Welcome Poker Lovers !

I’ve decided to quit Everest Poker for a while because the site did let me down. Okay, there were a lot of fish but they were quite lucky most of the time. The lay-out and tournament offer is quite disappointing and the cash games tables aren’t extensive. I hate to wait when I’ve some time left to play some hands. But I’m glad that I could manage to double my starting stack, so it still was a successful collaboration. I’m thinking about where I’m going to play poker now. You may always give me any advice about poker sites! But for now, I think that I’m going to explore FatBet Poker. They offer a big rakeback and 1000% First Deposit Bonus. So that should be perfect to play some cash game there in combination with the tournaments at PokerStars. I’ll inform you about my winnings but for now here are the next two legends !

(16)   =>   PHIL   LAAK

> Philip Laak

> born 08/09/1972, Dublin (IRE)

> resides now in Los Angeles, California (USA)

> dating fellow poker pro and actress Jennifer Tilly

> Nickname : ‘ The Unabomber ‘

> won 1 WPT-title (’04 Celebrity Invitational)

> won 2 Poker After Dark titles.

> won the PartyPoker.com World Open V Championship in 2009.

> has Live Tournament Earnings of almost $ 2,000,000 (until 2009)

Although born in Ireland, Phil was actually raised on the East Coast of the United States where he graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a Mechanical degree in Engineering. He has a variety of past jobs, including engineer, gardener, professional world-class backgammon player,  real estate investor and many more. Phil is one of the most controversial characters on the circuit while he’s playing with his own special style. He’s also very extravagant and talkative with his unusual and inventive speeches. He created the term ‘Felted‘ , meaning when you lost all your chips. Phil got his Nickname because he’s always wearing a hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses at the table and so looks as the forensic sketch of Theodore Kaczynski. Mr. Laak is a former roommate and best friend of fellow poker pro Antonio Esfandiari. They made the tv show ‘ I Bet You’ together and created the ‘What Johnny Lodden Thinks’ game. Phil has proven that he’s good in tournaments and high stakes cash games. He won the inaugural William Hill Poker Grand Prix, after beating Ram Vaswani, made 3 WPT final tables and appeared in several Poker Royale series and seasons of High Stakes Poker. He has written a monthly column in Bluff Magazine since 2005. He beated Polaris, a poker playing computer program developed by the University of Alberta in 2007, together with Ali Eslami.

(15)   =>   DAN   HARRINGTON

> born 06/12/1945 in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)

> resides now in Santa Monica, California.

> Nickname : ‘ Action Dan ‘

> was the 1995 WSOP Main Event World Champion Winner

> won 1 other Bracelet (’95 NL Hold’em)

> won 1 WPT-Title (’07 Legends of Poker)

> played against Bill Gates at Harvard.

> has Live Tournament Winnings of over$ 6,600,000 (until 2009)

Dan is a former backgammon champion, U.S Chessmaster and bankrutcy atterney. He’s one of the premium players from the Mayfair Club in the mid-1980s, along with others like Lederer, Seidel and Zolotow. He consideres himself as a part-time poker player(only for the money !) while he’s more a successful businessman. He owns and operates his own real estate and stock market company Anchor Loans. Dan is well-known for his green Boston Red Sox cap and for his solid, tight, agressive play with strict starting hands standards, which makes him one of the best tournament players in history. Mr. Harrington could be called ‘Mister Main Event’ for his deep runs in the WSOP ME. He was 17th in 1996, 6th in 1987, 3th in 2003, 4th in 2004 and of course did he won in 1995. His back to back Main Event final tables has been regarded as the greatest accomplishment in the World Series of Poker History. Besides playing poker, Dan is very famous for his series of instructional poker books, widely recognized as the “Poker Bible” for any NL Hold’em Tournament player, published by Two Plus Two Publishing and co-authored by Bill Robertie.

Well, we’ve still 14 players to go in my Most Famous Poker Players list and yet you see such great names. It’s only getting beter, that I can promise you. Another mysterious thing about those two players is the fact they both aren’t that much into online poker. They love the live action, each in a other way;). For now, I’m going to make some more money online, using the small ball poker strategy which always benefits me before trapping them and getting all the money in with at least 90% chance. I hope that I run good this time.

Cheers,

J.M.