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    Katja Thater (German pronunciation: [ˈkatja ˈtaːtɐ]; born 14 July 1966 in Hamburg) is a German professional poker player and horse breeder. She is married...
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  • photographer Katja Shchekina (born 1986), Russian supermodel Katja Špur (1908–1991), Slovene journalist, writer, poet, translator Katja Thater (born 1966)...
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    miserably when auditioning to be a singer in The Fabulous Baker Boys, a role that was written specially for her by Steve Kloves. She was nominated for an Academy...
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    employee at a local restaurant, in Spring Hill, Tennessee. Moneymaker claimed that his ancestors made silver and gold coins and chose the name "Moneymaker"...
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    Lowball Event (at a final table that also included fellow professionals Lyle Berman and Steve Zolotow). She had never played that game prior to the event, but...
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    11, 2018, Brunson announced he was retiring from tournament poker that summer. That day, he entered the $10,000 2–7 Single Draw at the 2018 WSOP. He made...
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    apologized to the fans in an interview, and said that he no longer blamed any other players for his behavior, and that there was no excuse for his behavior at...
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    concluded that Ivey's actions constituted cheating and that, had it been necessary to make a finding on dishonesty, it would have determined that Ivey's...
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    decided to cash out the $400,000 and announced in his winner's interview that he will be ready for Season 2. In 2021, Phil Hellmuth challenged Daniel Negreanu...
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    fourth in the One Drop High Roller tournament, the successor to the Big One that he had won a year earlier, and earned $1,433,438. As of 2023, his total live...
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    1991, one month before defending her doctoral dissertation, she decided that she no longer wished to pursue academia and left school. In 1992, she married...
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    Schwartz Erik Seidel Alan Smurfit Mike Spegal David Stucke Gary Styczynski Katja Thater Jason Warner Ram Vaswani Jerry Yang Ryan Young 2008/ 2008 E Michael Banducci...
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    PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller Event for $295,960, then went on later that month to take 3rd in a A$100,000 buy-in Aussie Millions tournament for $618...
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    Annie Duke. Lederer is a founder and board member of Tiltware, the company that launched Full Tilt Poker in 2004. In 2011, the Full Tilt Poker website was...
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    his ability to read opponents. When asked about this, Negreanu explained that the most important skill he employs is observing what hands his opponents...
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    well that he earned substantial money by playing these games against others for cash. After graduating from college, he moved to Houston, Texas. That is...
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    Schwartz Erik Seidel Alan Smurfit Mike Spegal David Stucke Gary Styczynski Katja Thater Jason Warner Ram Vaswani Jerry Yang Ryan Young 2008/ 2008 E Michael Banducci...
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    complaint, complaining that Ferguson and three other directors of the poker website Full Tilt Poker were running a Ponzi scheme that paid out $444 million...
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    defunct Poker Players Alliance. In a December 2006 interview, Raymer said that he was considering running for Vice President of the United States in 2008...
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    a book titled Ace on the River. Tuan Le, a WPT Season 3 champion, claims that book showed him how to succeed on the poker circuit. Greenstein is known...
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    France – Poker Internet". thats-poker.fr. Retrieved August 9, 2017. Price, Sadonna (March 8, 2019). "Famous Female Gamblers That Have Made History"....
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    known as heads-up play, Minieri and his opponent Isaac Baron requested that the game pause to look over a deal; the deal was offered based on their chip...
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    awarded each year. In 1990, there were only 14 bracelet events. By 2000, that number increased to 24. As the popularity of poker has increased during the...
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    “OMGClayAiken” as the antithesis of the “macho” screen names that are prevalent in online poker in hopes that other players would be embarrassed to lose to him....
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    Schwartz Erik Seidel Alan Smurfit Mike Spegal David Stucke Gary Styczynski Katja Thater Jason Warner Ram Vaswani Jerry Yang Ryan Young 2008/ 2008 E Michael Banducci...
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    Roller event at the 2010 L.A. Poker Classic earning $425,330 in a final table that included runner-up Daniel Alaei, Jason Mercier (3rd), Lee Markholt (4th)...
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    several board and card games. Reese later described himself as "a product of that year." By the age of six, he was regularly beating fifth-graders at poker...
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    six-figure bet that he could break 100 on a desert golf course four times in a day using just a five iron, sand wedge, and putter. He has also bet that he would...
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  • representing. e.g.: below Scott Gray is identified with the Irish flag as that is the country he is representing, despite Gray being born in Canada. 1:...
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    shuffled it. The tournament's judging staff determined that the bending was not accidental and that Williams had cheated based on two criteria: Each time...
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