Young Gunsof Poker

2009

Jennifer Harman

Jennifer Harman-Traniello was

born in Reno, Nevada where she

started playing poker at eight

years of age. She’s a graduate of

the University of Nevada, Reno.

She won her first World Series of

Poker bracelet in 2000. Winning

her second WSOP bracelet in

2002 at the $5K Limit Hold ‘em

event makes her the only woman

to hold two bracelets in WSOP

open events.

Harman took a year away from

poker in 2004 to have her second

kidney transplant.

In 2007 she finished as runner up

in the inaugural World Series of

Poker Europe losing in the HORSE

event to Thomas Bihl.

Jennifer Harman is a member of

“Team Full Tilt” at Full Tilt Poker.

Her total live tournament winnings

as of 2008 exceed $2,200,000.

January

2009

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FEBruary

2009Marco Traniello

Prior to Marco working as a world-

renowned master hairdresser, he

was the captain of an oil ship and

a real estate agent.

He made his first appearance at

the World Series of Poker (WSOP)

in 2005. During this event, he also

tied for the most money finishes

with Michael Mizrachi and Tony

Cousineau.

He finished 5th at the $10,000 Pot

Limit Omaha event at the 2007

WSOP, winning $156,435 which is

his biggest win to date.

Traniello writes for Card Player

Magazine and is a member of

Marcel Luske’s Circle of Outlaws.

As of 2008, his total live tourna-

ment winnings exceed $420,000.

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MarCH

2009Phil Ivey

Phil Ivey was born in California

and moved to New Jersey as an

infant. He has won five World Se-

ries of Poker bracelets and has a

World Poker Tour Championship

title, making the final table there

a record eight times.

One of his nicknames is “No Home

Jerome” and it comes from the

ID card he obtained in order to

practice in Atlantic City as a

teenager. He is also known as the

‘Tiger Woods of Poker’.

His tournament accomplish-

ments include winning three

bracelets at the 2002 World Se-

ries of Poker, tying Phil Hellmuth Jr

and Ted Forrest for the most wins

in a single year.

Ivey is part of the design team for

Full Tilt Poker.

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aPrIL

2009Daniel Negreanu

Daniel Negreanu had dreams of

a career in acting or comedy. At

the age of 15, he learned how to

play poker. As a 16 year-old he

spent his time in pool halls, hus-

tling, sports betting and playing

cards.

Daniel dropped out of high school

several credits shy of graduating

and began life as a rounder play-

ing at the local charity casinos

and looking for illegal games.

In December 2005, he started

his own online poker cardroom

“skin” site on his official site, Full

Contact Poker. This site also in-

cludes his blog and a variety of

poker forums.

He has written over 100 articles

for CardPlayer Magazine and

contributed to Doyle Brunson’s

revised book, Super System II.

Negreanu won his fourth WSOP

bracelet in 2008, in the $2000 buy-

in limit hold’em event.

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May

2009Carlos Mortensen

Juan Carlos Mortensen, who was

born in Ambato, Ecuador moved

to Spain as a teen with his fam-

ily where poker was illegal. This is

where he learned to play poker.

He moved from Spain to the

United States in the late 1990s in

order to play poker. Surprisingly

enough, he only spoke Spanish.

He is the only hispanic Main Event

winner of the World Series of Pok-

er winning $1,500,000. He also

won the World Poker Tour (WPT)

Doyle Brunson North American

Poker Championship in 2004 for

$1,000,000. Carlos won the Sea-

son Five World Poker Tour cham-

pionship event, and its $3,970,415

first prize and his second WPT title.

This made him the first player to

ever win the World Championship

events at both the World Series of

Poker and the World Poker Tour.

As of 2008, his total live tournament

winnings exceed $8,500,000.

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2009Dario Minieri

Dario is an Italian professional

poker player from Rome, Italy. He

won a bracelet at the 2008 World

Series of Poker at the age of 23. He

is a highly productive online play-

er with PokerStars, and he is no

stranger to live tournaments hav-

ing finished 22nd in the EPT Grand

Final in Monte Carlo $16,800, and

543rd in the WSOP for $22,266.

He plays so much online that he

was able to get enough Frequent

Player Points on PokerStars to be-

come the first player to buy a car

with them. He bought a Porsche

Cayman.

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JuLy

2009Gus Hansen

Gustav Hansen was born just

outside Copenhagen, Denmark.

He is a professional danish poker

player living in Monaco. His poker

career includes winning a record

three World Poker Tour open ti-

tles, the 2007 Aussie Millions main

event and was the season one

winner of the Poker Superstars In-

vitational Tournament.

Prior to taking a turn as a poker

player, Hansen was a world class

backgammon player and also a

youth tennis champion.

After moving to New York City

in 2000 to pursue professional

backgammon, he felt the field in

backgammon was too small to

continue an interest so he is now

a professional poker player.

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auGuST

2009Nick Schulman

Nick Schulman is from Manhat-

tan, New York.

He started playing poker at the

young age of 18 and he turned

professional at just 19 years old.

When he was 21 he won the

fourth season World Poker Tour

(WPT) World Poker Finals poker

tournament. This win snagged

him $2,167,500 which is a record

for a regular season event on the

WPT. This also made Schulman the

youngest winner of a WPT event.

Schulman finished 4th in the

World Series of Poker circuit event

in Atlantic City, winning a further

$74,495 only a few weeks later.

In April 2006, Schulman eliminat-

ed Freddy Deeb to win the WPT

Battle of Champions IV event.

As of 2008, his total career live

tournament winnings exceed

$3,300,000.

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SEPTEMBEr

2009Noah Boeken

Like so many of the young tour-

nament poker pros, Noah first

meddled with strategy in the

card game Magic: The Gathering

(MTG). He was one of the world’s

best players of MTG but when he

figured out he could make a lot

more money playing poker he

switched card games.

His online play began in 2001 and

he was able to have immediate

success in weekly tournaments.

He soon met Marcel Luske who is

a popular poker player and also

the individual who is Boeken’s

mentor to this day. Since then,

Noah has not looked back.

He has spent several years acquir-

ing a large bankroll from online

tournaments and cash games.

He’s also played in live tourna-

ments and done very well with

them.

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OCTOBEr

2009Tom Dwan

Tom Dwan’s online name is

“durrrr” and he is known as one

of the best online poker play-

ers. He’s a 21 year-old college

dropout from New Jersey and he

has become one of the biggest

cash game players in a very short

amount of time.

In an interview with Arthur Crow-

son when Dwan was playing at

Foxwoods in 2007, Dwan said,

“My iPod died like two hours ago

and I want to shoot someone.

Without an iPod I play so bad.

It helps so much. I mean Day 1 I

had a fun table and the people

were nice but if you’re at a table

where people are bitter because

they don’t have chips and they

get angry when you re-raise them

it gets really, really annoying with-

out an iPod. Music really helps.

He is rumoured to have made

over $2,000,000 playing high

stakes poker online. As of 2008,

his total live tournament winnings

exceed $950,000.

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nOVEMBEr

2009Erick Lindgren

During the World Poker Tour’s sec-

ond season, he captured the first

Player of the Year honor with his

two victories. He was raised in the

remote town of Burney, CA in the

Sierra Nevada range near Mt.

Shasta.

When attending junior college to

play basketball, he became side-

tracked after playing recreation-

ally at an Indian casino.

This led to a job as a blackjack

dealer where he was able to

pick up some poker skills. By the

age of 21 he was playing poker

full-time and working at a casi-

no in San Pablo, California as a

“propositional player” — this type

of player is hired to keep games

lively.

Lindgren is the author of the

book, World Poker Tour: Making

the Final Table. His book covers

strategy for playing in poker tour-

naments.

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DECEMBEr

2009Jeff Madsen

Madsen was raised in Los Ange-

les and went to college at the

University of California, Santa Bar-

bara to study film theory.

Madsen became the young-

est ever World Series of Poker

bracelet winner in 2006. He won

his first bracelet only one month

and nine days after his 21st birth-

day and he was about six weeks

younger than the previous record

holder.

Less than a week later, he broke

another record and became

the youngest two-time bracelet

winner.

His record was broken in 2007 for

youngest ever winner, but he still

holds the 2-bracelet record.

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Young Guns

of Poker

2009

JANUARYJennifer Harman

FEBRUARYMarco Traniello

MARCHPhil Ivey

APRILDaniel Negreanu

MAYCarlos Mortensen

JUNEDario Minieri

JULYGus Hansen

AUGUSTNick Schulman

SEPTEMBERNoah Boeken

OCTOBERTom Dwan

NOVEMBERErick Lindgren

DECEMBERJeff Madsen

Presenting The Young

Guns of Poker:

Having evolved over

ten centuries, the

actual beginnings of

poker has always been

a hot debate.

While the real

history of poker is truly

a mystery, there is no

debate about the fact

that the young guns

of poker today make

playing the game look

very easy.

Keeping their cool,

confidence and most

of all, their concen-

tration while playing,

makes them stand out

as not only today’s

poker players, but

these young guns are

very much the future

of poker.

They are the history of

poker in the making.

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