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World Poker Tour Bracelet
The World Poker Tour (WPT) is an internationally televised gaming and entertainment brand. Since 2002, the World Poker Tour has operated a series of international poker tournaments and associated television series broadcasting playdown and the final table of each tournament. The most prominent of World Poker Tour events belong to the WPT Main Tour. The WPT Main Tour focuses on the buy-in range of $3,500–$25,000, and winners of official WPT Main Tour events are awarded a membership to the WPT Champions Club. The WPT Champions Cup is the trophy awarded to all winners of WPT Main Tour events, and champions have their names engraved on the Cup. History The World Poker Tour was started in 2002 in the United States by attorney/television producer Steven Lipscomb, who served as CEO of WPT Enterprises, Inc. (WPTE). Winners on the World Poker Tour are awarded a bracelet, inspired by a similar bracelet by the World Series of Poker (WSOP). While the champions of the first six season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darren Elias
Darren Elias (born November 18, 1986) is an American professional poker player. He holds the record for most World Poker Tour titles, with four. Early life and online poker Elias was born in Boston and now lives in Medford, New Jersey Medford is a township in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 24,497, an increase of 1,464 (+6.4%) from the 2010 census count of 23,033, which in turn reflected .... He was an ocean lifeguard in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina before he became a professional poker player. Elias attended the University of Redlands in Redlands, California with the chosen studies of mathematics and physics - later switching to creative writing - where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2008. In addition to his successes in live poker, he has also done well in online poker, winning over $8 million online. He played under the username "darrenelias" on Pokerstars and Full T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherman Antitrust Act
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 (, ) is a United States antitrust law which prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce and consequently prohibits unfair monopolies. It was passed by Congress and is named for Senator John Sherman, its principal author. The Sherman Act broadly prohibits 1) anticompetitive agreements and 2) unilateral conduct that monopolizes or attempts to monopolize the relevant market. The Act authorizes the Department of Justice to bring suits to enjoin (i.e. prohibit) conduct violating the Act, and additionally authorizes private parties injured by conduct violating the Act to bring suits for treble damages (i.e. three times as much money in damages as the violation cost them). Over time, the federal courts have developed a body of law under the Sherman Act making certain types of anticompetitive conduct per se illegal, and subjecting other types of conduct to case-by-case analysis regarding whether the conduct unreasonab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shana Hiatt
Shana Hiatt (born December 17, 1975) is an American model and presenter who has appeared in several magazines. Personal life A former Army brat raised primarily in Tabernacle Township, New Jersey, Hiatt is best known for hosting the first three seasons of ''World Poker Tour'' on The Travel Channel. She was married to pornographic actor Tommy Gunn for three years in the 1990s. Poker While Hiatt was a non-player prior to her job with the ''World Poker Tour'', she is now an avid online poker player who occasionally plays in casinos. She was the host of ''Poker After Dark'' and the ''National Heads-Up Poker Championship'', both on NBC. Hiatt left the shows in 2008 due to pregnancy. She was replaced by Marianela Pereyra in ''Poker After Dark'' and by Leeann Tweeden in the ''National Heads-Up Poker Championship''. After leaving the ''World Poker Tour'' in 2005, Hiatt sued the producers in order to get a restraining order to prevent them from keeping her from working on a riva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Gilmartin
Lynn Gilmartin (born 3 November 1984) is an Australian actress and TV host, best known as the anchor of the ''World Poker Tour'' on Fox Sports Networks (US). In 2020, she was inducted into The Australian Poker Hall of Fame. Personal life Gilmartin is married to professional poker player and World Poker Tour Mexico commentator Angel Guillén. Career Gilmartin began following the poker circuit in 2009 as a reporter for PokerNews and PokerStars.tv, regularly presenting from the ''World Series of Poker'', ''European Poker Tour'', '' Latin American Poker Tour'' and ''Asia Pacific Poker Tour''. She first hit Australian and UK television screens in 2012 as the host of ''Crown's Aussie Millions Poker Championship'' and continued into 2013 as sideline reporter for ESPN Australia's coverage of the '' World Series of Poker Asia Pacific'', and One HD and ESPN Australia's coverage of ''Crown's Aussie Millions Poker Championship''. Later in 2013, Gilmartin moved to Los Angeles to ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Sexton
Michael Richard Sexton (September 22, 1947September 6, 2020) was an American professional poker player and commentator. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2009. Early years Sexton was a gymnast and attended Ohio State University, where he earned a degree in public recreation after changing majors from business. He joked that he majored in poker because he played very frequently in college. He also regularly played contract bridge and taught classes on it in North Carolina. Sexton joined the U.S. Army as a paratrooper assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division in 1970. The division had just returned from Vietnam and Sexton never saw combat. While he was in the army, he taught ballroom dancing, and one of his clients convinced him to try being a salesman, which he continued to do after his two-year enlistment was up. After a while, he realized that he could make more money playing poker than being a salesman, so he took up poker in 1977. In 1985 he moved to Nevada to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vince Van Patten
Vincent Van Patten (born October 17, 1957) is an American actor, former professional tennis player, and the commentator for the World Poker Tour. Early and personal life Van Patten was born in Bellerose, New York, as the youngest son of actor Dick Van Patten and his wife, Patricia Helon "Pat" Van Patten (née Poole), a former June Taylor dancer. He is of Dutch, English, and Italian descent. He was first urged into show business at age nine by his father's agent. He appeared in more than thirty commercials, including Colgate toothpaste, before his father was cast in the TV series, ''Arnie'', and moved his family from Long Island to Los Angeles. From his first marriage to Betsy Russell he has two sons: Richard and Vince. His second marriage, on April 15, 2003, was to ''The Young and the Restless'' actress Eileen Davidson; they have one child together, a son named Jesse Thomas Van Patten. Vince is related to several other well-known actors, actresses, and singers through blood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Dunst
George Tony Dunst (born October 17, 1984) is an American professional poker player and a three-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner. Poker career Dunst was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and studied theater at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He worked as a waiter before turning to poker and spent time living in Australia, China, and Malaysia before settling in Las Vegas, Nevada. He began playing online poker in 2003 after watching the 2002 WSOP on television. Playing under the name 'Bond18,' he has amassed more than $1.8 million in online tournament winnings. Dunst first played in the WSOP in 2006, finishing in 198th place in the Main Event. His first bracelet came in 2016, when he defeated a field of 2,452 players in a $1,000 No Limit Hold'em event and earned $339,000. He dedicated his bracelet to his wife Sharon. He won his second bracelet in July 2020 at the WSOP Online in a $777 No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed event. Dunst won his third bracelet at the 2024 WSO ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FanDuel Sports Network
FanDuel Sports Network (formerly Bally Sports) is a group of regional sports networks in the United States owned by Main Street Sports Group (formerly Diamond Sports Group). The networks carry regional broadcasts of sporting events from various Professional sports, professional, College sports in the United States, collegiate, and high school sports teams. Through its owned-and-operated networks and several other affiliates, its programming is available to all or part of at least 33 states. The networks were formerly known as Fox Sports Networks and operated by News Corporation for most of their existence. They were acquired by Diamond Sports from the Walt Disney Company in 2019, as Disney was required to divest them by the U.S. Department of Justice as a condition of their own Acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, acquisition of 21st Century Fox. Diamond Sports was initially established by Sinclair Broadcast Group, with additional equity funding from Allen Media Group. Aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Raymer
Gregory Paul Raymer (born June 25, 1964) nicknamed "Fossilman," is a professional poker player and author. He is best known for winning the 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event. Early life Raymer's family moved numerous times during his childhood, from his birthplace of Minot, North Dakota to Lansing, Michigan, where he lived until age 10. He then moved to Clearwater, Florida, attending Dunedin Middle School, and would move later once again, this time to St. Louis, Missouri. After Raymer graduated from Parkway South High School in St. Louis, he enrolled at the University of Missouri–Rolla, where he majored in chemistry and became a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a master's degree in biochemistry in 1989, and then again from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1992. He then practiced law as a patent attorney for more than a decade, spending the last six years of his legal career at the pharmaceutical company Pfize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Lederer
Howard Henry Lederer (born October 30, 1964) is an American professional poker player. He has won two World Series of Poker bracelets and holds two World Poker Tour titles. Lederer has also contributed to several books on poker strategy and has provided commentary for poker programming. He is known by poker fans and players as "The Professor" and is the older brother of professional poker player Annie Duke. Lederer is a founder and board member of Tiltware, the company that launched Full Tilt Poker in 2004. In 2011, the Full Tilt Poker website was shut down by the United States Department of Justice on charges of bank fraud and illegal gambling. In December 2012, Lederer settled a civil lawsuit with the Department of Justice relating to Full Tilt Poker. Early life and family Lederer was born in 1964 in Concord, New Hampshire and was introduced to card games at a young age by his family. As a child, Lederer's father also taught him to play chess. As a teenager, Lederer developed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Gordon (poker Player)
Philip Stewart Gordon (born July 6, 1970) is an American professional poker player, commentator and author. Personal life Gordon was born in El Paso, Texas. He spent his formative years in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Gordon began attending Georgia Tech at the age of 15 while still attending high school. At the end of the 11th grade and after being awarded the National Merit Scholarship, Gordon dropped out of high school and attended Georgia Tech full-time. Gordon graduated from Georgia Tech with a B.S. degree in computer science in 1991. After stints working at Santa Cruz Operation and Lockheed, Gordon joined start-up Netsys Technologies as their first hired employee. In 1996, Netsys was acquired by Cisco Systems, making him a millionaire, and in 1997 he retired from the high-tech industry to travel the world and to play poker. Gordon currently lives in Newport, Washington, with his wife, Barb, and their two boys, Xander and Zachary. Poker Live poker World Series of Poker P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Hachem
Joseph Hachem (; ; born 11 March 1966) is a Lebanese-Australian professional poker player known for being the first Australian to win the World Series of Poker main event, which earned him $7.5 million, then a record for all-time biggest tournament prize. The next year, Hachem won his first World Poker Tour title at the Bellagio Casino's Five Diamonds Poker Classic, earning him $2.2 million. He is one of only six poker players to win both a World Series of Poker main event and a World Poker Tour championship. Including his WSOP Main Event victory, Hachem has finished in the money in thirteen World Series events. As of January 2018, Hachem's tournament winnings exceed $12,200,000, making him the 35th-highest ranked player in live tournament career earnings. Early life Joseph Hachem was born in Lebanon on 11 March 1966. In 1972, at age six, Hachem and his family moved to Melbourne, Australia. He worked as a chiropractor for 13 years before giving up the career after developing a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
