Twenty-eight-year-old Eric Assadourian is already being hailed as the ‘next big thing’ in Australian poker, but the reality is that he may already be the current big thing.
An unknown on the world poker scene six months ago, Raymond Rahme fulfilled every player’s dream when he reached the final table – finishing third – at this year’s World Series of Poker main event.
ONE of the most popular and well know professional players on the international poker circuit, Scotty Nguyen is one of four former World Series of Poker main event champions to assemble in Sydney this week for the Asia Pacific Poker Tour Grand Final at Star City.
The ‘Fossilman’ as he is known because of his love of fossils (including one that he uses as his card protector), Greg Raymer made his name in 2004 when he beat out a then record field of 2576 to win the World Series of Poker main event.
Born in the United States and now living in New Zealand, former doctor Lee Nelson has earned a reputation as one of the fiercest poker players in the southern hemisphere.
Mercier was born in 1975 in Canada. The one-time blackjack dealer and poker boss at the Aviation Club de France, Mercier took a huge gamble in 2004 when she quit her job to take up life as a full-time poker professional – despite having almost no bankroll to play with. The move has since paid huge dividends.
One of the newest members of Team Pokerstars.net, Tahtouh, 26, cut his teeth playing against some of Australia’s top players.
Blessed with the perfect name for a poker player, Chris Moneymaker will go down in the history books as the man who almost single-handedly sparked poker's massive growth in popularity.
A relative new comer to the poker world, Elky was for a number of years ranked amoung the top computer gamers in the world.
