Pro Poker Players

Erik Seidel (born November 6, 1959) is an American professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada with eight World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title.

Seidel was born in New York City. Originally a tournament backgammon player for eight years, he eventually started playing the stock market, and then moved on to poker. He ...

Antonio Esfandiari (born Amir Esfandiari, December 8, 1978 in Tehran, Iran) is a professional poker player.

When he was 9 years old his family moved to San Jose, California.

At the age of 19, he changed his name to Antonio which was adopted from living in a Mexican American community in San Jose, and became ...

Johnny Chan (Traditional Chinese: 陳強尼), born in Guangzhou (Canton), China in 1957, now living in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a professional poker player.

Early life

Chan moved with his family in 1962 from Guangzhou to Hong Kong, then in 1968 to Phoenix, Arizona and later in 1973 to Houston, Texas where his family owned restaurants. He was going to continue in the family business, but when he was 16 he went on a junket to Las Vegas, Nevada. When he was 21, Chan dropped out of the University of Houston, where he was majoring in hotel and restaurant management, and moved to Las Vegas ...

Jennifer C. Harman-Traniello (born November 29, 1964, in Reno, Nevada) is an American professional poker player.

Biography

Harman was born and raised in Reno, Nevada. She started playing poker in 1972 at eight years of age. She later graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno. Harman won her first World Series of Poker bracelet ...