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, the top professionals are known by their screen-names first and their real names second, if at all. Eric Haber has earned a level of success in live events that his real name is fairly well known, but he is still known as "sheets" to millions of poker players who first encountered him on the Internet. Haber is the lead instructor, along with Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy, at PokerXFactor.com, an online poker training center that features videos of professional players as they play poker online. Josephy and Haber backed

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in his $10,000 buy-in run that earned him $8,546,435, half of which went to his backers. On March 13, 2008, Haber won the $5,150 No Limit Hold'em

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circuit Championship Event, winning $431,136. As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceeded $890,000, and his online tournament winnings exceed $2,000,000.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Haber, Eric 1967 births Living people American poker players World Series of Poker Circuit event winners People from Syosset, New York