Bernard Lee
May 3, 2008
Bernard Lee initially catapulted into the poker spotlight after finishing 13th in the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, becoming the year’s top New England finisher. Featured on ESPN, Lee was seen as the consummate scholar and gentlemen at the poker table who is passionate about his family. His portfolio of pictures included his kids and wife, which his kissed before each level and every major confrontation. This portrayal left an indelible impression among poker fans and fellow players alike.
Since then, Lee has enjoyed other worldwide tournament success. In November of 2006, Lee won the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em event at the World Poker Finals. Additionally, he has cashed in other World Poker Tour (WPT) and WSOP circuit events including: - 11th place finish at the 2007 WPT Gulf Coast Poker Championship in Biloxi, Mississippi - 6th place finish at the December 2006 WSOP Atlantic City Circuit $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Event - 19th place finish at the 2006 United States Poker Championship at the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. With over $900,000 in career tournament earnings, Lee has established himself as a strong competitor on the tournament circuit. Lee officially turned professional in July of 2007.
Media Personality : Since September 2005, Lee has written the Sunday poker column for the Boston Herald, in which he has taken his readers on a weekly venture through the booming world of tournament poker. Revolving around a critical hand, his column gives readers a glimpse into his intense experiences on the tournament poker circuit. Using real life scenarios, he is able to create understandable lessons that poker players can put to use immediately. In April 2006, Lee proudly joined the ESPN.com Poker website as a regular columnist. In this column, Lee highlights his experiences as he journeys through the world of satellite and main event tournament poker. For both, he has garnered rave reviews from his readers. Recently, he has also been a guest columnist for several magazines.
Debuting in May 2007, Lee hosts the only poker radio show in the Boston metropolitan area. “The Bernard Lee Poker Show” incorporates interviews with poker guests including well known players and prominent industry personnel. In addition to current poker news and related information, Lee utilizes calls and e-mails from listeners to discuss poker topics and tips. Past guests have included Joseph Hachem, Chris Moneymaker, Norman Chad, Kirk Morrison and Paul Wasicka. This program has been extremely well received by the Boston market, as the show has been recently expanded to three nights a week (Tuesdays 6-7pm, Thursdays 9-10pm and Saturdays 10-11pm).
Teacher : Lee was educated in the New England area (Harvard University, BA, MA; Babson College MBA). In addition to his academic studies, Lee has truly become a student of poker. By reading a variety of poker books, his wife often jokes that by now he should have a PhD in poker. With his ever increasing knowledge, he brought together two of his passions: poker and teaching. Lee has extensive experience teaching, as he taught high school and college students for almost 10 years.
Pokerwise, Lee has been teaching poker to private students since 2005, discussing advanced concepts to eager students with the desire to play in larger tournaments such as WPT and WSOP Events. Lee’s students have been internalizing his training and translating this learning into results on the poker table. Based on his innate ability to teach, Lee caught the attention of the WPT Boot Camp. In early 2007, he was proud to join this elite teaching group as an instructor.
[[Personal : ]]Lee currently lives just outside of Boston, Massachusetts with his supportive wife of over eleven years and two beautiful children, ages 4 and 2. He also enjoys competing in several sports (e.g. golf, tennis, running).
Bill Edler
March 3, 2008
William (Bill) Edler is a professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada. He has a law degree from the University of California-Berkeley.
Edler won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2007 by claiming the $5,000 buy-in shorthanded No-Limit hold’em tournament. The win earned Edler over $900,000.
Edler has also had success in heads-up playing, winning the inaugural $10,000 buy-in Heads-Up Poker Championship in Compton, California in 2007.
In addition, Edler has cashed seven times on the World Poker Tour, including a final table appearance at the Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament in 2007. In September of 2007 he won his first WPT title at the Gulf Coast Poker Championship, winning $747,615.
In 2007 Edler cashed in the money for the first time in the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em Main Event Championship coming in 23rd place out of a field of 6,358 players, winning $333,490.
As of 2008, Edler’s total live tournament winnings exceed $3,375,000.
Liz Lieu
February 6, 2008
Liz Lieu (born August 2, 1974 in Vietnam) is a professional poker player.
Lieu was primarily a limit Texas hold ‘em cash games player for a number of years, before embracing tournament play at the 2005 World Series of Poker. When John Phan encouraged her to enter the $1500 no-limit hold’em event, she ended up in fifth place with over $168,000 in prize money. She went on to place 12th in the $5000 no-limit hold’em event the same year and cashed in the $3000 tournament as well.
The next stop was the Bellagio’s 2005 Festa Al Lago tournament, where she placed fourth in the $2500 no limit hold’em event and 16th in two other top tournaments in the series, taking home more than $80,000 for less than a week’s worth of work. She went on to finish in the top ten spots at the World Poker Finals, Five Diamond World Poker Classic, and the Gold Strike World Poker Open.
Lieu’s first tournament win came at the 2006 L.A. Poker Classic at Commerce Casino, where she won the $1000 limit hold’em event. Her second tournament win came when she won the same event in 2007.
In 2006, Lieu was honored by the WSOP and ESPN as a “Final Table Grand Marshall” along with Johnny Chan.
As of 2007, Lieu has earned over $590,000 in live tournament play.
Hevad Khan
February 5, 2008
Hevad “RaiNKhaN” Khan is not a robot. He’s not a computer. He’s not nefarious. He just has an uncanny ability to focus on a whole lot of things at once. Of course, there was a time that not everyone believed him. After all, red flags start flying when you see one online player in more than 20 single table tournaments at the same time. And that’s when the rumors started. RaiNKhaN had to be a bot, most people assumed. Finally, it got to be too much for the young man from Poughkeepsie, NY. He handed his friend a video camera to shoot a movie of him playing 20 tourneys at the same time… and became a legend of online poker.
RaiNKhaN, as he is known to just about everybody who plays online poker, started off as a professional gamer, working the Starcraft circuit like a pro. He turned his attention to poker when he realized how much money he could make. Before long, he was taking on the legendary status, as videos of him playing circulated around the Internet. For a while, the RaiNKhaN lore would remain solely online. That all changed in 2007 when RaiNKhaN made his way to the World Series Main Event.
It was clear in the early days of the Main Event that RaiNKhaN was going to do something special. If you couldn’t tell it by watching his hands, you could sense it by the energy and exuberance he brought to the tables. Animated and at times quite loud, RaiNKhaN picked up an instant following among PokerStars fans. It proved to be an energy that would carry him all the way to the Main Event final table, where RaiNKhaN placed sixth and won $900,000. Now RaiNKhaN is taking his rightful place on Team PokerStars Pro where he will continue to play online and venture further into the live tournament scene.
Hevad Khan can be found playing at PokerStars under the name ‘RaiNKhan’.
Joe Sebok
February 4, 2008
Joe Sebok is a professional poker player from San Francisco, California. His stepfather, Barry Greenstein, is also a professional poker player. He is known as “The Cub” because he calls Greenstein “Bear.” Beginning professional play in 2005, as of 2007 his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,400,000.
Sebok is also the co-founder and owner of PokerRoad.com. The PokerRoad is a GreenBok Production, and is a joint venture between Sebok and Greenstein. The PokerRoad is a poker multi-media outlet that supplies Poker Radio, Poker TV, Poker in Print, among others. Sebok serves not only as the active President, but also as the co-host of PokerRoad Radio with friend Gavin Smith and cash game player, Bart Hanson.
Sebok is the former host on Pokerwire Radio, with Gavin Smith and Joe Stapleton. Sebok was previously a host for The Circuit, a podcast produced by Card Player.
Gavin Smith is one of his best friends. They are constantly involved in prop bets with each other. One of the more notable ones was who would win the most Card Player Player of the Year points during hold’em events at the 2006 World Series of Poker. The loser had to wear a different costume on each day of the Main Event. Neither made a final table, but Smith accumulated more points for the victory. Sebok wore a bear costume with a diaper on day 1B of the main event. Although he was eliminated on the first day, Sebok was required to show up for each of the other Day One sessions in costumes chosen by Smith. In addition to the bear costume, he also appeared as Spider-Man and Wonder Woman. This bet helped lead to an Internet-tv show called “Prop Bets” on the site RawVegas.tv where Joe and Gavin compete in events such as competitive eating, billiards, and other things. Other people he considers best friends are Tuan Le, Nam Le, Jeff Madsen, Mimi Tran, radio host Scott Huff and radio host Joe Stapleton.
Sebok is a fan of rock and roll and was a founding drummer of the San Francisco instrumental trio, Parker Street Cinema.
Sebok is featured on the December 2007 cover of Bluff Magazine.
Lucienne (Lucy) “Golden Ovaries” Rokach
February 4, 2008
Lucienne (Lucy) “Golden Ovaries” Rokach is an English professional poker player from Stoke-on-Trent. She was born in Cairo, Egypt and is now regarded as one of the top female players in Europe. She also commentated on the popular Late Night Poker television series with Jesse May during its fourth season, and had a 3rd place finish in the series 6 grand final (the highest-ever finish for a female player in a Late Night Poker grand final.)
Lucy was a history teacher and car dealer before entering the poker world. In her first tournament she won £5,000 at the Rubicon Club in Wolverhampton. She won the 2003 European Poker Top award for Lifetime Achievement after winning the Winter Festival in Dublin in both 2001 and 2003.
Rokach made money finishes in the World Series of Poker $10,000 no limit hold’em main event in 1996 and 2004.
Rokach has been described by Barry Greenstein as the best female no limit hold ‘em player in the world.
Lucy also finds time to commentate on The Poker Channel, alongside Gary “The Choirboy” Jones and Roy “The Boy” Brindley.
As of 2007, her total live tournament winnings exceed $1,200,000.
Peter Evans
February 4, 2008
Peter Evans is an English retired scrap metal dealer and a poker player, who came to the limelight when finishing as runner-up in the first series of Late Night Poker. He currently lives in Birmingham, England.
Evans rarely plays outside the United Kingdom, but when he does, it is usually in Las Vegas. Though he does still earn well from poker including a £21,000 ($39,778) payday for a second place finish in the £500 no limit Texas hold ‘em poker tournament in Walsall, England on 24 February 2005.
His most recent result was at the Euro Finals of Poker 10th Edition, held in Paris. It was a €3000 EFOP Diamond Championship Event - No Limit Hold’em. It was held from Saturday 9th - Monday 11th December. He was the only British person to make it to the final table and finished in second place winning €79,940 (£50,288). It was won by Frechman Jérome Zerbib who won just over €140,000 (approx. £90,000). He was the only non-French person who finished in the top ten.
Along with poker, he once was a well respected snooker player.
As of 2007, his total live tournament winnings exceed $300,000.
Dave Welch
February 4, 2008
Dave Welch is an English poker player based in St. Albans, who made several appearances on the Late Night Poker television series, including the season 1 grand final and the season 6 semi-final.
His biggest cash win to date is FF 250,000 ($40,750) for winning the 1998 Euro Finals of Poker no limit hold’em poker tournament, defeating a field including Padraig Parkinson, Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott, Patrick Bruel and Surinder Sunar.
As of 2007, his total live tournament winnings exceed $340,000.
Welch is married to poker player Debbie Berlin, another Late Night Poker regular.
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