONS South America Rio Open.
Ramon Colillas
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Biography Ramon Colillas is a Spanish poker player best known for winning the 2019 PSPC PokerStars Players Championship for $5.1 million. With over $6.1 million in live earnings, the PokerStars ambassador sits fifth on Spain’s all-time money list. The majority of Colillas’ tournament earnings were earned in the aforementioned PokerStars Players Championship, a $25,000 buy-in event that the Spaniard freerolled into with a Platinum Pass promotion before he topped the field of 1,039 to earn the seven-figure score.
Ali Imsirovic
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Biography Ali Imsirovic is a Bosnia and Herzegovinian poker player known for his achievements on the High Roller scene. In 2021, he was named GPI Player of the Year as well as winning the first ever PokerGO Tour presented by Guaranteed Rate Player of the Year Over the course of his career he has amassed over $17.5 million in total live earnings, and has won numerous High Roller tournaments including the 2018 Poker Masters.
Adam Friedman
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Biography Adam Friedman is an American poker player and five-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner. After winning his first bracelet during the 2012 WSOP, Friedman then won the $10,000 Dealer’s Choice Championship in back-to-back-to-back years (2018, 2019 & 2021), a feat no other player had ever accomplished. In 2022, he added a fifth WSOP bracelet in Event #22: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship.
Poker Achievements Friedman shot to prominence back in 2005 after an infamous hand in that year’s Main Event was shown on the ESPN broadcast.
Johan Guilbert
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Biography Johan Guilbert, who is also known under his ‘YoH ViraL’ moniker, is a French poker player and vlogger with over $4 million in live tournament earnings. He is also a regular in high-stakes cash games, and regularly makes appearances on poker live streams such as Hustler Casino Live and Live at the Bike. Guilbert can be seen on the first season of GGPoker’sGame of Gold, a poker reality competition on the GGPoker YouTube channel.
Johan Guilbert
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Biography Johan Guilbert, who is also known under his ‘YoH ViraL’ moniker, is a French poker player and vlogger with over $4 million in live tournament earnings. He is also a regular in high-stakes cash games, and regularly makes appearances on poker live streams such as Hustler Casino Live and Live at the Bike. Guilbert can be seen on the first season of GGPoker’sGame of Gold, a poker reality competition on the GGPoker YouTube channel.
Koray Aldemir
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Biography Koray Aldemir is a German poker player. He won the 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event for $8,000,000 and has amassed over $20 million in lifetime earnings.
Biography Aldemir discovered poker in 2006 before playing online. He eventually moved to Vienna and picked up his first recorded cash in 2012. He spent most of the 2010s traveling around Europe to play, while also visiting the WSOP in Las Vegas.
Jake Schwartz
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Biography Jake Schwartz is an American poker player from New York with $3.8 million in live tournament earnings. The biggest score of Schwartz’ career came in December 2015 when he finished fourth in the $10,000 World Poker Tour (WPT) Five Diamond World Poker Classic for $412,187. Many of Schwartz’ biggest scores have been earned on the WPT trail, including a second-place finish in the WPT bestbet Bounty Scramble for $228,590 and another runner-up finish in the 2020 WPT Rolling Thunder Main Event for $177,680.
Dan Cates
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Biography Dan Cates, better known by his nickname “Jungleman” is an American poker player. In 2021, he won his first WSOP bracelet. Cates can be seen on the first season of GGPoker’sGame of Gold, a poker reality competition on the GGPoker YouTube channel. Cates is known for playing at the very highest stakes both online and live, and was a regular feature in the PokerNews Railbird Report during the mid-2010s. In 2015, he admitted that he lost $5,000,000 while playing in Manila.
Ole Schemion
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Biography Ole Schemion is a German poker player. He has won both World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker titles in a career during which he has amassed over $16 million in earnings. Schemion is a former Global Poker Index #1, having held the title for 18 weeks straight between December 2014 and April 2015.
Poker Achievements Schemion shot to prominence in late 2012 after winning the Partouche Poker Tour Main Event for over 1.
Kyna England
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Biography Kyna England is an American poker player with over $800,000 in career earnings who was named the 2021 Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Player of the Year. She can be seen on the first season of GGPoker’sGame of Gold, a poker reality competition on the GGPoker YouTube channel. England, originally from Illinois, enjoyed a breakout year in 2021 after leaving her job in the insurance industry to pursue a professional poker career.
Kyna England
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Biography Kyna England is an American poker player with over $800,000 in career earnings who was named the 2021 Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Player of the Year. She can be seen on the first season of GGPoker’sGame of Gold, a poker reality competition on the GGPoker YouTube channel. England, originally from Illinois, enjoyed a breakout year in 2021 after leaving her job in the insurance industry to pursue a professional poker career.
Kyna England
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Biography Kyna England is an American poker player with over $800,000 in career earnings who was named the 2021 Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Player of the Year. She can be seen on the first season of GGPoker’sGame of Gold, a poker reality competition on the GGPoker YouTube channel. England, originally from Illinois, enjoyed a breakout year in 2021 after leaving her job in the insurance industry to pursue a professional poker career.
Mike Matusow
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Biography Never one to crawl into a shell at the table, Mike The Mouth Matusow got his nickname for his reputation of talking trash at the poker table. Of these well-known rants, Matusows most famous incident might be when he berated eventual champion Greg Raymer in the 2004 Main Event. Matusow took up poker at a young age when a friend introduced him to the game just before the 1990s. The game would soon become more and more serious for him.
Dan Cates
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Biography Dan Cates, better known by his nickname “Jungleman” is an American poker player. In 2021, he won his first WSOP bracelet.
Cates is known for playing at the very highest stakes both online and live, and was a regular feature in the PokerNews Railbird Report during the mid-2010s. In 2015, he admitted that he lost $5,000,000 while playing in Manila.
Poker Achievements Cates’ nickname came from his online username ‘jungleman12’ that he used when he first started out playing poker.
Ole Schemion
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Biography Ole Schemion is a German poker player. He has won both World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker titles in a career during which he has amassed over $16 million in earnings.
Schemion is a former Global Poker Index #1, having held the title for 18 weeks straight between December 2014 and April 2015.
Poker Achievements Schemion shot to prominence in late 2012 after winning the Partouche Poker Tour Main Event for over 1.