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Edward Raymond Miller (born August 10, 1979) is an American professional
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player and an author of books about poker. He wrote ''Small Stakes Hold 'em: Winning Big With Expert Play'' with
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and Mason Malmuth in 2004. In 2005, he completed ''Getting Started in Hold 'em'', a beginner's book. In 2006, he co-wrote ''No Limit Hold 'Em: Theory and Practice'' with
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. Miller is also co-author of the book ''Professional No Limit Hold 'em'' with Matt Flynn and Sunny Mehta published in 2007 and wrote ''Small Stakes No-Limit Hold’em'' co-authored with Sunny Mehta and Matt Flynn. Miller came out with ''How to Read Hands At No-Limit Hold'em'' in 2011, ''Playing the Player'' in 2012, and ''Poker's 1%'' in 2014. His newest book, ''The Course'', was released late April 2015. Miller is part owner and produces educational poker videos for Red Chip Poker and StoxPoker, both subscription fee based poker coaching sites. He also does personal poker coaching. After becoming a pesco-vegetarian in 2003 and lacto-ovo vegetarian in 2005, Ed Miller and his wife became
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in 2007. He attributes health concerns as his primary reasons for changing his diet.


Biography

After prepping at
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's prestigious Isidore Newman School where Miller was a standout performer on the school's renowned forensics team and in the same graduating class as noted author Christopher Rice and ''
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'' finalist Judd Harris. He was a member of the U.S. Physics Team. Ed Miller received degrees in both Physics and Electrical Engineering from the
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in 2000. Initially, Miller worked as a
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for
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. After many months of
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playing in the
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area, Ed moved to
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in 2002 where he met Dr. Alan Schoonmaker, the author of ''The Psychology of Poker'' (). Schoonmaker introduced Ed to
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and Mason Malmuth of Two Plus Two Publishing, LLC. Ed married Elaine Vigneault in 2005. In 2006, Miller was made over by the Fab Five of the
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, '' Queer Eye.'' The Queer Eye summary:
"You can't be in Vegas without running into a card shark and Ed is that card shark. But you wouldn't know it by looking at him. The wild hair, the overgrown beard, and the overall unkempt look keeps Ed from looking like the high roller that he is. He has a nerdy look but nerdy can be cool. Unfortunately, Ed hasn't gotten the 'cool' part. Even more unfortunate, Ed's parents lost their home during the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. This is a great time for our boys to 'make better' Ed and throw a poker tournament benefiting the relief efforts in New Orleans."
After living in Manhattan for two years, Miller now lives and works in Las Vegas.


Books written by Ed Miller

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Books edited by Ed Miller

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DVDs released by Ed Miller


Expert Hold'Em series


References

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