Shannon Elizabeth considers poker to be a second career, and is widely regarded as one of the top celebrity poker players. Several times a month she travels to Las Vegas to play in high stakes poker games and poker tournaments. With four WSOP cashes and a $55,000 win at a Caesars Palace tournament in Las Vegas, Shannon Elizabeth has had some success.
Jamie Gold started playing in poker tournaments in 2005. His first big win at a live tournament was at the Bicycle Casino playing No Limit Texas Hold’Em where he won $54,000. Knowing that he had what it took to be a top earner, he played in tournaments for the next year and finished in the money several more times.
Mike Matusow, by his own admission, can be an erratic player. When he's on his game, he's amongst the best in the world, but he's prone to concentration lapses, he can make amazing plays all day, and then suddenly blow off all his chips like a rank amateur.
Phil Ivey is the most popular poker player today, widely considered to be the best poker player ever to play the game. The only poker accomplishment Phil Ivey is missing is winning the elusive main event bracelet at the World Series Of Poker. In July 2009, Phil Ivey made the final table of that main event outlasting thousands of other poker players.
Having come of age in the pool halls of Toronto, poker superstar Daniel Negreanu originally had aspirations of being a professional snooker player. In this kind of environment, he was never too far away from a card game and eventually become intrigued enough to play himself. He moved to Las Vegas soon after and hasn’t looked back since.
Despite being known as one of the nicest players in poker, John Juanda shows no mercy when he's at the table. His $6 million career earnings and his current standing atop the 'Power Rankings' of leading U.S. poker magazine, Bluff, prove that John Juanda - as he is affectionately known - is no Mr. Nice Guy come gameday.
