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Poker Night In America
''Poker Night in America'' (PNIA) is a poker television program which features cash games and sit & gos. The series production began in 2013 and was first aired in 2014. The show is web streamed and televised. PNIA was developed by Todd Anderson, president of Rush Street Productions and co-founder of the ''Heartland Poker Tour''. The show hosts various cash games at local casinos across the United States and is sponsored by 888poker. During the filming of the season one Shaun Deeb slow rolled Mike Matusow with quad 5s resulting in Matusow having an outburst. Since the incident, slow rolling has become a tradition on the show. Professional poker players such as Danielle Andersen, Maria Ho, Alec Torelli, Layne Flack, Phil Laak, Tom Schneider and others have appeared on the show. In 2017, the show presented King of the Hill, a series of $50,000 buy in heads up sit & gos with players such as Daniel Cates, Phil Hellmuth, Doug Polk, Olivier Busquet, Dan Colman Daniel Alan Colman ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Stapleton (poker)
Joe Stapleton is an American poker commentator. He has been an active commentator since 2009, and currently works for PokerStars. Stapleton did numerous broadcasts for the European Poker Tour. In 2011, Joe Stapleton was living in Los Angeles but working in Europe, flying to London twice a month, before living in England for three-and-a-half years. He then moved back to New York for one year, and he has been travelling back to Los Angeles since 2016. Commentator Joe Stapleton works for PokerStars, commentating both live and online events—especially during COVID-19, including events such as SCOOP—with the likes of Maria Ho and Joe Ingram. Comedy In a May 2021 interview, Joe Stapleton mentioned the fact that he had a voice problem during the summer of 2020, preventing him for doing any comedy bits. He had to undergo surgery to fix this in February 2021. Awards Along with fellow poker commentator James Hartigan James Edward Hartigan (born in Carshalton, South Londo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danielle Andersen
Danielle Andersen (born May 21, 1984) is an American professional poker player previously sponsored by Ultimate Poker. Andersen's competitive nature led her to pick up the game after watching her future husband, and friends, play in college in 2003. Finding herself winning on a regular basis, she made a $50 deposit and never looked back. Andersen's nickname is “dmoongirl.” Andersen was consistently found playing $25–$50 6-max cash games online – sometimes as high as $200–$400 prior to Black Friday. As one of the focal points in the online poker documentary, “Bet Raise Fold,” her life as a professional female poker player, wife, and mother was a highlighted character arcs in the documentary. The success of “Bet Raise Fold” catapulted her to becoming an even more recognizable face and name within the poker community. While Andersen is primarily a cash game player she has played in some WPT and WSOP events. Her live tournament earnings total $121,000 In compl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Shows About Poker
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries. The availability of various types of archival storag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Colman
Daniel Alan Colman (born July 11, 1990) is an American professional poker player, originally from Holden, Massachusetts. He is best known for winning the $1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop at the 2014 World Series of Poker. He beat Daniel Negreanu heads-up for a first place prize of $15,306,668, the fourth largest single payout in poker tournament history. Poker career Colman is primarily an online player under the names "mrGR33N13" and "riyyc225". In 2013 he became the first player in history to win $1,000,000 in hyper-turbo tournaments in a calendar year, accomplishing the feat in only 9 months. In April 2014 he won the €100,000 Super High Roller at the European Poker Tour The European Poker Tour (EPT) is a series of poker tournaments similar to those in the World Poker Tour (WPT), created by John Duthie, winner of the inaugural Poker Million tournament. It began in 2004 as part of the worldwide explosion in Tex ... Grand Final in Monte Carlo, earning €1,539,300 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier Busquet
Olivier Busquet (born August 22, 1981) is an American professional poker player. Early life Busquet was born on August 22, 1981, in New York City. He attended The Allen-Stevenson School, and Trinity High School, where he competed in chess and played violin in the orchestra. Busquet then attended Cornell University and graduated with a degree in philosophy. Afterwards, he worked on Wall Street for some time."Olivier Busquet" worldpokertour.com. Retrieved December 18, 2012. Poker career Busquet, who competes in both online and live tournaments, is known as an aggressive player. At the beginning of his career, he lost his bankroll a few times. He found success in heads up sit and go games and earned $2 million in sit and go games before any other player had even earned $1 million. In the 2008 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Hellmuth
Phillip Jerome Hellmuth Jr. (born July 16, 1964) is an American professional poker player who has won a record sixteen World Series of Poker bracelets. He is the winner of the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the Main Event of the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE), and he is a 2007 inductee of the WSOP's Poker Hall of Fame. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest tournament players of all time. Personal life Hellmuth was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and attended Madison West High School. He had trouble with grades and friends during school and said at the time he was the "ugly duckling" of his family. He then moved on to the University of Wisconsin–Madison for three years, where he dropped out to become a full-time poker player. Since 1992, he has lived in Palo Alto, California, with his wife, Katherine Sanborn, who is a psychiatrist at Stanford University, and their two sons, Phillip III and Nicholas. Poker career He is ranked 19th on the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Cates
Daniel Cates (born November 14, 1989) also known as jungleman12 or w00ki3z. is a professional poker player from the United States, once considered to be one of the best heads-up No Limit Texas Hold 'em players in the world. As of 2014, his online cash game earnings at Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars are over . In 2010, he won over $5 million making him the biggest winner for the year. Personal life Cates was born and raised in Bowie, Maryland, and began playing poker at the age of 17. He has said that at first he was a big loser and even took a job at McDonald's in order to refuel his bankroll. He describes his childhood as "weird, a bit aloof and mostly spent alone". He spent much of his time playing ''Command and Conquer'' and had an uncontrollable obsession with video games. He studied Economics at the University of Maryland before dropping out of college to make poker a full-time career. Poker Cates began playing online poker under the screen name "jungleman12" at the $0. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Schneider
Tom Schneider (born December 24, 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a professional poker player from Phoenix, Arizona. Schneider is a certified public accountant and former president of a public golf company and chief financial officer for three Arizona companies before beginning his poker career in 2002. As of 2017, he is Chief Financial Officer of Loudmouth Gol He wears their sport coats on ''Poker Night in America'' TV shows. He was also the Controller for Ping Golf. He is the author of the book ''Oops! I Won Too Much Money: Winning Wisdom from the Boardroom to the Poker Table'' which provides lessons for both poker and business. Tom was the co-host of the popular poker podcastBeyond The Table along with Karridy Askenasy and Dan Michalski, creator and head blogger aPokerati where Tom was a contributing columnist. He is the father of 2 children and is married to Kathy who has 3 children from a previous marriage. Schneider is a singer-songwriter of country songs. At the 2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Laak
Philip Courtney Laak (born September 8, 1972) is an Irish–American professional poker player and a poker commentator, now residing in Los Angeles, California. Laak holds a World Poker Tour (WPT) title, a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet, and has appeared on numerous nationally aired television shows. Early life Laak was born in Dublin, Ireland, raised on the East Coast of the United States, and now lives in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. His family moved to Wellesley, Massachusetts, when he was four years old. He graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a degree in mechanical engineering and worked in varying jobs prior to getting into open poker games in California. He is a former roommate of fellow professional poker player Antonio Esfandiari. Prior to moving to the west, Laak lived for several years in New York City where he honed his skills as a backgammon player before turning his focus to poker. Poker career Laak learned to play poker as a child. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Layne Flack
Layne Flack (May 18, 1969 – July 19, 2021) was an American professional poker player from Rapid City, South Dakota, residing in Montana and Nevada. Poker career Flack started playing cards with his grandparents, but became engrossed in the game while working at a casino. He would regularly go to another casino after work to play poker. Despite becoming the Night Manager in his job, he quit as he was spending too much time on poker to continue working full-time as well. He met up with Johnny Chan who helped him improve his game and, following a big loss, encouraged Flack to ensure he had a lot of rest before a tournament. Ted Forrest then took him under his wing, eventually playing in the biggest games in the world. Flack had lifetime live tournament play winnings of over $5,000,000. His 43 cashes at the WSOP accounted for $2,740,892 of his live tournament winnings. World Series of Poker Flack won six bracelets at the WSOP. He got the nickname "Back to Back Flack" after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alec Torelli
Alec Michael Torelli (born March 24, 1987) also known by his moniker Traheho, is a professional poker player from Orange County, California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ... who specializes in live high stakes cash games. Torelli was formerly sponsored by Doyles Room. Poker career Torelli began playing poker in 2004 after a friend invited him to a home game of poker where he won $12. His first live poker event was in the Bahamas in January 2006. After turning 21, Torelli moved to Las Vegas. During his first World Series of Poker (WSOP), he finished 2nd in the $10,000 Heads Up event. Later that fall, he won back-to-back events at the Bellagio. The next summer, he placed 6th in the commemorative $40,000, 40-year anniversary WSOP event, and 4th in the World Poker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Ho
Maria Ho (born March 6, 1983 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese-American poker player and television host/commentator. One of the top ranked female poker players in the world, and a Women in Poker Hall of Fame inductee, she has over $5,000,000 in live tournament winnings. Ho's live tournament poker record includes 80 WSOP cashes, 8 World Series of Poker final tables (including WSOPC and WSOPE final tables), 14 World Poker Tour cashes, 4 WPT final tables and 1 WPT title), and numerous additional final tables on the professional poker circuit. Outside of poker, she has been seen on many primetime television shows; making it to "Hollywood Week" on season 3 of ''American Idol'', competing on the fifteenth season of ''The Amazing Race'' and appearing as a celebrity guest on ''Deal or No Deal'' in January 2019. Early life Fluent in Mandarin and born into a traditional Taiwanese family, Maria grew up just outside Los Angeles in Arcadia, California, after her family moved from Taiw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
