17/11/2009, Players
Poker tournaments are enjoying a fantastic increase in popularity lately and the best poker players soon became celebrity stars.
Poker players have excellent skills, strong personalities and great abilities to read their opponents. They are good mathematicians, investors, and even psychologists.
But who are these professional poker players and what are their life stories?
We have completed a list of the best poker players in the whole world, because we are sure you are very interested in reading their stories and experiences.

Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey is an American professional poker player who has won seven World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title. His total total live tournament winnings exceed $13.500.000!
He is considered the best cash game player in the whole world, an unstoppable poker player, a King of the poker game. His concentration and his capacity of reading his opponents are amazing. Phil Ivey is an aggressive poker player.

Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Negreanu is a Romanian-Canadian professional poker player who won four World Series of Poker bracelets and two World Poker Tour titles.
His total live tournament winnings exceed $12.427.047. Poker game is his first passion. He has always considered himself to be a “poker fan first, and a poker player second”. Daniel Negreanu published many articles and tips on poker games.

Jamie Gold
Jamie Gold is an American poker player, known for winning the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event. His total live tournament winnings exceed $12.100.000!
Jamie Gold also participated in numerous poker tournaments for charitable causes. He currently divides his time between his activities as president of production for an entertainment company, Buzznation and poker competitions.

Phil Hellmuth
Phil Hellmuth is also an American professional poker player who won 11 World Series of Poker bracelets and the 1989 WSOP Main Event. He is member of the Poker Hall of Fame. His total live tournament winnings exceed $10.900.000.
Phil Hellmuth made several instructional poker videos and he has written many articles and poker books including “Play Poker like the Pros”, “Bad Beats and Lucky Draws”, “The Greatest Poker Hands ever Played” and “Poker Brat”.

Joe Hachem
Joe Hachem is a Lebanese-Australian professional poker player. He was the first Australian who won the main event of the 2005 World Series of Poker. His total live tournament winnings exceed $10.850.000. He is one of the five poker players to win both a World Series of Poker main event and a World Poker Tour championship.
Joe Hachem thinks that his discipline and his personal control helped him to make the good decisions in life.