Hi Pokerfriends !

I’m very glad to present you my first pokerlist, namely the Most Famous Poker Players (MFPP) top-100 !!! It’s finally finished so from now on you can follow it pending the next posts in which I’ll always give you five names, starting with number 100.  I’ve selected him on my own so it’s pretty subjective but you can always make a comment if you don’t agree. So here are the first five, numbers 100 to 96, I hope you recognize them .

(100) =>  BOB STUPAK

> born 06/04/1942 in Pittsburgh (USA)

> married twice, has three children, lives in Las Vegas

> nickname : The Polish Maverick

> won 1 bracelet (1989 the 2-7 lowball)

> has over 865.000$ live tournament winnings( 2008)

Robert E. “Bob” Stupak is considered as an entrepeneur and a former casino owner. He’s mostly recognized by his typical manner of talking and handling, namely very slow and weird due to a motorcrash accident in 1995, where he went in a coma and broke every bone in his face. He even became a politician in 2006 as a Democrat. But he’s probably become the most famous when he appeared in episode eight and nine of the first season of High Stakes Poker. He sat down on a table among others like Daniel Negreanu , Johnny Chan, Sam Farha and Todd Brunson. He didn’t play a single hand and while the others were making comments about his extremely tight play, he picked up AA, raised and got called by Daniel’s pocket sevens. After the flop came Q-10-8, he immediatly went all-in with a ridiculous oversized bet and got the pot. Finally that was also his only hand that he played.

(99) => LIZ  LIEU

> born 02/09/1974 in Vietnam.

> lives now in Los Angeles, California.

> nickname : Poker Diva

> has an exclusive partnership with Chilipoker

> has earned almost 700.000$ in live tournament play.

Liz have been introduced and encouraged to the no limit hold’em tournaments by John Phan because she only played limit cash games first and she became very successful with it. She also appeared on the PartyPoker.com Premier League II along others like Phil Hellmuth, Tony G and The Devilfish.

(98) =>  J.C.  TRAN

> Justin Cuong Van Tran

> born 20/01/1977  in Vietnam

> based in Sacramento, California

> won 2 bracelets (2008 NL hold’em – 2009 PLO) and 1 WPT title (2007)

> was WPT Player of the Year in their fifth season (2007)

> plays at PokerStars where he won the Main Event of the World Championship of Online Poker(WCOOP) in 2006

> has almost eight million $ of live tournament winnings ( 2009).

You can recognize him most of the time by his sporting outfits and hats, especially of the Yankees. He  has a university degree in Business Management. J.C. also won the PartyPoker.com Premier League III at the end of last year when he beat Tony G in heads-up play.

(97) => JUHA  HELPPI

> born 04/03/1977 in Helsinki ( FIN) and still lives there.

> nickname : Peasant

> won 1 WPT title ( 2002 Aruba)

> won in 2007 the PartyPoker.com Premier League II.

> has live tournament winnings over 2.400.00$ (2009)

Juha began his poker career as a poker dealer. He also won the first under water tournament organised by InterPoker in 2005 where he beat Phil Laak and Kenna James to win the Caribbean Poker Classic Extreme Poker bracelet. Juha is also known as a very good paintball player and he was even the captain of the national squad of Finland.

(96) => DAVID  SKLANSKY

> born in 1947 in Teaneck, New Jersey (USA) and he now lives in Henderson, Nevada.

> nickname : The Mathematician

> won 3 bracelets (1982 Draw High- 1982 Mixed doubles- 1983 Limit Omaha)

> is a top author on gambling theory and poker with more than 13 books, all published by Two Plus Two Publishing.

With several degrees on his back, David is widely considered as one of the founders of the Theoretical Poker school where the calculations and theory of probability are very important. Players like Chris Ferguson, Andy Bloch and Brandon Adams are very close and familiar with that manner of playing poker. David brought in 1976 the first book out connected with poker, namely Hold’em Poker.

So people, we took off with those five interesting players, see you next time for the next five, the numbers 95-91. It won’t be too long to find out but for the one who are too curious,  I give this tip: next time you’ll see the first WSOP Main Event winner aka one of the former World Champions of Poker! You can think and guess already who it’s going to be

Cheers,

J.M.