Lee Jones is an online poker executive and the author of ''Winning Low-Limit Hold 'em''.
Education
Jones earned his
B.S. in
Computer Science from
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
in
North Carolina in 1978, and his
M.S.
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in
Electrical Engineering
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from the
University of Maryland in 1983.
In 2019, Lee partnered with Tommy Angelo to create the video series called PokerSimple.
He also contributes a monthly column to
Bluff Magazine.
Career
From October 2003 to April 2007, Jones worked as the cardroom manager of the
PokerStars online poker cardroom. As the poker room manager, Jones decided which
poker tournaments
A poker tournament is a tournament where players compete by playing poker. It can feature as few as two players playing on a single table (called a " heads-up" tournament), and as many as tens of thousands of players playing on thousands of tabl ...
and games to offer the players. In April 2007, Jones left PokerStars and began work with the
European Poker Tour. Jones said that he was making the change "to expand
ishorizons and stretch some new muscles." Jones organized, hosted, and provided television
commentary for EPT events, while also still serving as a consultant for PokerStars.
In April 2008 Jones announced he was leaving EPT to become
COO
COO or coo may refer to:
Business
* Certificate of origin, used in international trade
* Chief operating officer or chief operations officer, high-ranking corporate official
* Concept of operations, used in Systems Engineering Management Process
...
of
CardRunners, a poker instructional website. He left Cardrunners in 2009.
In May 2009 Jones signed on with the
Cake Poker Network
The Cake Network was a Curaçao based online poker network owned and operated by parent company Cake Gaming NV.
Cake Network was founded in 2004 and launched its first network skin, Cake Poker, in June 2006. Other network partners followed, inclu ...
's flagship member Cake Poker as the Card Room Manager. He was also acting as a player advocate at Cake Poker. He resigned from Cake Poker in December 2010 citing "strategic decisions with which I'm not comfortable"
In 2012, Jones returned to work with PokerStars when they acquired FullTiltPoker.
In 2014, Jones earned 14th place in the Isle of Man stop of
UKIPT
The UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) started in December 2009, is a major regional poker tour in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The UKIPT is sponsored by PokerStars.com, like its counterparts, the European Poker Tour (2004), Asia Pacific Poker ...
(United Kingdom and Ireland Poker Tour)
Heads-up poker system
In 2006 Jones and a former math lecturer named James Kittock (now at Google) developed a system for playing heads-up that they called the Sit and Go Endgame System (SAGE). This drew a mention in the New York Times poker column.
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Notes
External links
Official siteLee Jones Interview (audio + transcript)
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American poker players
American gambling writers
American male non-fiction writers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Duke University alumni
American chief operating officers