Good evening dearest friends of Poker !

I’m here to present you the next five Players, starting with number 75 and ending with number 71. They are very different again this time with an old skool rock, an online gun and some agressive, trashtalking players. While I’m a little bit tilting again online because of some bad luck during cash games, I’ll present them quick in order to play my A-game again on the multi-table tournaments of PokerStars, which are still the best suited for my play. Let’s meet them:

(75)  =>   JEAN – ROBERT   BELLANDE

> Jean-Robert F. Bellande

> born 17/09/1970 in Long Island, New York (USA).

> lives now in Las Vegas, Nevada.

> Nickname :   ‘Action Bob’ or ‘ Bobby’

> earned several cashes in WSOP and WPT.

> won around $ 1 million in live tournament play( until 2009).

Jean-Robert owns a nightclub, is a promoter and has a background Bachelor of Arts in Marketing. He’s very famous for his fast play and his trashtalking at the table with which he enjoys putting players on tilt. He showed his manners on several occasions in Poker After Dark.

(74)  =>   JEFF   MADSEN

> born 07/06/1985 in Santa Monica, California (USA).

> lives now in Las Vegas, Nevada.

> won 2 Bracelets (2006 – NL Hold’em / 2006 – NL Hold’em 6 handed)

> was the 2006 WSOP Player of the Year.

> plays at Full Tilt Poker as a sponsored Pro.

> has live tournament winnings of over $ 2.250.000 ( until 2009).

Jeff is the third-youngest winner of a WSOP event after Annette Obrestad and Steve Billirakis when he won his first bracelet at the age of 21. He studied Film Theory at the university of California and he’s a big fan of rap music, which he shows from time to time in his selfmade videoclips.

(73)  =>   BILLY   BAXTER

> William E. Baxter Jr.

> born 1940 in Augusta, Georgia (USA).

> won 7 Bracelets, all in lowball games ( 2-7 draw in ‘75,’78,’82,’87,’93/ A-5 draw in ‘82/ Razz in 2002)

> became a member of the Poker Hall of Fame in 2006.

> has live tournament earnings of over $ 2.100.000 ( until 2009).

He started to gamble when he was very young, at the age of 14. Billy was a close friend of Stu Ungar and staked him for many years. Besides his lowball and gamble skills, he is also very well-known for his lawsuit against the American inland revenue where he had proved that playing Poker was his living and work so that the poker professionals did need to pay less income taxes than before his lawsuit.

(72)  =>   ANNETTE   OBRESTAD

> born 18/09/1988 in Sandnes (NOR).

> still lives there.

> Nickname :   ‘Annette_15‘

> won 1 Bracelet (2007- NL Hold’em in Europe).

> plays at Betfair as a member of the Poker Pro Team.

> won around $ 2.750.000 in live tournament play (until 2009) with which she ranked 3th on the all time earnings list of female poker players.

Annette is a very big online Poker phenomenon and probably one the best online female players nowadays. She started to play online poker at the age of 15, hence her screen name. She made her starting bankroll by playing freerolls on different sites, but have never deposit any money on an online poker site. Annette won already several big online multi-table tournaments with which she proved her huge skills. She also claims that she won an online 180 players-4$ Sit&Go without looking at her cards, only when faced an all-in, by which she proved the importance of positioning and player image. She is also the youngest person ever to win a Bracelet on the last day of her 18th year during the WSOP event in Europe. She can not play in the big WSOP yet because of the minimum age limit of 21 in the state of Nevada.

(71)  =>   VICTOR   RAMDIN

> Annand Mahendra ‘Victor’ Ramdin

> born 28/05/1968 in Georgetown (GUYANA).

> lives now in The Bronx, New York.

> Nickname :   Computer Man

> won 1 WPT title (2006 – Foxwoods Poker Classic) and has several WSOP cashes.

> plays at PokerStars as a member of  TeamPokerStars.

> has live tournament winnings of over $ 2.500.000 (until 2009).

Victor began to play poker in 2002 when he saw the game in a bar and immediately fell in love with it. He was being mentored at the beginning by the great Phil Ivey. He always plays with no fear and can be very agressive, even in the big cash games like High Stakes Poker where he appeared. He donates a fourth of his earnings to charity. Victor also owns several stores and likes to invest in real estate.

That was it for now boys and girls, we’ll dive into the top-70 next time and I’ll hope to see you again than, but beware of the River !

J.M.

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