Maybe not a poker player, but yet an important figure in the poker scene. Norman Chad is a well known sportswriter who was born in 1958. Chad is a Cuban from his maternal side. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1976.
Norman Chad is also known as one of the best commentator of the [...]
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Just remebered I haven’t made a biography of Daniel Negreanu! A couple of months back I wrote a blogpost about his WPT/WSOP performmances, but no real biography.
Well here it is: Like many people, Daniel Negreanu’s passion was conceived at a young age. His parents had both left Romania and made a permanent stop in Toronto, [...]
Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu was one of the first celebrities borne out of the WPT/WSOP poker era. Negreanu’s boyish good looks, charm and talent made him a natural to represent the new, more clean cut, more acceptable face of poker. While by 2004, long before he had his Poker Stars, Negreanu had WSOP bracelets, tournament [...]
Chris Ferguson was born April of 1963, in Los Angeles California. Although he’s been playing poker before reaching his double digits, Ferguson went on to UCLA, where he got his PH.D in computer science. He took that intelligence with him as he played poker in chat rooms all through college, and continued skillfully dominating when [...]
On April 30th, 1968, Mike Matusow entered the world. From a young age, he harbored the unmistakable passion towards gambling, like many professionals, but unfortunately for Matusow, it came in cataclysmic doses. Rather than taking his passion and using it constructively, Matusow found himself stealing from his mother, playing videopoker at casinos and being reduced [...]
Joe Hachem’s famous name is pronounced as Joe Hashem, and, while the names sound very familiar, he holds no relation to Joe Hasham. Hachem was born in Lebanon in November of 1966, but moved to Australia with his family when he was six years old. Unlike the two above, Hachem’s career path wasn’t about to [...]
Would you give up your 4 incredible years in college for the chance to pursue an uncertain career? If you’re not among those who would say Yes, then you’re nothing like Phil Hellmuth. After dropping out of the University of Wisconsin, Phil Hellmuth went off to pursue a topsy-tervy career in poker.
If you’re a fan [...]