PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2020 Kings of Tallinn1,100 Main Event 63rd €2,280 2018 OlyBet Kings of Tallinn1,100 Main Event 30th €2,110 2017 World Series of PokerEvent #39: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Super Turbo BOUNTY 176th $1,142 2014 PokerStars.com EPT Season 11 Barcelona5,300 Main Event 115th €12,050 2012 World Series of PokerEvent 44: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em 275th $1,937 2011 PokerStars.com EPT TallinnMain Event 3rd €110,000

Biography WPT Global ambassador Ethan Yau is one of the absolute titans in the poker vlogging space and has gone from playing $1/$2 to some of the highest stakes games imaginable in just a few years. Yau has found success not just on YouTube, but also on the green felt itself and is a WSOP bracelet winner as well as a two-time WPT Champion. In addition to those titles, he’s found success on the WSOP Circuit and has WSOPC five rings to his name.

Biography Gaelle Baumann is a French poker player with over $1.2 million in career earnings. She is currently sponsored by French poker site Winamax. Baumann is best known for being the final table bubble girl at the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event. She was also the last woman standing in the 2016 WSOP Main Event, finishing 102nd for $49,108. Biography Gaelle Baumann was born in 1983 in Strasbourg, France.

PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2024 PokerStars EPT Paris1,100 FPS Main Event 491st €2,170 2023 WSOP ParadiseEvent #10: $5,000 Main Event Championship 224th $12,100 2023 WSOP ParadiseEvent #11: $800 Flip & Go 76th $1,600 2023 WSOP ParadiseEvent #3: $25,000 GGMillion$ High Rollers Championship 21st $90,700 2023 WSOP ParadiseEvent #1: $1,500 Mystery Millions 122nd $3,690 2023 WSOP EuropeEvent #13: 10,350 Main Event NLH European Championship 60th €24,300 2023 WSOP EuropeEvent #11: 1,100 NLH Turbo Bounty Hunter 28th €1,890 2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus$25,000 NL Hold’em VI 4th $81,800 2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus$1,100 Eureka Main Event 243rd $2,225 2023 PokerStars EPT Barcelona1,100 Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event 847th €2,020 2023 Merit Poker Retro Series$3,300 Main Event 122nd $4,390 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #72: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty 91st $10,856 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #35: $10,000 Secret Bounty 7th $96,265 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #6: $5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha 12th $26,341 2023 Merit Poker Carmen Series$3,300 Main Event 30th $11,660 2022 Mediterranean Poker Party$10,400 MPP High Roller 18th $25,000 2022 Mediterranean Poker Party$5,300 MPP Main Event 118th $12,500 2022 Mediterranean Poker Party$2,200 MPP Warm Up 53rd $7,500 2022 PokerStars EPT Barcelona2,200 Estrellas Poker Tour High Roller 154th €5,090 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #86: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Championship 18th $32,025 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #70: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event World Championship 435th $31,900 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #62: $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout 369th $1,502 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #37: $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER No-Limit Hold’em 49th $23,929 2022 Wynn Summer Classic$2,200 Mystery Bounty 127th $6,464 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #27: $1,500 Shootout No-Limit Hold’em 75th $5,835 2022 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo25,000 High Roller 15th €74,050 2022 PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo5,300 Main Event 116th €10,410 2022 Wynn Millions$1,600 Mystery Bounty $1,500,000 GTD 116th $3,801 2021 Wynn Winter Classic$5,300 Wynn Winter Classic Main Event 21st $26,491 2021 World Series of Poker EuropeEvent #14: 10,350 WSOPE Main Event 59th €22,154 2021 Wynn Fall Classic$1,600 Mystery Bounty 202nd $3,030 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #65: $1,000 Mini Main Event 184th $3,061 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #64: $5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha 74th $8,070 2021 Wynn Fall Classic$3,500 NLH Championship 37th $24,655 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #35: $500 Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em 91st $1,362 2021 Wynn Fall Classic$2,200 Mystery Bounty 4th $125,160 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #15: $1,500 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 38th $7,329 2021 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #7: $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER NLH - $1M for 1st Final Day, $5M GTD 470th $2,472 2021 partypoker MILLIONS OnlineMain Event 142nd $10,912 PokerStars WCOOP 2020WCOOP-72-H: $5,200 NLHE 8-Max, Main Event 19t $50,596 2020 WPT World Online ChampionshipsEvent #10: $25,500 High Roller Championship, $5m GTD 5th $259,979 2020 WPT World Online ChampionshipsEvent #9: $3,200 Heads-Up Championship, $500k GTD 32nd $5,000 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #83: $10K WSOP Super MILLION$, $5M GTD 25th $42,189 2020 WPT World Online ChampionshipsEvent #6: $3,200 Mix-Max Championship, $3m GTD 26th $15,300 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #63: $500 Mini Main Event, $5M GTD 1034th $1,650 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #59: $2,500 Double Stack No Limit Hold’em 10th $22,946 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #48: $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER, $5M GTD, $1M to 1st 566th $2,459 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #45: $840 Bounty No Limit Hold’em 271st $923 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #41: $400 COLOSSUS Day 2, $3M GTD 834th $1,216 2020 PokerStars Stadium SeriesStadium Series Freezeout Weekly Final - High: $1,050 NLHE 8-Max, $1.

Biography Mikita Badziakouski is a Belarussian poker player and WSOP bracelet winner with over $31 million in lifetime earnings (Jan. 2022). He was also a partypoker Ambassador from 2019-2022, and is known as the 2023 WPT Big One for One Drop $1 million buy-in winner ($7,114,500). Poker Achievements Badziakouski’s first live tournament cashes came in Ukraine in the early 2010s, with his first six-figure score coming at EPT Monte Carlo in 2016.

Biography Hossein Ensan is an Iranian-German poker player who won the 2019 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. He topped a field of 8,569 players and defeated Italy’s Dario Sammartino heads-up to win $10,000,000. Biography Born in Iran, Ensan moved to Germany in his 20s before studying civil engineering at the University of Munster. He took up poker late in life, and burst onto the scene in August 2014 when he won the EPT Barcelona Seniors Event, before finishing third in the Main Event for 652,000.

Biography John Hennigan is an American poker player and six-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2018. Biography Born on August 10, 1970, Hennigan learned to play pool at a young age, traveling to play on the pool circuit. A big gambler, Hennigan gained the nickname “Johnny World” due to his willingness to gamble on anything in the world. Gambling on pool would lead him to poker, with his first recorded cash coming in 1997.

PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #62: $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha 159th $3,328 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #50: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship 2nd $809,167 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #73: $1,500 Razz 49th $2,639 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #68: $1,000 Million Dollar Bounty 758th $2,070 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #39: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed 51st $6,909 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #33: $3,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 125th $6,004 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #51: $3,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 50th $8,153 2021 World Series of PokerEvent #45: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship 7th $93,406 2021 WSOP.

Biography Kristen Bicknell is a Canadian poker player and former partypoker Ambassador. She has cashed for over $5.3 million during her career. She was the GPI Female Player of the Year for three years in a row (2017-19). Bicknell at the WSOP Bicknell is a four-time WSOP bracelet winner, having won the 2013 WSOP Ladies Event for $173,922 and the 2016 $1,500 Bounty Event for $290,768. Read More: Two-time Champion Kristen Bicknell Reminisces on her WSOP Memories

Biography Juan Pardo is a Spanish poker player with over $4.5 million in career earnings. Pardo is no stranger to success at the poker tables, winning numerous high roller titles over the course of his career including two Single-Day High Roller in the space of 12 hours at EPT Barcelona in 2019, the second of which being the largest cash of his career for 1,013,860. Five Spanish Poker Players to Watch in 2022

Biography Santhosh Suvarna is a successful businessman with a penchant for high-stakes poker tournaments. Suvarna has amassed over $7 million in live cashes, with most of that impressive sum coming from events played from 2022 onwards. Suvarna lives in Bangalore, India, and his first four live results were from tournaments hosted in his native India. The largest score was the equivalent of $8,839 back in 2020. However, since 2022, Suvarna has become a familiar face in the world’s biggest buy-in events worldwide.

Biography Eric Drache is an American former cardroom manager and tournament director who was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2012. Drache served as tournament director for the WSOP from 1973 to 1988, developed the concept of satellites, helped establish the PHoF, and has served as cardroom manager for Mirage and the Golden Nugget. Im not only surprised and honored to have been selected, Im also a bit embarrassed considering the other nominees, Drache said of his selection.

Biography Farid Jattin is a Colombian poker player with over $7 million in career earnings. The largest cash of his career came in 2019, when he finished seventh in the inaugural PSPC Players Championship in the Bahamas for $746,000. However, Jattin has an impressive resume with numerous high-profile tournament victories including the 2019 Potomac Poker Open Main Event In 2020, he won the $25,000 Challenge at the Aussie Millions, chopping heads-up with his poker coach George Wolff.

Biography Timothy Adams is a Canadian professional poker player hailing from Burlington, Ontario. Adams focuses primarily on poker tournaments and currently occupies second place in the Canadian all-time money list, trailing only the legendary Daniel Negreanu. Adams is the model professional poker player who goes about his business in a quiet yet deadly efficient manner. He began his poker tournament career playing low-stakes tournaments and his continued success allowed him to build a bankroll and climb up the game’s stakes.

Biography Hristivoje “ALLinPav” Pavlovic is a GGPoker Twitch squad member. With plenty of experience, Pavlovic is a former partypoker Team Pro and streams regularly on his Twitch channel. Sign up to GGPoker Don’t have an account with GGPoker yet? Don’t worry! Sign up through PokerNews and you will receive a welcome bonus worth up to $600. Your first deposit is matched 100% up to a maximum of $600! The bonus releases into your account in $10 increments each time you earn 6,000 Fish Buffet Points, which is the equivalent of $60 in rake or tournament fees.

Biography Allyn Shulman is an American poker player and World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner from California with more than $1.6 million in live tournament earnings. Shulman earned her bracelet by taking down the 2013 $1,000 NLH Seniors Championship for $603,713. The next month, the Laguna Niguel, California resident won Deepstack Extravaganza $5,500 NLH for $293,966. In 2016, Shulman made another deep run in the Deepstack Extravaganza $3,500 NLH and wound up finishing in fifth place for $60,000.

Biography Fintan Hand is an Irish poker player, Twitch streamer and PokerStars Ambassador. He plays online under the username “EasyWithAces” He joined PokerStars Team Online in 2017. Five Tips to Become a Successful Online Poker Twitch Streamer Live Poker Achievements Hand is a well-known figure on the United Kingdom and Ireland live poker circuit and has amassed just shy of $55,000 in live tournament winnings. The largest cash of his career came in in the 2017 Irish Open in Dublin for 19,445 while sporting a shamrock emblazoned suit.

Biography Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott was a British poker player. During his career, he won both a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet and a World Poker Tour title. He died in 2015 and was posthumously inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2017. Biography Ulliott was born in 1954 in Kingston upon Hull. He left school at 15 and became involved in organized crime. During his 20s, Ulliott served a number of spells in prison for various crimes including insurance fraud, armed robbery and affray.

Biography “This is beyond fairy tale. Its inconceivable!” Norman Chad Chris Moneymaker is an American poker player who won the 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event. He was the first Main Event winner to qualify through online poker. His victory, coupled with the rise in popularity of televised poker, gave rise to the early 2000s poker boom. This is sometimes dubbed ‘The Moneymaker Effect’. In 2019, Moneymaker was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.

Biography Dario Sammartino is an Italian poker player best known for finishing runner-up in the 2019 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Prior to his deep run, the the native of Naples, Italy had built up career earnings of over $8 million as well as winning the inaugural Global Poker Masters with Italy. In 2019, he cashed seven times and reached two final tables: a third-place finish in the $10,000 H.

Biography Originally from Longmeadow, Massachusetts, Jonathan Jaffe has more than $5.6 million in lifetime earnings as of summer 2022 according to The Hendon Mob. That includes a career-best $670,636 for finishing runner-up to Jonathan Little in the 2008 World Poker Tour (WPT) World Poker Finals at Foxwoods. Jaffe, who once pranked ESPN by claiming to be a dolphin trainer on a World Series of Poker (WSOP) broadcast, also won the 2022 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open $25,500 High Roller for $574,085, and in January 2018 took second in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) $25,000 High Roller for $569,760.

PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2024 PokerStars EPT Paris2,200 FPS High Roller 105th €5,860 2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus$1,100 Eureka Main Event 10th $25,750 2023 PokerStars EPT Cyprus$2,200 Eureka High Roller 66th $6,725 2023 PokerStars EPT Barcelona1,100 Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event 228th €5,330 2023 PokerStars EPT Paris1,100 FPS Paris Main Event 130th €3,000 2022 Triton Poker CyprusEvent #2: $100,000 NLH 8-Handed 2nd $1,390,000 2021 PokerStars EPT Prague5,300 EPT Main Event 67th €14,720 2021 World Series of Poker EuropeEvent #10: 25,000 NLH Platinum High Roller 10th €43,090 PokerStars WCOOP 2021WCOOP-42-H: $5,200 NLHE 8-Max, $700K Gtd 4th $68,166 2021 WPT World Online ChampionshipsEvent #2: $2,100 Omaha Championship 10th $7,543 2020 Irish Open OnlineEvent #6: 50,000 GTD The Hendon Mob Championship 34th €663 2019 PokerStars EPT Prague5,300 EPT Main Event 73rd €12,150 2019 WSOP International Circuit Holland Casino Rotterdam2nd €37,121 2019 World Series of PokerEvent #73: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT - World Championship 894th $17,135 2018 partypoker LIVE UK Poker ChampionshipsMain Event 55th £4,750 2017 Unibet Open BucharestMain Event 11th €7,405 2017 Master Classics of PokerMain Event 38th €8,577

PokerNews Covered Events Event Place Prize 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #87: $2,500 Mixed Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better 3rd $94,681 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #58: $3,000 Limit Hold’em (6-Handed) 3rd $72,681 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #52: $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw 1st $181,978 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #44: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 201st $5,253 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #37: $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em 144th $4,346 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship 6th $62,255 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #5: $400 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Max 79th $1,853 2023 World Series of PokerEvent #5: $1,500 Dealer’s Choice (6-Handed) 11th $7,842 2023 World Series of PokerOnline Event #1: $333 No-Limit Hold’em Triple Treys Summer Tip Off 32nd $1,904 The Return - A Borgata Championship Event$2,100 Bounty Event 46th $1,940 2022 MSPT Venetian November$1,600 Main Event 4th $75,017 2022 MSPT Venetian November$1,100 Main Event 48th $2,450 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #46: $5,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em 55th $11,991 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #26: $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship 10th $18,506 2022 World Series of PokerEvent #13: $1,500 Limit Hold’em 8th $13,789 2022 World Series of PokerOnline No-Limit Hold’em BIG $500 104th $1,118 2022 World Series of PokerOnline $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller Freezeout 21st $8,720 2022 The Lodge Championship SeriesEvent #15: $1,000 NLH Turbo 2nd $19,478 2021 MSPT South Dakota State Poker Championship$1,100 Main Event 16th $5,675 MSPT Riverside CasinoMSPT Riverside $1,100 Main Event 6th $31,716 2021 Wynn Spring ClassicWynn Spring Classic $1M GTD Championship 50th $9,067 2020 Mid-States Poker Tour Venetian $1,100 Main EventMSPT Venetian $1,100 Main Event 13th $10,566 2020 WSOP.

Biography Maria Lampropulos is an Argentinian poker player. During her career she has amassed over $3.4 million in tournament winnings, including partypoker MILLIONS and PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) titles. During her career, she has also won titles in Chile, Austria, Uruguay and Spain and is currently 11th on the Women’s All Time Money List. In 2016, she was defeated heads-up by her own boyfriend in the Eureka Poker Tour Rozvadov Main Event.