Hilger became an online poker professional during 2001 and made over $100,000 playing online in his first year, playing limit poker from $1/$2 to $30/$60.

Each team consists of three players: two poker professionals, and one former or current professional football (soccer) player.

Prior to becoming a poker professional, Colclough worked as a computer programmer.

He knocked all seven other players at the final table, which included fellow poker professionals Jason Mercier and Michael Binger.

It was met with mixed reactions from poker professionals.

The players include poker professionals along with amateurs such as Jerry Buss and Fred Chamanara.

An average poker professional can earn six figures and become a television personality, but Nakamura, the biggest American chess hope since Fischer, cannot.

And we have become a nation of poker professionals.

Her brother in law Jason McCarthy is a gas man as well as a talented poker professional.

Orac was the world's first serious attempt at an AI poker player, and most poker professionals were surprised at how well it played.