VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION: LAS VEGAS, NV

When [vital]Myth started playing poker in 2003, he wanted to become so good that he would be recognized and feared at the tables. Six years later, he has accomplished that and much more, with a WSOP final table, a victory in a $2,000 prelim to a WPT event, countless other tournament wins, and a consistent winning record in mid-stakes cash games.

[vital]Myth is a complete poker player: he has not only studied the minutiae of the game in order to plug all his leaks, but also worked to structure everything from his playing sessions to his sleep schedule for optimal performance. This robust understanding of how to succeed at poker has made him both a top-tier player and coach. Over 20 of his long-term students are now successful players.

VIDEOS: MTTS
LOCATION: NEW YORK, NY
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Adanthar, a former lawyer, is a pillar of the online poker community. He is known and respected widely, not only from his CardRunners and forum presence, but also for his "60 Minutes" appearance following the super-user scandal.  He is not just an ABC player -- he knows when to mix it up, and includes several examples of effective non-standard plays in each of his videos. Adanthar’s results are among the best in the online tournament community: he's won the Sunday Million on PokerStars and finished in the top three at least once in every Sunday major he regularly enters. He has also branched out into PLO and razz, with extraordinary results: in 2009 alone he has a second place in a $2,000 razz tournament on PokerStars, and third place in the $300 FTOPS razz event.

Chief Operating Officer
LOCATION: CHICAGO, IL

Alex Huang is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati. He worked five years in Public Accounting before joining CardRunners in 2010 as the Brand Manager. When he's not too busy getting hustled by the elderly on the golf course, he is hopelessly cheering on Cincinnati sports and micro-managing his fantasy sports teams.
 

He currently resides in Chicago, Illinois and works in the CardRunners office serving in the role of Chief Operating Officer. You can follow Alex on Twitter at @alexjhuang.

VIDEOS: MTTS
LOCATION: LAS VEGAS, NEVADA

augie is a tournament specialist who resides in Las Vegas Nevada. He's a winning tournament player who also serves as a moderator on the TwoPlusTwo Forums. Originally from Normal, IL, his videos are known for his humorous commentary and exceptional articulation. He credits his patience and ability to grind long hours as a few of the reasons for his success in MTTs.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NO LIMIT HOLDEM
LOCATION: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

Awesemo began playing poker as a senior in high school.  He attended Washington University in St. Louis and played Sit and Go's for side income.  In 2007 he dedicated himself to cash games and watched several CardRunners videos to advance his play. He began playing $100NL Full Ring but eventually settled into 6-max cash.  After Black Friday, he has relocated to Canada to continue his career as a professional poker player.

VIDEOS: HEADS-UP NLHE
LOCATION: PHILADELPHIA, PA

mu(x+t) started playing poker in the dorms at University of Pennsylvania shortly after one of his friends won $75,000 in the PartyPoker Sunday Special.  He started playing low stakes SNGs online but after spilling a beer and ruining his roommate's laptop, he decided to switch to cash games.  He earned enough money over winter break that year to buy his roommate a new laptop, and was hooked on cash.  He then discovered CardRunners and made the switch to heads-up NLHE after watching videos from Taylor, Townsend, and Cole. 

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NO LIMIT HOLDEM
LOCATION: BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

A long-time member at CardRunners, balbomb has been one of the fiercest regulars in the mid-stakes NLHE games. What started out as a free $10 on a site grew into a bankroll that allowed him to play $200 SNGs and make a career out of the game. 

Surrounded by a close group of friends who had a knack for the game, he eventually settled in at the $200NL cash games, becoming one of the biggest winners at those stakes. He loved the shorthanded nature of the game and credited his work ethic and ability to stay one step ahead of the trends in poker for his success.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX LHE
LOCATION:  PHILADELPHIA, PA

BallzDeepx is 25 year old poker professional.  A "Moneymaker Effect" product, he honed his skills his sophomore year in college in 2004. He found that limit better catered to his skill set, despite NLHE being all the rage. After graduating from Franklin & Marshall College in 2006, he worked for a commercial mortgage bank for a year, while seasoning and refining his game. In July '07, he took the plunge, quit his job and has been playing full time ever since.  

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX AND HEADS-UP PLO
LOCATION: TORONTO, CANADA
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Banana got hooked on poker after watching the WPT and built his online bankroll from an initial deposit of $200.  He prides himself on his ability to make adjustments, read hands, and play fearlessly versus any opponent.  Teaching invigorates him, and making videos for CardRunners was one of Banana's goals from early in his poker career.  He urges members to post and discuss hands and think about situations away from the table in order to get the most out of his videos.

VIDEOS: SNGS
LOCATION: Lebanon

After playing many games casually for two years, Braminc decided to become a full-time SNG player in 2006. He reached a 20% ROI at the $22s on PartyPoker when the UIGEA passed through Congress.  He quickly moved to Full Tilt Poker, where he moved through the ranks all the way to the $500s.

He attributes much of his success to his hyper competitive nature. From the beginning, he was reading books and scouring the internet for high-quality information about poker.  Before he started playing poker, Braminc attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. He then moved to Dallas and worked in a music studio writing jingles for TV commercials and gave guitar lessons. Post-Black Friday, he has relocated to Lebanon to continue playing online poker.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION: SAN DIEGO, CA
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bruechips is a graduate student in Economics at the University of California at San Diego. After playing a few live games at card rooms in California, he decided to start playing online and take the game more seriously. He spends most of his online poker time inhabiting the NL100 full ring games, although he has played anywhere from 50NL to 400NL and also occasionally plays six-max.   

He finds his edge in part by applying research on behavioral game theory to his decisions at the table. Many of brue's videos focus on finding the equilibrium strategies in different poker situations, and then discussing common deviations from equilibrium strategy and how to exploit them. 

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX AND FULL-RING PLO
LOCATION: AUSTIN, TX

Brystmar is a native Texan and a CardRunners instructor since 2007.  He started learning poker in 2004 and became one of the best multitabling small-stakes NLHE players before developing into a winning 3-6 and 5-10 player. In April 2008, in search of a new challenge and softer games, he took up PLO, and he currently plays mid-stakes PLO on both Full Tilt and PokerStars.

Brystmar is also an accomplished tournament player. His biggest win came in November of 2008 when he took down the FTP Sunday $215 tournament, outlasting 3643 players for $132,000. He final tabled the 2008 Wynn Poker Classic, and went deep in the $10K LA Poker Classic before taking a bad beat to bust.

Aside from poker, Brystmar is a music fanatic with a love of the progressive rock genre.  His greatest musical passion is in analyzing and recreating complex rhythms, and he plans to purchase a full drum kit when he finally moves into a house with a garage.  He's also a dedicated beer geek and a USPA-certified skydiver.

VIDEOS: PLO8
LOCATION:  DENVER, CO

Campfirewest is a Pot Limit Omaha 8 specialist.  He is the author of the book “PLO8 Revealed” the first book dedicated to the game and one of the first poker books ever to be translated into Russian.  He has played online since 2003 and is a former aerospace engineer who is currently working towards his MBA. 

VIDEOS: STUD & STUD H/L
LOCATION: ARLINGTON, VA

Ever since starting off his poker career playing Deuces Wild five-card draw with his friends in high school, ChipsAhoya has always had an affinity for unusual/mixed poker games (if an online site ever spreads Jacks Back, he'll be the first one at the table). After grinding limit HE for most of college, he became a student of stud, spending most of his poker time playing Stud 8/b, Razz, and HORSE games on Full Tilt at limits between 2-4 and 30-60. In 2009, he made his first WSOP final table, with a 5th place cash in the $2,500 Razz event for $38k. You can currently find him playing straight stud and mixed cash games, super-turbo SNGs, and working his way up the PLO limits.  

At the 2011 WSOP, he won his first WSOP bracelet in Event #33: $10,000 Stud 8 or Better World Championship, defeating Phil Hellmuth heads-up.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION: CHICAGO, IL
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After depositing $400 online in January 2008, Citizenwind used CardRunners, good coaching, and two five-figure tournament scores to fly through the small stakes. He is currently focused on live cash games and tournaments, and today those make up the majority of his play.  Citizenwind is also a professional writer and performer -- when he is not busy with poker, he speaks at colleges, universities, and literary festivals worldwide and has appeared on HBO’s “Def Poetry Jam.”

VIDEOS: MTTS
LOCATION: LAS VEGAS, NV
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ckingusc started playing poker in high school with friends, and has been playing high-stakes MTTs for almost three years.  His biggest strengths are avoiding tilt and maintaining his study of the game, and the hard work paid off when he won the 2008 WCOOP Main Event for $1.2m and the Sunday Million for nearly $200k.  His next goal is a bracelet at the WSOP.

VIDEOS: SNGS
LOCATION:  BALTIMORE, MD

Collin Moshman has a lifelong interest in math and games.  He graduated from Caltech in 2003 with a degree in theoretical math prior to becoming a professional online SNG player.  He heads an elite team of grinders, Team Moshman, and has personally coached over 40 players into becoming established winners.  

Collin is the author of best-selling poker books Sit 'n Go Strategy and Heads-Up No-Limit Hold 'Em.  He lives in the Washington, DC area with his wife and professional poker player Katie Dozier.

VIDEOS: HEADS-UP NLHE
LOCATION: SAN FRANCISCO, CA/LAS VEGAS, NV

Cpar1 is a poker pro with a bachelor's degree in Business Economics from the University of California-Santa Barbara. He spent his youth growing up in Laguna Beach, where he went to high school, competing in both soccer and surfing. He currently splits his time between San Francisco and Las Vegas.

In Augusts 2007, Cpar1 joined CardRunners and began to play heads-up with the help of some training videos. He immediately fell in love with heads-up NLHE, which he found more enjoyable and less tilting than limit games. In 2008 he finally achieved his goal of moving up from 1-2 to 2-4; the process was long and difficult, but what he learned made him a much stronger player, and has propelled him to more success at higher limits. Today he plays as high as 10-20 and most commonly at 5-10. His biggest strengths include knowing when to quit a game and how to learn from his previous mistakes.

VIDEOS: HEADS-UP AND SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION: WASHINGTON D.C.
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Cole "CTS" South's poker career began at the low-stakes tables around 2005, and his consistent success led him up the ranks to high-stakes ring games. He's built a bankroll of over $5 million and continues to challenge himself and succeed, having learned both PLO and mixed games. He has a reputation as a hyper-LAG and is able to articulate his thought process well in his videos. He loves to travel and has been to every continent except Antarctica. CTS currently plays NLHE and PLO from 10-20 up through 500-1000.

VIDEOS: FULL-RING NLHE
LOCATION: ONTARIO, CANADA
 

Duncan began playing poker with friends in $5 home games and quickly got hooked. After discovering online poker and joining CardRunners, he started from the smallest stakes available and steadily built his bankroll, settling in at $100NL and $200NL on PokerStars.

In 2009 he switched from 6-max to Full Ring, finding a niche in those games and becoming one of the biggest winners at $100NL. He played under the screen name "YouRBusto" on Full Tilt Poker and the majority of his play is under the screen name "cb4mvp" on PokerStars.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION: ONTARIO, CANADA

D_Zoo is a former high school teacher who currently coaches poker full-time.  He started his online roll with a $50 transfer from a friend which he used to grind the 10NL games.  He quickly climbed the stakes, becoming a regular in the 1000NL and 2000NL games on PokerStars, and playing up to 5000NL and 10,000NL on other sites. 

D_Zoo now focuses his time playing stakes from 400NL to 1000NL on Euro sites as well as mentoring and coaching his many students.

VIDEOS: RUSH CASH GAMES
LOCATION: ISRAEL 

D. Redstone is a single Dad using poker income to raise a lovely young boy all by himself. His love affair with poker started at 2006 after seeing it on Euro sport. He spent hours reading books, surfing the forums and at the tables.

After a huge MTT rush at the end of 06 he moved his money to the cash tables and went through the painful adjustment to the thinking players at the mid-level games. He took many coaching session, but it was his 1st session with the grand master Nutedawg that changed the way he looked at poker for ever.

Today he is mostly found at the $400NL RUSH games experimenting with creative lines while using his reads to give hard times to his opponents.

VIDEOS: FULL-RING NLHE
LOCATION: ARLINGTON, VA

DamnRinger is a very popular full ring coach for CardRunners who honed his games on the CardRunners forums. He built his bankroll playing almost exclusively Full Ring NLHE on Full Tilt and Cake Poker through the past 3 years. This ex-engineer went professional in late 2008 and hasn't looked back to the working world since. He attributes his success to hand reading, critical thinking and bankroll management. He mass-tables full ring games at 200NL and 400NL on FTP.

VIDEOS: FULL-RING NLHE, PLO
LOCATION: SCOTTSDALE, AZ

In the summer of 2006, Ryan "Daut44" Daut was chosen as Taylor Caby's protégé. Six months later, he was a World Poker Tour champion. Daut took the lessons to heart, made it through the 937-player field, and took down the 2007 WPT Caribbean Adventure. No online tournament player has made the transition to live play as well as DAut, who combines analytical expertise honed from hundreds of thousands of online hands with situational and psychological knowledge that is specific to the brick-and-mortar game.

Daut's skills extend far beyond the live tournament scene. He's a long-term winner in LHE, PLO and mixed games including Stud. He recently moved to Scottsdale, AZ from Basking Ridge, NJ and enjoys Jiu-Jitsu and mountain biking in his spare time.

VIDEOS: SIX MAX NLHE
LOCATION: AUSTRALIA

When Dintyo began to take the game seriously, the online poker world was already in full force. It makes his rise in stakes from 25NL to 1000NL that much more impressive. Despite the games being 'tougher', he began his climb at the microstakes and rarely played less than 200 hours per month. In less than two years, he had built a healthy bankroll and was beating the $400NL games at over 4bb/100. He credits training videos at CardRunners and a strong work ethic to his constant growth and improvement as a poker player.

VIDEOS: 6-MAX POT-LIMIT OMAHA
LOCATION: TOLEDO, OHIO

Jonathan "Djross13" Davis has been playing poker for over 5 years, with nearly 3 of those years dedicated exclusively to PLO.

He is a recent graduate of the University of Toledo with a bachelor's degree in business and a focus in professional sales and marketing.

After leaving the corporate world to pursue his passion of poker, he has been a regular at the small to mid-stakes PLO games. In addition to playing, he has also authored several articles on poker strategy, and is an avid poker coach.

VIDEOS: RAZZ
LOCATION: PHILADELPHIA, PA

Doctor Razz started playing online poker in 2003 and was a successful low stakes player at LHE, NLHE, and 7-card stud until he found his muse: razz. He started playing razz in 2005, where he quickly climbed up the ladder from .50-1 after doing extensive research into the mathematics and mechanics of the game. Playing as SGspecial on both Full Tilt and Pokerstars, he has taken on razz ring games at all limits and won many MTTs, with a 200% lifetime ROI in his bread and butter tourneys (the FTP $2k and $5k guarantees). He has been doing video coaching on StoxPoker since October, 2007, and has produced over 50 videos (including some on 7-card stud and mixed games).

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX & HEADS-UP LHE
LOCATION:  WASHINGTON DC
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Doughnutz graduated from Harvard Law School, and then practiced law at one of the top law firms in the country before quitting and turning pro in 2006, He has made over $2,000,000 lifetime playing Limit Hold’em. He was one of the original LHE "LAGs"; infamous for aggressive play that has been known to give his opponents fits.

He was the teammate of Matt "Hoss_TBF" Hawrilenko in the featured "Man vs. Machine" match against the Polaris computer at the World Series of Poker in 2008.

VIDEOS: BEGINNER NLHE
LOCATION:  LAS VEGAS, NV

A graduate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, Ed Miller was introduced to the game of poker while working as a software developer at Microsoft.  After discovering the world of internet poker forums and climbing in stakes, Ed left his job in 2003 to become a professional. 

Ed co-authored four books on No-Limit Holdem from 2004-2007 and cemented his place in the poker industry as a lead author and teacher of the game. He helped to launch the classroom-style learning programs at StoxPoker and his videos have been described as “must-watch” building blocks for all beginning players.

VIDEOS: SNGS
LOCATION: DETROIT, MI
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SNGs are a form of poker that requires the mastery of a handful of situations, and the ability to discriminate between spots that seem similar but are not. That makes them ideal for players like Faarcyde, who counts his biggest strength as the ability to break down situations in a simple, logical way. These skills have made him a consistent winner at $60, $75, and $119 SNGs.

Faarcyde is also an expert at tilt avoidance, a vital skill when one extra mistake per tournament is enough to make your edge disappear. Getting sleep and exercise allows him to keep his mental balance at the poker table. Poker has already allowed Faarcyde to quit his desk job—his next goal is to retire at age 30. That will give him time to take his acting classes and work on his budding stand-up comedy career.

VIDEOS: MTTS
LOCATION: OTTAWA, CANADA

Fishbones11 has amassed over $1.2 Million in prizes in online tournaments with wins in the Nightly Hundred Grand, Super Tuesday, and $109 rebuy on PokerStars as well as finishing runner-up in the Wednesday Quarter Million and fourth in the Full Tilt $1 Million Guarantee.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX AND HEADS-UP PLO
LOCATION: NEW ZEALAND

Benjamin "Foldngst8n" De Ath has played professionally for over five years.  After playing several years of limit holdem and no-limit holdem, he found his niche in PLO.  With over a million hands played, he has amassed over $750,000 in winnings at the mid-stakes PLO games over various Euro-friendly poker networks.  He shares his time living in South America and New Zealand and will focus on mid-stakes PLO games in his CardRunners videos.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX AND FULL-RING NLHE
LOCATION: VANCOUVER, CANADA

Fooz played chess competitively in high school, travelling to tournaments and playing for money. He soon figured out that even at the highest levels, chess simply wasn't a lucrative venture. He ran a home poker game for a while, raising the stakes until his friends wouldn't play anymore. He then quit his job, moved to Vegas and cashed out his 401k to seed his poker bankroll. After switching from limit to no-limit poker, he grew that bankroll and hasn't looked back.  Fooz is a also club DJ and an electronic music producer. When he is not chilling with his loving family, playing poker, or making CardRunners videos, he is driving a dance floor into a frenzy.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX POT LIMIT OMAHA
LOCATION: OTTAWA, CANADA

Gakn29 was introduced to the game of poker by a friend and played home games at local universities and in underground clubs in Canada.  After getting a $18k boost to his bankroll from an MTT, he grew it to over $150k playing mid-stakes no-limit.  Once U.S. legislation passed, he focused his energy towards PLO and continues to play the mid-stakes games on various sites.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION: CHILE

After purchasing a CardRunners membership, Gareth Chantler began to focus his energy in improving his poker game. 

After the introduction of RUSH poker, he ditched the MTT-grind and embraced the format, playing RUSH exclusively. He settled in at the 6-max RUSH games. Armed with a level-head and analytical approach, he quickly became a regular between the $50-$100NL stakes. 

VIDEOS: HEADS-UP, SIX-MAX NLHE AND PLO
LOCATION: CHICAGO, IL

Taylor “Green Plastic” Caby grew up in the suburbs of Chicago.  After playing poker regularly throughout high school and his freshman year of college, he started playing online just a few weeks after Chris Moneymaker won the Main Event in 2003. 

He was one of the first "internet players" to gain online fame and fortune by playing and beating the highest stakes games on the internet from 2004-2007.  He deposited $35 and ran it up to over seven figures. In less than two years he went from $5 SNGs to 50-100 NLHE, where he established his reputation in the poker world by playing legendary heads up battles with Prahlad "Spirit Rock" Friedman. 

He founded CardRunners in 2005 and boasts over 100 videos in the library, mainly HU and six-max NLHE.  He currently plays HU NLHE ranging from 10-20 to 50-100.  He lives in Chicago and when he isn't busy with poker or CardRunners, he enjoys playing basketball and learning racquetball.

VIDEOS: MTTS
LOCATION: WILMINGTON, NC

With over $2 Million in career online winnings, HITTHEPANDA is a highly-regarded tournament specialist. Ranked as high as 14th in the world in early 2010, he is a winner of the PocketFives Triple Crown and has won over 40 online tournaments in his career. He's won the $109 Rebuy on PokerStars as well as the $200k GTD and Friday Night Fight on Full Tilt. He also has had success on the live circuit, with career winnings of over $100k, including a 7th place finish in the 2009 EPT Vilamoura.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION: CHICAGO, IL

iRock plays mainly 10-20 NLHE, dabbling in 25-50 and 5-10.  He started playing SNGs and entered a $33 turbo MTT on a lark and finished third for $2700.  After this score he focused on cash games (while keeping his job waiting tables), built up his bankroll, and joined CardRunners.  iRock has a great sense of game flow and consistently stays one step ahead of his opponents.  He often starts a session by watching a video or studying hands, and advocates quitting a session when you start to lose focus. He is currently learning PLO and mixed games.

VIDEOS: SNGS, MIXED GAMES
LOCATION: LONDON, ENGLAND
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Jackal is a poker player and freelance journalist who has written for numerous poker publications. He's been playing for over five years and considers himself an all-around player. He plays 5-10 to 25-50 no-limit, 30-60 to 200-400 mixed games, $200 to $2,000 sit-and-goes, major online weekend tournaments, and occasional live tournaments. At CardRunners, he specializes in sit-and-go instruction and HORSE instruction.

His career highlights include a chopped PokerStars Sunday Million (for $75,000), and the night he won the big Sunday $100 rebuy for around $40,000, he also finished second in the weekly HORSE tournament (for $8,000). He has won or chopped almost every PokerStars weekend tourney they offer: these include the $200 pot-limit Omaha, stud-8, and Omaha-8 tournaments. He also won $28,000 when he finished third in a televised tournament in London.

VIDEOS: MTTS
LOCATION:  BROOKLYN, NY

Matt Matros reached back to back final tables at the 2010 WSOP and won a bracelet in Event #12 $1,500 Limit Hold Em event. He continued his great play at the 2011 WSOP with his second career bracelet when he won Event #52 $2,500 Mixed Holdem. He continued his strong WSOP with a third career bracelet in Event #16 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed. He has cashed for nearly $3,000,000 in live poker tournaments, including over twenty times in the WSOP.

He has a Bachelor's degree in mathematics from Yale University and a Master's degree in fiction writing from Sarah Lawrence College. A former software quality engineer, Matt now focuses his time on both poker as well as writing columns for Cardplayer magazine. 

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION:  CHICAGO,IL

JBaller88 built his poker foundation through CardRunners and live games, eventually finding his niche in the six-max cash games.  Citing tilt-control and bankroll management as cornerstones to his success, he's surpassed over $100,000 in winnings, most of it from 9-12 tabling 200NL on Full Tilt Poker.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

jcl is a law student at the University of Sydney. He took up poker in 2006, after Joe Hachem’s WSOP win led to Australia's very own poker boom. He started with home games and pub tournaments and soon transitioned to online SNG's with an $80 deposit on PartyPoker. Over the years he has found his niche in six-max cash games and now plays 10-20 NLHE online regularly.

Toward the end of 2008, jcl started dabbling in tournaments, and he finds that his skills transfer well. He has a $50,000 score online and two $40,000 scores live, one of which was 146th place in his first WSOP Main Event.

VIDEOS: POKERTAINMENT
LOCATION: LOS ANGELES, CA
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JimmyLegs attended the UCLA Film School and spent some time writing for Disney TV Animation before deciding to be a stay-at-home dad.  Always a passionate recreational player, he turned to online poker as a stimulating and convenient part-time job.  After proving to be a consistently winning heads-up player, he became a sponsored low-limit instructor on CardRunners. Now, as one of their new breed of video producers, JimmyLegs has found the perfect fusion of his two great passions: poker and filmmaking.

POKER LAW BULLETIN
LOCATION: NEW YORK, NY

Jordan M. Alpert, editor of Poker Law Bulletin, is a U.S. lawyer based in New York who spent eight years practicing corporate litigation at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.  He received his undergraduate degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and his juris doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law.  He also is a poker enthusiast. 

VIDEOS: MTTS
LOCATION: DULUTH, MN
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Jschnett, currently a student at the University of Minnesota, is known for having an almost clairvoyant sense of the flow of the game, and for using it to understand both when to be patient and when he can pick up the pot. His results reflect this expertise. On his 18th birthday Jeffrey final tabled a Heartland Poker Tour event. Since then he has scores in countless more tournaments, including a 6th place finish in a WCOOP $1k event for $107,000.

VIDEOS: FULL-RING NLHE
LOCATION: SOUTHBOROUGH, MA

Kush is a disciplined poker player whose professional approach to the game has paid off, as he is one of the winningest full-ring players in small and mid-stakes NLHE.  He started playing with friends and has turned what was an initial hobby into a serious business for himself.  Although he's focused on cash games right now, his biggest achievements in poker have come in MTTs, including a win in the UB $200k guarantee tournament.

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING
LOCATION: BOUND BROOK, NJ

Lana discovered poker when she caught the WSOP on TV during a recovery from ankle surgery. She immediately organized a home game, and started playing online in freerolls and $5 SNGs. She attended Vassar College and New York University School of Law before turning her poker hobby into a career change.

Prior to joining CardRunners, she practiced law with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and worked for the San Jose Earthquakes and Accenture.  She plays mainly low stakes MTTs and super turbo SNGs.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX PLO
LOCATION: CHICAGO, IL

LearnedFromTV is a PLO and mixed games specialist, known for his theoretical foundation and strong math ability.  Not surprisingly, he is a former math teacher and started out playing LHE and MTTs in 2004.  After a brief stint playing NLHE cash he decided in late 2007 to tackle PLO. His first series for CR is a 12-part series on post-flop PLO play, and he is collaborating with other CR instructors for many of the installments.  He continues to travel occasionally for live tournaments, but rarely plays live NLHE and PLO cash games due to their slower pace. In his spare time he enjoys watching sports, particularly basketball, and his favorite television show is the Wire.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX PLO
LOCATION: HEMLOCK, MI

lefty2506 has been playing and beating PLO games from 10-20 to 100-200 for years. He doesn’t look for default lines or quick answers: he sees every situation as a “poker problem,” to which he finds the most complete answer he can.

Lefty attributes much of his success to the way he has integrated his poker life and his life off the felt. He sees his diet, sleep schedule, and exercise as extensions of his mental game at poker, and he is presently finishing his BBA at the Ross Business School at the University of Michigan. Lefty treats poker like a career and in doing so has made himself one of the best PLO careers of anyone online.

VIDEOS: HEADS-UP POT-LIMIT OMAHA
LOCATION: NORWAY 

Liqqa is a 20 year old poker player from Norway. He built his bankroll by playing lowstakes SNG in 2007, before settling in at NLHE HU cash. A few years later, he began studying heads-up PLO and has played it exclusively for about two years. He will be making mid-stakes heads-up PLO videos

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION: NEW YORK, NY
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Llama88, a full-time student, balances a high-volume poker career along with schoolwork, but his "quality over quantity" approach has made him one of the toughest shorthanded players at .5-1 and 1-2 NLHE. He is patient but aggressive, and combines solid, straightforward play with a keen awareness of how he is viewed at the table.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION: BOWLING GREEN, OH
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For the last year and a half, the mid-stakes NLHE games have gotten tougher and tougher, but m_reed05 has kept winning. A regular at limits between 5-10 and 25-50, he is particularly strong at analyzing his opponents' tendencies and staying one step ahead of their adjustments. He talks poker regularly with friends to improve his game and his even-keeled personality keeps him from tilting. In his spare time he can be found golfing and traveling.

VIDEOS: SNGS
LOCATION: NAANTALI, FINLAND

A graduate during the economic downtime, Teemu Alanen turned to playing poker professionally as a way to make a living.  An airline pilot by education, he found that he had a knack for the SNG format and the always-changing dynamics.  After being a mediocre regular for a large sample of hands, he re-evaluated his approach to the game and became a consistent winner with an impressive ROI.  He credits his ability to exploit the weaker regs for his success and has become one of the biggest winners in the $16-$60 SNGs.

VIDEOS: HEADS-UP NLHE
LOCATION: VANCOUVER, CANADA

Markuis started playing six-max, but now plays almost exclusively heads-up.  He varies his approach from other small stakes heads-up players, and enjoys teaching to members.  He mainly plays 50-200 NL but when he's not in school he moves up as high as 600NL.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION:  LAS VEGAS, NV

Marshall28 graduated from SDSU with a bachelor's degree in Philosophy in July of 2007.  He went to graduate school for a few weeks, but decided he'd rather focus on poker  He has spent the last few years studying and playing poker exclusively.  Marshall28 regularly plays 200NL and 400NL six-max NLHE, and will be producing videos from 50NL through 400NL.  

In addition to playing, he is also a coach and has also an article published in the Two Plus Two Magazine. 

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NLHE, GAME THEORY
LOCATION:  SACRAMENTO, CA

Matt has liked game theory ever since taking a course on it at UCLA, and now focuses primarily on the math and theory behind poker for designing ranges and analyzing complex situations. Since Black Friday, Matt has not played but instead focused purely on the mathematics behind the game, which is one of the reasons why almost all of his videos on the site are theory and/or flopzilla based.today. 

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION: COLUMBIA, SC

MDoranD deposited $50 on Party Poker back in the day to play $5 SNGs, but switched over to cash after discovering he enjoyed deep stack poker.  He mainly plays .10-.25 but is a winner up to 1-2.  He averages 12 tables, wins consistently at 4+ ptbb, and stresses table selection as an important factor in his success.  Before he begins a session he warms up his mind by doing a puzzle or sudoku, and in between sessions he takes care of his family, including two beautiful daughters.  He also spends his spare time cheering on the New England Patriots.

VIDEOS: MULTI-TABLE TOURNAMENTS
LOCATION: TAMPA, FLORIDA
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MeatBuoy is a part-time lawyer who works as a lobbyist for SildenafilPAC, a small, relatively unknown Public Action Committee funded by the AARP. After dropping out in high school, he sought a means for funding his StarCraft addiction/treatment through various avenues, including but not limited to odd jobs: house cleaning, tutoring calculus, and working as editor-in-chief for Karaoke!, a Japanese songbook magazine based out of Dubai. 

Meat returned to the US to pursue his education and build his fortune and glory but was derailed by a derailed train, which landed on top of his car. During the extensive subsequent recooperation and physical therapy, Meat turned to poker to pass the time. Discovering he had a knack for the nuances of the game and a fondness for the patterns, strategy, and fluidity of it as well, he began studying voraciously. He regularly plays low-limit cash games and tournaments with consistent results. When he's not playing poker he spends most of his time relearning to walk. 

VIDEOS: MTT
LOCATION: DENMARK

Mement_mori  started off as a Magic: The Gathering player.  After becoming a CardRunners member and discovering poker forums, he successfully transitioned his knack for cards to the virtual felt.  He found his niche grinding MTTs and can now be found playing every high-stakes MTT offered each night across multiple poker rooms. 

His biggest wins include 2 Gold FTOPS Jerseys for two wins.  He also had final table appearances in back-to-back days of the 2010 SCOOP on PokerStars for $160k and $72k, respectively. In 2012, he won the PokerStars EPT Copenhagen for DKK 2,515,000. Petersen is also a member of PokerStars Team Online.

He has well over a million dollars in winnings on both Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars and will begin playing on the European Poker Tour circuit this fall.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX & HEADS-UP LIMIT HOLDEM
LOCATION: CHICAGO, IL 

MisterBunny began playing Fixed Limit Hold'em online in 2004 as an engineering student at Brown University.  He brings a highly analytical approach to the game, and focuses his efforts on identifying and maximally exploiting errors in his opponents’ strategies.  

Through over five years of playing and studying Fixed Limit Hold'em he has developed a highly aggressive style of play intended to exploit weak opponents.  Today he mostly plays heads-up through 6-handed at the 10/20 to 30/60 levels.

VIDEOS: MTTS
LOCATION: BALTIMORE, MD
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Between mLagoo's first and second years of law school, he won a freeroll to the WSOP Main Event and made $3,500 in cash games before he left Las Vegas. When he got back to law school, he came down with severe appendicitis, and while bedridden won another $12,500. That $16,000 was the makings of a bankroll -- he was disillusioned with law school, gave poker a shot, and soon after won the Sunday Million.

mLagoo's strongest skills are postflop, especially turn and river play. These give him a big edge in the early stages of tournaments, when stacks are deeper. He does not consider himself a "natural," but he is a better CardRunners instructor as a result. The homework for his own game is material he effectively communicates in videos.

VIDEOS: MTTS, SIX-MAX AND HEADS-UP NLHE
LOCATION: LOS GATOS, CA

Isaac "Mr. Menlo" Baron has already had a lifetime's worth of poker success, but he's in his early twenties and nowhere close to slowing down. Isaac, formerly known on Full Tilt as “the guru 11,” won the Card Player Player of the Year award for a 2007 that included wins in the FTP $750,000 Guaranteed and many other major online tournaments. Isaac then went on to win the first event of FTOPS XIII in 2008.

Isaac's successes have gone far beyond the online tournament arena. Before he took 4th in the 2008 EPT Main Event in Monte Carlo, he had already finished 11th in the San Remo event.  In late 2009, he took 1st in the Caesars Palace Classic.  With these and other live cashes, Isaac has amassed over $3,000,000 in live tournament winnings despite his youth. Equally impressive are his cash-game credentials: he is skilled both at NLHE and PLO cash games, playing and beating high stakes in both games.

VIDEOS: MTTS
LOCATION: TORONTO, CANADA
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muckducks started playing poker with his brother at their kitchen table accruing large debts (that neither could afford to pay) by playing with paper clips. He organized home games, but when his friends no longer wanted to play, he sought out games on Party Poker. After going broke a few times, and learning bankroll management in the process, he now plays mid to high stakes MTTs.

He plays almost every big tournament online and knows when to put his opponents to the test for their whole stack. He has a keen sense for table dynamics, and when he senses weakness he has no trouble pulling the trigger.  His biggest win was FTOPS Event #1 in February 2009 for $216,000, reaching his long-standing goal of winning a big online tournament.

VIDEOS: HEADS-UP AND SIX-MAX NLHE, PLO, COUNT THE ZEROS
LOCATION: CHICAGO, IL

Andrew "Muddywater" Wiggins, one of the founders of CardRunners, took up poker his senior year of high school, playing .25-.50 NLHE with friends. He had trouble finding games when he started at the University of Illinois and began playing .25-.50 PLHE on Party Poker. After Taylor Caby introduced him to Ultimate Bet, he began playing $5 SNGs. He started winning consistently and by the end of the school year was beating $20 SNGs and winning his way into higher-stakes MTTs.

During the first week of the summer of 2004, Muddywater placed fifth in a $200 tournament and won a $100 tournament. He never looked back: When school resumed, Andrew was consistently beating $100 SNGs and high-stakes online tournaments. By the end of the year, he had begun to focus on cash games. He beat 2-4 NLHE immediately; several months later he moved up to 5-10.



Muddywater has cashed in both a World Poker Tour event and a World Series of Poker event, and though he’s beaten higher stakes, he now focuses on multi-tabling SNGS and mid-stakes NLHE. When he isn't playing poker, he enjoys playing the guitar, golfing and traveling.  He lives near Wrigley Field in Chicago and is an avid fan of Chicago sports teams.

PODCAST HOST
LOCATION: UNITED KINGDOM

Nick Wealthall is a poker lover who has found success as a player, a media personality, a poker author and podcast host.  Formerly co-host of the "On the Rail" podcast with Kara Scott, he has also been involved with Poker Night Live, Sky Poker, and PokerStars.

He is author and host of the Pro Chat podcasts at CardRunners focusing heavily on high-level strategy and discussion with CR Pros.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION: LAS VEGAS, NEVADA

John 'Nicolak" Kim's poker career began in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1998.  A novice at the time, he purchased dozens of poker books and dedicated himself to improvement, becoming a poker student.

After relocating to Los Angeles, he became a regular at the Commerce Casino and began structuring his life as a professional poker player.  He also taught his wife to become a winning player.  He had continued success at the $20/$40 Limit games and eventually moved to Las Vegas in 2003 -- the boom of No Limit Holdem.

Today he is a regular at the 2-4 through 5-10 NL games on Full Tilt Poker, playing under the alias 'Nicolak'.  He has amassed hundreds of thousands of dollars in winnings and is also a co-host on the Cash Plays podcast at CardRunners.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION:
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nutedawg was only a marginal winner until 2006, when he watched some of Taylor Caby's videos. Several "aha!" moments later, he was a new poker player. Even after he became a winner at 5-10 and 10-20 NLHE, he contined to watch tons of videos, and he does so to this day. This has allowed him both to continue to learning from his opponents and to know exactly what the current trends in the game are.

nutedawg believes that many players have a certain level of abstract knowledge of the game, but that very few of them actually apply that knowledge consistently over the felt. Therefore, his teaching emphasizes the constant application of all the relevant poker concepts, without shortcuts or auto-piloting. Not only does this teach strong, solid play, it allows one to see nonstandard plays. These plays -- extreme underbets and overbets, for example -- are some of his specialties, and he teaches them, and much more, in his CardRunners videos.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION: ATLANTA, GA

 
A graduate of Clemson University, NxtWrldChamp began his poker career grinding the daily $5 buy-in MTTs on Party Poker.  After joining CardRunners in 2005, he began to take the game a bit more seriously and ascended the stakes of the full-ring games on Full Tilt.  He climbed quickly from 25NL to 400NL before deciding to move over to the six-max games due to the lack of full-ring games running.

After hiring a coach and working hard at his game, he is now a consistent regular in the 400NL and 600NL games on Full Tilt Poker.

VIDEOS: HEADS-UP, FULL-RING AND SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION: SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Eric "p3achy keen" Lui played StarCraft and Counter-Strike in high school, and when he discovered poker, he began by grinding .05-.10. He became a CardRunners member and moved up in stakes. During his sophomore year at Duke University he turned $200 into $35,000. After cashing that out for spending money he started grinding again at .50-1, won a bad beat jackpot for $110,000, and immediately moved up to 5-10, where he won immediately. Within a year, he was beating games up to 200-400; since then, he has played as big as 500-1000.

He considers himself primarily a cash player, but p3achy has also been success in tournaments. In 2008 he finished 16th at the EPT in Monte Carlo for  €55,200. Soon thereafter, that October, he final-tabled the EPT Championship in London, finishing fourth for £234,920. He just missed the final table of the WSOP Europe Main Event in 2009, with a 10th place finish for £51,536.

P3achy has appeared on two seasons of the Poker Channel's European Cash Game, and was the big winner in 2008. He currently plays all variations of NL and PLO 5-10 and up.

VIDEOS: GAME THEORY
LOCATION: PHOENIX, AZ

Pokey began playing poker at 6 years of age, but it wasn’t until 2005 that he began dabbling in online poker. After discovering the online poker community in 2006 he became a serious student of the game.

He has a Ph.D. in Economics, and though he teaches at college level, he doesn’t offer any one-on-one poker lessons.  However, he’s always happy to answer PMs about specific questions.  He is known as one of the most popular small stakes posters from the TwoPlusTwo forums, earning the custom title: "Best Poster Ever."  You can now find him also posting in the small stakes forums at CardRunners.

VIDEOS: FULL-RING, SIX-MAX AND HEADS-UP NLHE
LOCATION: FAIRFIELD, CT
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PoorUser started off playing Starcraft in high school, but transferred his skills to poker after a friend taught him the game. He 16-tables at stakes ranging from 5-10 to 100-200 and his unorthodox approach relies on adaptation and hand reading. He still finds time for Starcraft, table tennis, soccer and chess away from the poker table, and is currently finishing up a degree in Psychology.

VIDEOS: PLO8
LOCATION: INDIANAPOLIS, IN

Predator006 has been playing PLO8 since mid-2005. His poker career began by playing an $11 SNG at a friend’s house, which thanks to some run-good, he won. Without ever depositing, he rattled off a 33 month winning streak before his first losing month. Predator typically plays cash game stakes from 200PLO8 - 2000PLO8.  

He was a pioneer in the game of No Limit Omaha Hi Low, developing an extremely successful short-stacking strategy. Predator is a big advocate of table selection and proper money management.

Predator says ”I was lucky when starting out to be able to watch a friend play 20,000+ hands of PLO8 while I played small stakes NLHE SNG’s. This greatly shortened or possibly even eliminated the learning curve where most new players lose money and give up. PLO8 is a great way to build a bankroll. It has much less variance than any other form of poker due to the split pot format.” 

VIDEOS: SNGS
LOCATION: DANBURY, NH

PrimordialAA is a HU SNG specialist who also plays MTTs and mixed games.  His average stake is $440 but he'll play anywhere from $220 to $5k. He discovered poker on a high school trip to DC for Presidential Classroom when his roommate taught him how to play.  After using his winnings on a Georgetown hoodie, he deposited money online and hasn't looked back.  He's known for his solid, clear analysis and motivational volume prop bets with friends.

VIDEO PRODUCER
LOCATION: SYRACUSE, NY

Many players dabble in the mixed games, but when they do, they tend to lose their money to specialists like Przytula. He has been playing 2-7 triple draw seriously for four years, and he has a top-tier understanding of the game. 

Theoretical understanding isn't everything, however, and Przytula also excels in translating his knowledge into profit. Triple draw is a high-variance game, but Przytula doesn't tilt.  He attributes this to having mellowed with age. Przytula teaches how to focus on every move you make in a hand while discerning your opponent's tendencies in his CardRunners videos, and he does it with his trademark sense of humor.  When he's not playing poker he can be found spending time with this three children, knitting, or watching re-runs of CHiPs.

VIDEOS: SIT AND GOS
LOCATION: BOSTON, MA
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Pzhon earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from Caltech in 1999. He is a regular columnist on the mathematics of backgammon for GammonVillage.com since 2001.
He has played poker semi-professionally since 2004, playing limit and NL cash games as well as tournaments. He used his poker success to fund two start-up companies. He has published articles in the TwoPlusTwo Internet Magazine, worked as a consultant for a major gaming server, and has written a program (http://www.icmexplorer.com) for studying risk aversion in tournaments.

Most of his videos are related to single table SNGs, which are particularly mathematical. He is currently writing a book on practical poker mathematics with Collin Moshman and a book on analyzed SNG hands. 

VIDEOS: HEADS-UP AND SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION: SANTA FE, NM

David “Raptor” Benefield is one of the most established and feared opponents at the high-stakes. He was originally a SNG pro, and he crushed those games by combining his tournament fundamentals with creativity -- unusual for the format. When David switched to cash games, he worked his way up from the smallest limits, taking shots until he was beating 10-20 NLHE, then 25-50, then 200-400, all the way to Bobby's Room and the 500-1000 hold'em/Omaha mix.

Raptor separates himself from his competition not only with his talent but also with his professional approach to the game. He has managed his money wisely, both in selecting poker games and by investing in real estate. He also studies the game intensely with his former roommate and close friend, Tom “durrrr” Dwan. He is currently a freshman in college, and abstained from playing his entire first semester in an effort to immerse himself in the collegiate experience.

VIDEOS: FULL-RING NLHE
LOCATION:  VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA

Rask has the National Hockey League to thank for his introduction to the game of poker.  During the NHL’s 2004-2005 Lockout, Canadian television substituted poker shows to replace scheduled games.  Through these programs, Rask began playing small stakes home games and eventually dabbling in live games after his 18th birthday.

Starting at the 200NL level, he quickly gained momentum and was soon playing 1000NL comfortably.  After moving to college and opting to by-pass a collegiate golf career, he signed up to an online poker room and is now a regular in the 400NL+ full-ring games at Full Tilt and offers 1-on-1 private lessons for full-ring players up to the 400NL level.

VIDEOS: FULL-RING NLHE
LOCATION: CALGARY. ALBERTA 

 
RonFar3 is a Full-Ring specialist who earned Supernova Elite status on PokerStars.  He has played over three million hands at 100NL and occasionally plays as high as 600NL with game selection.

He started his career at 25NL and steadily built his bankroll as a student of the game.  He found his niche at the 100NL games and leveraged his Supernova Elite perks into an entry for the EPT Monte Carlo tournament, cashing for over $20,000.  He credits his strong work ethic, his avoidance of tilt, as well as his ability to sustain focus for his success at the tables. 

VIDEOS: HEADS-UP AND SIX-MAX PLO, NLHE
LOCATION: SANTA BARBARA, CA
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Brian "Sbrugby" Townsend started playing home games and .25-.50 limit in August '05 but quickly moved up in stakes. In 2006 he became a professional player and switched from limit to no-limit.  Within a year Brian was playing the largest NLHE games in the world. He added PLO to his repertoire more recently and his latest challenge is learning mixed games, including Omaha 8 or better, Stud 8 or better, Razz and Triple Draw. He was the first primarily online player to be featured on the cover of Card Player and he has made TV appearances on the most popular televised cash game, High Stakes Poker on the Game Show Network, and in the Million Dollar Cash Game on Sky Sports. Brian currently plays NLHE from 10-20 deepstack and higher, and PLO from 25-50 deepstack and higher.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION: DENVER, COLORADO
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Schaffem111 has been playing poker in some form since before many CardRunners 

members were born.  After years of recreational play in home games, small-stakes Los Angeles cardrooms, and online SNGs, he decided to take the game more seriously while working as a television agent in Hollywood. 

When his firm offered him a contract buyout, schaffem111 took the opportunity to dive into the game full time, focusing on six-max cash games from 50NL to 600NL.  He also played live, primarily at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, which led him to develop CardRunners first ever video series about live play.  He added coaching to his poker activities in late 2008, and has to date coached over 70 students from all over the world in six-max NLHE. 

He lives with his wife, two small kids, and a pug and his favorite hobby is sitting on the deck in front of an amazing mountain view, while sipping scotch and discussing politics.

VIDEOS: HEADS-UP, SIX-MAX AND FULL-RING LHE
LOCATION: MINNEAPOLIS, MN

Limit might not get the attention, but it is where Schneids gets the money. He regularly plays 100-200 when the games are available, and has beat games as high as 1000-2000.  He started, like many, playing home games with friends, and first grinded low-limit games online before moving up in stakes.

 Schneids has also made his mark in tournaments. His biggest win was the PartyPoker Million V, for $1 million, and he has also won multiple tournaments held at Canterbury Park in his native Minnesota.  He has a degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota, and when he's not playing poker he enjoys attending Minnesota professional sporting events and traveling the world.

VIDEOS: HEADS-UP NO LIMIT HOLDEM
LOCATION: ENGLAND

Stefan Haffner started dabbling in poker online back in 2007 after graduating from the University of Sussex with a degree in music. He started playing $3 SNGs before moving on to MTTs and microstakes NL cash games. 

After joining CardRunners, he honed his skills and began building a bankroll, which lead to his decision to postpone his career as a professional pianist and play poker. After two years of playing, he began studying game theory and successfully applying those concepts to his own game. He can now be found playing $600NL to $1000NL heads-up across several different sites. He will be producing mid-high stakes heads-up NLHE videos at CardRunners.

VIDEOS: LIMIT OMAHA H/L
LOCATION: ONTARIO, CANADA

A Limit Omaha Hi/Lo specialist, “Shabamabam”, made the transition from hold'em after winning the first O8 tournament he ever played. He now focuses on the mid-stakes games at the 15-30 to 50-100 level under the moniker Lacey Duvalle and also spends time coaching.

VIDEOS: SIT AND GOS
LOCATION: VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA

Sippin_Criss is a successful low stakes SNG player, and has been playing online poker since 2005.  He is known for his high volume and consistent results.  Outside of playing thousands of SNGs per month, poker has afforded him the time and freedom to practice and pursue a professional golf career on the Canadian PGA Tour.  He currently spends half of his time in Phoenix and the other half of his time on Vancouver Island.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX AND FULL-RING NLHE, MTTS
LOCATION: SAN DIEGO, CA
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One of SixPeppers’ first goals at poker was to win $10,000 in a day. Within months, he had accomplished it twice: once in cash games and once from a tournament score. He then joked that the next goal was a $100,000 day, which he accomplished with a $102,000 tournament score. Goals like that aren’t as important to him these days -- his focus is on crushing the 10-20 and 25-50 NLHE games.

SixPeppers works to avoid tilt and always bring his best game, but his methods don’t include yoga or meditation. He usually prepares for a session by playing a first-person shooter video game: this lets him see whether he is thinking in a strong, creative way. When he's not playing poker he enjoys video games and wakeboarding.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX AND HEADS-UP PLO
LOCATION: NORWAY

Andreas “Skjervøy” Torbergsen was first introduced to poker by his father in his hometown of Skjervøy, Norway.  He began playing in a recreational weekly game with his friends at the age of 19.  It was after a trip to Las Vegas in 2005, where he and his friends opened a small-stakes Pot Limit Omaha table, that Andreas decided to set aside a bankroll exclusive to PLO.  He grinded the games at PartyPoker, eventually playing at the $2000PLO level in late 2006. 

From there he continued his ascent to higher stakes, becoming one of the most consistent and largest winners in the nosebleed games.  

He plays under the screen name “Skjervoy” on Full Tilt Poker, where he is a Red Pro and member of Team CardRunners

VIDEOS: PODCASTS
LOCATION: SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

Mark "SpartanFox" Gahagan is a Computer Science graduate student who first started playing poker seriously in 2008. After initially struggling, he spent many hours pouring through poker books and instructional videos on CardRunners and Stoxpoker until he felt ready to truly compete in the poker world. And while grad school still takes up the bulk of his time, he has found a medium through which he could share his love of the game with others: podcasts. After starting a podcast on his own and receiving a decent following, he now does podcasts exclusively for CardRunners, helping the poker community understand the world through his eyes.

While not an expert yet, SpartanFox feels that away from the table skills and mantaining a healthy lifestyle are keys to success in poker and tries hard to maintain a balance between life and poker. When not actually playing poker or doing research, you can find him spending time with his friends, playing basketball, or trying to better understand the game he has grown to enjoy so much.

VIDEOS: FULL RING NLHE
LOCATION: LAS VEGAS, NV
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SplitSuit got into playing poker in casual dorm games at college.  Between classes he would play SNGs and MTTs, and eventually found his way over to cash games.  He began playing full ring cash games in 2007 and plays at the 100NL level.   

After graduating from Syracuse University in 2008, he decided to continue playing poker rather than dive into the corporate world.  That same summer, SplitSuit began making videos for Stoxpoker between his schedule of students and grinding.  He still coaches regularly, and is constantly improving his teaching tactics in his videos, 1-on-1 sessions, and even group coaching sessions. He is also currently writing a Full-Ring No-Limit Strategy book as well as transitioning into day trading.

VIDEOS: SMALL STAKES MTTS
LOCATION: COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA
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SpurrierFTW is a student at the University of South Carolina.  Growing up around great players like MDoranD and CKingUSC, he was able to improve his MTT game and translate it to some deep runs in the small stakes MTTs.  He's notched over $100k in prizes online and chopped a tournament at Turning Stone for $20k.

VIDEOS: MIXED GAMES
LOCATION: CHICAGO, IL

Steve Albini learned poker from his great grandmother growing up, and he plays primarily stud and mixed games.  His first few videos for CardRunners focus on the basics of razz, including hand selection and extracting value.

He is also a sound engineer and produced Nirvana's "In Utero." If Steve's not in the studio or playing poker, he's rocking out with his band, Shellac of North America, playing baseball, cooking, or spending time with his wife and three cats.

VIDEOS: HEADS-UP AND SIX-MAX PLO
LOCATION: ITHACA, NY 

Brian "Stinger" Hastings began playing poker his junior year of high school in small home games, and started online at .05-.10 NLHE. He grew his bankroll in tournaments and then went back to cash, where he's currently playing as high as 500-1,000 PLO. You can also find him at the NLHE and 7-game tables. 

He holds the record for the largest winning online session, after defeating Isildur1 for over $4 Million at $500/$1k PLO.  

Although he's playing some of the highest cash stakes online, Brian still plays an occasional tournament. He finished 2nd in an FTOPS XIII event, a $2500 NLHE six-max tournament, for $297,500. After graduating from Cornell University in 2011, he won Event #12 of the WPT Regional Summer Splash, earning $213,877 and his first WPT Title.

VIDEOS: HEADS-UP NLHE
LOCATION: SAN DIEGO, CA
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Applying familiar concepts to a new game can be a tough poker challenge, but it is one thatpfunk has met brilliantly. Last year he made the transition to PLO from NLHE, where he was and still is able to win at the higher limits.

Heads-up is thatpfunk's specialty, and he accepts the enormous bankroll swings as a part of his job. In his heads-up videos for CardRunners, he explains how he approaches every hand in a session, and how a good understanding of basic poker concepts can allow a player to find "out-of-the-box" plays.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX & HEADS-UP LHE
LOCATION:  EDMONTON, ALBERTA
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Bryce has over $3 million in lifetime winnings online. He has produced over 100 coaching videos for Stoxpoker and is a specialist in heads-up LHE.  His career highlight was making $2.5M in 2007 from the high stakes limit hold em games. 

He also is a published author of many articles for CardPlayer, TwoPlusTwo, and Canadian Poker Player.  Bryce also offers private coaching for aspiring players.

VIDEOS: MTTS
LOCATION: WATERLOO, CANADA

Mike "Timex" McDonald began his online poker career when he opened a poker account to get a free chip set.  Initially he played micro-stakes LHE and low buy-in tournaments, and started playing live once he built up his bankroll.  He devoted a lot of time to studying the game, and worked hard to develop fundamentals.

In February 2008, he took first in EPT Dortmund for almost one million Euros. 2009 was also successful, as he finished 5th at EPT Dortmund, 4th at WPT Venice, and 11th at EPT Barcelona.  He won a side event at the NAPT Bahamas in 2010 for over $146k, and final tabled EPT Deauville finishing in third place for over 400k.  He also had his largest online tournament score ever, winning the Ongame Grand Slam Final for $156k.  Timex has nearly $3.5 million in lifetime live tournament cashes.

In 2011 he won the second-ever Epic Poker Tour event for $782,410 and finished 3rd at an EPT San Remo Event less than two months later.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX LIMIT HOLDEM
LOCATION: OAKLAND, CA
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Armed with a passion for gambling and cards, TPirahna gave up a job in "Corporate America" to pursue a professional poker career.  His ability to put in tremendous volume as well as his logical approach to the game have made TPirahna a fixture in the 15-30+ games.  He finished in the top 115 of the WSOP Main Event in 2005.  TPirahna credits StoxPoker videos, in particular Bryce Paradis's videos, for his success and ability to sustain downswings and variance.

VIDEOS: MTTS
LOCATION: PROVO, UT
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TranquilChaos started playing professionally in 2005, after years of playing home games with his father.  He won a seat to the WPT Aruba and came in fourth for 200k.  A bankroll was born, and he's also finished third in a WPT, along with a third and fourth place finish in two WSOPs. These days he plays more for his wife and son than the glory, but he still wins due to his applied aggression and ability to read other players at his table.

PODCASTS
LOCATION: NEW YORK, NEW YORK

Matt "Tyresias" Kaufman is a stockbroker from New York City.  A great deal of the time he spends away from Wall Street is at the poker tables, where he can regularly be found playing low to mid stakes mixed games and tournaments.  As of yet his biggest online poker accomplishment is a win in the Full Tilt Sunday Night Horse, and he is working towards breaking through to the higher limits as well.  Matt studied Economics and Computer Science at Hunter College.

VIDEOS: MULTI-TABLE TOURNAMENTS
LOCATION: MELBOURNE, FLORIDA
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"Unknowneinstein" started playing poker at the age of 18 after his dad introdced the game to him.  He is currently a student at Florida Institute of Technology and expects to graduate May 2011.  He played poker casually for about two years and decided to take it seriously at the start of his junior year (Fall 2009) when he quit his part-time job to dedicate more time to online poker.  

After quitting his job, he joined CardRunners to further his game and hasn't looked back since.  He specializes in $10-$50 MTTs and also plays 100NL RUSH.  He can be seen playing under "unknowneinstein" on Full Tilt or "4eversleepy" on Absolute Poker.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION: ATHENS, GA

Verneer is a former math teacher who went pro in the fall of 2008. He got his start in graduate school, playing poker for pennies, and then found CardRunners, where he learned how to beat .50-1 and 1-2 NL solidly. Those games are where thrives today. They are enough for him to support his household, and he understands the play at those limits intimately.

Verneer emphasizes the importance of integrating poker into your life in a healthy way. He plays fewer hours than some pros, but works to make sure that he is always playing his best game. This not only lets him achieve his best win rate, but ensures that he keeps on improving during the time he spends at the tables. When he’s not playing poker, he spends time with his wife and dog, reads, and plays pickup sports.

VIDEOS: HIGH-STAKES MTTs
LOCATION: WATERLOO, CANADA

Will Ma was introduced to poker while attending math camp in high school with Mike "Timex" McDonald.  As his friend began to experience huge success in tournaments, Ma found himself consuming as much knowledge about the game as possible.

Ma found time to earn over $1 million in online winnings while also pursuing his PhD in mathematics.  He's won the Full Tilt 1k, the PokerStars 1k, the Absolute Dream package, and the PokerStars Wednesday 250k Guarantee.  

In addition to his success online, Ma won the 2007 Grand Prix de Paris in 2007 for 430k Euros as well as final tabling the APPT Macau High Roller.  

VIDEOS: FULL-RING NLHE
LOCATION: SEATTLE, WA

Wooz turned $300 into six figures in one year, and not only did he do it in his spare time, he did it after UIGEA. He credits his incredibly analytical frame of mind and his very determined approach to the game. Wooz is also able to balance poker with his career in biotech, and has plenty of advice to dispense about how best to achieve the balance. He keeps his videos fresh, and avoids tired formats and advice. He plays up to 5-10 NLHE and recently started playing PLO and Omaha 8.

VIDEOS: SIX-MAX LHE
LOCATION: PLEASANT HILL, CA
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Xerok plays some of the biggest limit hold’em games around: up to 100-200 online and 300-600 live. Contrary to the popular perception of limit games as full of standard lines and automatic plays, his perspective allows him to see the suboptimal lines and psychological shortcomings of his opponents. His knowledge and ability to communicate have made winners out of his many students, some of whom only had the goal of breaking even. He is confident that his CardRunners videos will help all members take their limit game to the next level, wherever they are now.

VIDEOS: SMALL STAKES MTTS
LOCATION: ONTARIO, CANADA

Zachjackdad is a fixture in the small stakes MTTs on PokerStars.  Boasting over $100k in profit with an Average Buy-In of only $19, he credits his experience in the tens of thousands of tournaments that he's played to his success.  A part-time player with two sons and a wife, he has found time to balance his family and work with poker, grinding the games primarily in the evening.  He has won over 50 MTTs and has reached over 300 final tables.

VIDEOS: HEADS-UP AND SIX-MAX NLHE
LOCATION: INDIANAPOLIS, IN
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Zaitsev played live sit-n-goes in his dorms before being introduced to online poker by a former roommate.  He is a successful small-stakes NLHE player mainly due to his ability to exploit his opponents – he finds these spots better than many other players in the game. When he is not golfing or playing with his new puppy Eva, Zaitsev is working on his poker game. He spends an hour or two every day discussing hands with his poker network, and has also studied the causes and effects of tilt and the best ways to avoid it.