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		<title>Norman Chad</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-166" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="norman_chad" src="http://www.jepepoker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/norman_chad-150x150.jpg" alt="norman_chad" width="150" height="150" />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.</p>
<p>Norman Chad is also known as one of the best commentator of the World Series of Poker on ESPN. He is also a syndicated columnist whose each column has something for the reader. Recently, he has published his own book that talks about his views on the ESPN as a sports network. It also has his criticism on different sports program.</p>
<p>Chad has been making NFL predictions for the last 11 years. When asked he simply shrugs off by saying that he just tossed the coin to know the winner!</p>
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		<title>Daniel Negreanu biography</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just remebered I haven&#8217;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&#8217;s passion was conceived at a young age. His parents had both left Romania and made a permanent stop in Toronto, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-46" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;" title="daniel-negreanu-profile" src="http://www.jepepoker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/daniel-negreanu-profile.jpg" alt="daniel-negreanu-profile" width="165" height="151" />Just remebered I haven&#8217;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.</p>
<p>Well here it is: Like many people, Daniel Negreanu&#8217;s passion was conceived at a young age. His parents had both left Romania and made a permanent stop in Toronto, where Daniel&#8217;s father became an electrician. Daniel Negreanu, however, didn&#8217;t want to follow in his father&#8217;s electric footsteps, and decided to venture out into the world of poker. He taught himself how to play poker at the meager age of 15, and at 16, turned his passion into a financially pleasing hobby, playing at pool halls and betting with other gamblers. The pleasantry ended when he found himself incapable of graduating high school, which is why Negreanu, at 17, dropped out. When he was 21, he made the decision to move to Las Vegas in order to pursue a career in poker. Unfortunately, luck abandoned him, and with his financial state awry, he moved back to Toronto.</p>
<p>Fortunately, luck, along with talent, re-entered Daniel Negreanu&#8217;s life when he won a couple events at the World Poker Finals. Since then he&#8217;s started his own poker-friendly website, signed with PokerStars, the largest online poker cardroom, and has racked in thousands of dollars by participating in various Tournaments.</p>
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		<title>Champion of the WPT: Daniel Negreanu</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-46" title="daniel-negreanu-profile" src="http://www.jepepoker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/daniel-negreanu-profile.jpg" alt="Daniel Negreanu" width="129" height="118" />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 wins and plenty of poker earned cash to his credit, he still didn’t have one of the things he coveted most: A World Poker Tour victory.</p>
<p><strong>Negreanu’s WPT Chase</strong></p>
<p>Negreanu was determined to nail down that WPT crown, playing in every event he could to give himself his best shot at a title. Finally, in September in Atlantic City, Daniel got his chance. He made it to the final table of the Borgata Poker Open as the chip leader.</p>
<p><strong>No Easy Road</strong></p>
<p>As good as his position seemed, it would be no easy road to victory. Far from being packed with amateurs, this final table was a murderers’ row, containing WSOP main event runner up David</p>
<p>Williams, main event final tablist Josh Arieh, talented pro Chris Tsiprailidis and feared top pro Phil Ivey. In the end, it came down to Negreanu and David Williams, and Negreanu’s well-timed pocket aces were enough to give him the victory.</p>
<p><strong>Keeping the Momentum Going</strong></p>
<p>Not one to let any momentum go to waste, Negreanu was back at the finaltable a few months later for the Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Las Vegas. With the winning experience under his belt, Negreanu went all the way again, defeating the colorful Humberto Brenes for his second WPT title.</p>
<p>Negreanu rounded out the WPT season with a third place finish at the World Poker Open in Tunica, earning him WPT Player of the Year Honors, the respect of his poker peers and a much-deserved sense of poker satisfaction.</p>
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		<title>Chris Ferguson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chris Ferguson was born April of 1963, in Los Angeles California. Although he&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-70" title="541552736_8dd18a6eed" src="http://www.jepepoker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/541552736_8dd18a6eed-150x150.jpg" alt="541552736_8dd18a6eed" width="150" height="150" />Chris Ferguson was born April of 1963, in Los Angeles California. Although he&#8217;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 he played in tournaments during the mid &#8217;90&#8217;s. Overall, Ferguson has won 5 World Series of Poker bracelets, and through tournament winnings, has pulled in more than 7 million dollars. Among those wins, Ferguson was also a large contributor in the launching of Full Tilt Poker, which is an online poker cardroom. It can be viewed from 2 domains: fulltiltpoker.com and fulltiltpoker.net. Ferguson is known for his ability to become unreadable during a match, and the nickname &#8220;Jesus&#8221; isn&#8217;t due to the fact that he plays poker divinely, but because he &#8216;resembles&#8217; Jesus with his dark brown beard and long locks.</p>
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		<title>Mike &#8220;The Mouth&#8221; Matusow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-52" title="matusow" src="http://www.jepepoker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/matusow-280x300.jpg" alt="matusow" width="168" height="180" />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 to attend a gambler&#8217;s anonymous program, due to his addiction towards the trade. When he put his poker passion on a less destructive path, it paid off tremendously in the end. Mike has won hundreds of thousands of dollars in World Series of Poker alone. He&#8217;s also participated in the European Poker Tour, the World Poker tour, and has made appearances on poker shows broadcast on TV. But the list doesn&#8217;t stop there. If anyone knows the name Mike Matusow, they must know what he brings to the table&#8211;no, I&#8217;m not talking about skill for the trade, but something less pleasant and not covert. Like John Mcnea&#8217;s ill-tempered and combative ways are revealed on the tennis court, the same goes for Mike Matusow at the poker table, which is why he&#8217;s called &#8216;The Mouth&#8217;. Trash-talking has earned him a reputation you either love, hate, or admire.</p>
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		<title>Joe Hachem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Hachem&#8217;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&#8217;s career path wasn&#8217;t about to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-65" title="joe_hachem__joseph__260779c" src="http://www.jepepoker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/joe_hachem__joseph__260779c-217x300.jpg" alt="joe_hachem__joseph__260779c" width="152" height="210" />Joe Hachem&#8217;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&#8217;s career path wasn&#8217;t about to lead him into the hands of poker. Initially, he had decided to become a chiropractor, but after things didn&#8217;t work out, he chose poker as a career worth pursuing.</p>
<p>Over the past few years, Hachem has been traveling around the world, competing in poker tournaments and coming out with a handful of wins and modest earnings. His name didn&#8217;t become as well known to many poker fanatics until, in December, he won over two million dollars when he won his very first World Poker Tour. Since then, and even before that day, Hachem has won thousands in winnings, and it doesn&#8217;t look like he&#8217;s ready to slow down. His bank account, which has brought in over 10 million dollars in poker earnings, is the affirmation anyone with a morsel of doubt will need if ever they chose to doubt Hachem&#8217;s credibility.</p>
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		<title>Phil Hellmuth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you give up your 4 incredible years in college for the chance to pursue an uncertain career? If you&#8217;re not among those who would say Yes, then you&#8217;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&#8217;re a fan [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-68" title="phil_hellmuth_2" src="http://www.jepepoker.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/phil_hellmuth_2-150x150.jpg" alt="phil_hellmuth_2" width="150" height="150" />Would you give up your 4 incredible years in college for the chance to pursue an uncertain career? If you&#8217;re not among those who would say Yes, then you&#8217;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.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of Hellmuth and you consider him to be either the best poker player ever, or among the few, you&#8217;re not entirely out of place to be throwing around an accusation like that. They&#8217;re not blind, that&#8217;s for sure. After coming in first place in 20 tournaments and taking home 11 bracelets, at the very least, Hellmuth is one of the better players that has walked this earth. If that&#8217;s not good enough, then you might consider the fact that Hellmuth won 3 gold bracelets in just one year. Only 2 other players in this world can say they match up to that astounding talent. Phil Helmuth, aka &#8216;The Poker Brat&#8217;, was born in July of 1964, in Wisconsin. He currently lives with his wife and 2 children&#8211;his wife is also a famous poker player. You may recall the phrase &#8216;trash-talker&#8217; in Matusow&#8217;s biography. Well, that same phrase can be applied to Hellmuth. He&#8217;s not only famously known for playing and winning game after game&#8230;he&#8217;s controversially known for his disrespectful remarks to fellow players.</p>
<p>You can watch some fun videos of him here, <a title="Phil Hellmuth blows. Alot of fun poker videos/clips of Celebrities!" href="http://www.pokercelebrities.org/category/phil-hellmuth">Phil Hellmuth</a>.</p>
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