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In Wikipedia:
Barry Greenstein’ “(born December 30, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is a professional poker player.
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In Wikipedia:
Hal Fowler (died 2000) was an American poker player.
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In Wikipedia:
Mark Teltscher’ “is an English poker player, based in London, England.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
He was the better poker player, the better at chance, but that was only because he was better at calculating the odds, and his study and learning had taught him when folding was the greater luck.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
In summer he finished filming the leading role in the independent feature film naked he is also a keen poker player (he was mentored by’ ‘mad’’ marty wilson) he started off.
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In Wikipedia:
Hal Fowler (died 2000) was an American poker player.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
After all he is now a professional poker player, although when he pulls out his mystery ball he is warned for indecency.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
He was the youngest poker player inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame and was widely regarded as one of the best Chip Reese, was an American professional poker player and gambler from Centerville, Ohio.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
He is a good? but cautious? poker player who joined other lawmakers in Springfield, Ill., for weekly games.
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In Wikipedia:
Dan Harrington’ “(born December 6, 1945 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is a professional poker player.
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In Wikipedia:
David Benyamine (born July 5, 1972 in Paris, France) is a French professional poker player with a World Poker Tour title.
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In Wikipedia:
Massimiliano Pescatori (born 1971 in Milan) is an Italian professional poker player.
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In Wikipedia:
Andrew Norman “The Poker Pundit” Glazer’ “(December 28, 1955July 4, 2004) was an American poker player, writer, and lawyer who was born in Amityville, New York.
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In Wikipedia:
Alexander Kravchenko’ “(, born April 21, 1971 in Arkhangelsk, Soviet Union) is a professional poker player based in Moscow, Russia.
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In Wikipedia:
Barry Shulman (born May 8 1946 in Seattle, Washington) is an American poker player and the CEO of CardPlayer Magazine.
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In Wikipedia:
Rafi Amit (-RRB-, is an Israeli professional poker player from Holon, Israel.
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In Wikipedia:
John Guth (born June 21, 1981) is a professional poker player from Vancouver, Washington who won a bracelet at the World Championship Limit Omaha – 8 event at the 2007 World Series of Poker.
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In Wikipedia:
Stuart Fox (born 1979 in Birmingham, England) is a professional poker player who started off playing online poker and has now become one of the United Kingdom’s most recognized and successful tournament players.
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In Wikipedia:
Joey “Howard Hughes” Hawthorne (Died before 1997) was a professional poker player from California.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Andy Reid is a good poker player.
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