Introducing Team FullTilt Poker

Howard Lederer was born on 30th October 1964 in Concord, New Hampshire, USA.

Lederer is one of the founding members of “Tiltware Inc” he is also co-owner and CEO of the company best known as Full Tilt Poker.

• Total live tournament winnings over $4,800,000
• 2 WSOP Bracelets
  • 2000 – WSOP: $5,000 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo -$198,000
  • 2001 – WSOP: $5,000 Deuce to Seven -$165,870
• 2 WPT Championship Titles
  • 2002 November: Foxwoods
  • 2003 March: Poker Million cruise – $5,000 Limit Hold ’em
• 2 Hall of Fame Classic titles:
  • 1994, 1995: $2,500 No-Limit Deuce to Seven Draw
• 3 Bellagio Five-Star World Poker Classic titles:
  • 2003 April: $2,500 No-Limit Hold ’em
  • 2004 April: $2,500 No-Limit Hold
  • 2004 April: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha

World Series of Poker – 6th place $5K Limit/No-Limit Hold ‘em event and 9th $5K World Championship 7-Card Stud Hi/Lo event June 2008.

• Golfing enthusiast
• A fan of the Grateful Dead he has attended over 125 concerts.

Phil Ivey was born on 1st February 1976 in Riverside, California, USA then at 3 months old moved with his family to Roselle, New Jersey, USA.

• 5 WSOP Bracelets before his 30th Birthday, first bracelet win aged 23
  • 2000: $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha $195,000
  • 2002 – WSOP: $2,500 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo $118,440
  • 2002 – WSOP: $2,000 S.H.O.E. $107,540
  • 2002 – WSOP: $1,500 7 Card Stud $132,000
  • 2005 – WSOP: $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha $635,603
• 1 WPT Championship
  • Los Angeles Poker Classic – 2008
• 2 x Bellagio tournament wins
• 2 x Commerce tournament wins
• $10 Million in Career Tournament Earnings
• 2005 Player of the Year by All In Magazine, Bluff Magazine, and the UK Gaming Awards.
• In 2005 Ivey won $1 million for winning the Monte Carlo Millions tournament then 24 hours later he won the The FullTiltPoker.net Invitational Live from Monte Carlo which carried an additional $600,000 in prize money.
• Record eight appearances at a WPT final table.

• 2nd WSOP Circuit Event – Harrah’s Lake Tahoe 2005.
• 2 x WPT final tables
• 2nd Omaha Hi/Lo -WSOP 2006
• 3rd $50,000 HORSE – WSOP 2006
• 4th $5K HORSE – WSOP 2007

• Has a collection of over 200 NBA jerseys.
• Married his high school honey.
• Owns a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren

Started playing poker before he was even 10 years old.

Part of the game design team for Full Tilt Poker.

2nd National Heads-Up Poker Championship, 2006

• Chris graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science (virtual network algorithms) from UCLA.
• Can cut a carrot in half with a playing card from 10 feet away.
• The wide-brimmed cowboy hat and sunglasses combo that distinguish Chris Ferguson was an attempt to cover the fact that he was a college student.
• Swing dance fan.
• Turned $0 into $10,000 at Full Tilt Poker.

John Juanda was born on the 8th July 1971 in Medan, Indonesia, moved to United States in 1990, and earned an MBA from Seattle University, he begun playing poker tournaments in 1996.

• Over $8.5 Million in Live Tournament Earnings
• 4 WSOP Bracelets
  • 2002 – WSOP: $1,500 Triple Draw Lowball Ace to Five – $49,620
  • 2003 – WSOP: $2,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split – $130,200
  • 2003 – WSOP: $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha – $203,840
  • 2008 – WSOPE: £10,000 No Limit Hold’em Main Event – $1,539,250
• 2008 WSOP Europe Main Event Champion
• Has made 6 World Poker Tour final tables
• Winner of the inaugural Professional Poker Tour event in November 2004 at Foxwoods.
• Winner of the Monte Carlo Millions Consolation tournament.
• Winner of the Crown Australian Poker Championship (AUD100,000) speed poker event held in 2006.
• 3 Best All Around Player awards
  • 2001,2002 Cardplayer Magazine tournament Player of the Year.

• 2nd place, FullTiltPoker.Net Invitational Live from Monte Carlo, November 2005.
• 6th place Monte Carlo Millions Main Event, 2005
• 2nd place, European Poker Tour’s London £1 Million Showdown, 2008
• 2nd Bellagio Season 1
• 3rd WPT Invitational Season 2
• 4th Mirage Season 3
• 5th Aruba Season 3
• 5th Niagara Falls Season 5
• 6th Bellagio Season 3
• 7th PartyPoker Cruise Season 2
• 8th Legends Season 5

Was a door-to-door Bible salesman.

Wants to be known as Dr. Juanda in the future.

Learnt to play poker from her mom, started playing aged 8 in 1972, graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno, USA.

• Live tournament winnings of over $2.2 Million.
• 2 WSOP Bracelets
  • 2000 – WSOP: $5,000 No Limit Deuce-to-Seven Draw – $146,250
  • 2002 – WSOP: $5,000 Limit Hold’em – $212,440
• Co-Author of Doyle Brunson’s – Super System 2 the chapter on Limit hold’em in the book was written by her.
• Known mainly as a high limits cash game player at the Bellagio.

• 4th WPT Five-Diamond World Poker Classic
• 5th Inaugural Professional Poker Tour event
• 2nd WSOP Circuit Championship Event held at the Rio, Las Vegas, USA

• The only woman in the world that holds two bracelets for open events.
• Married to stylist Marco Traniello, now also a pro poker player.
• Did 1200 sit-ups on a dare.
• Received two kidney transplants
• Won $9 million for The Corporation going heads-up with Andy Beal

Phil Gordon was born on the 6th July 1970 in El Paso, Texas, United States.

Learnt to play poker from his Aunt Lib, graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in computer science in 1991.

Former software engineer

• Live tournament winnings over $1,700,000
• 1 WPT Championship
  • Winner of WPT’s Bay 101 “Shooting Stars” tournament, 2005 – $360,000
• 3 WSOP final tables
• Winner of the Pro Division of the World Poker Tour inaugural UltimateBet tournament in Aruba- $600,000
• Author of 3 poker books
  • Poker: The Real Deal – sold 100,000 copies within four months.
  • Poker book Box Set: Phil Gordon’s Little Black Book, Phil Gordon’s Little Green Book, and Phil Gordon’s Little Blue Book.
• Featured in the Travel Channels documentary – Inside the World Series of Poker.
• Commentator for several high profile events.
• Regular columnist for leading poker magazines.

• 4th World Series of Poker Championship 2001, $399,610
• 4th WSOPC -Harrah’s New Orleans 2006, $116,697
• 6th WSOP – $2,000 Pot Limit hold ’em , 2005
• 3rd WSOP – $2,500 Omaha Hi/Lo Split ,2005
• 3rd WSOP – $1,500 No Limit Texas hold ’em Shootout event, 2005 – $75,350
• 8th WSOP $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em w/Re-buys

• A brilliant bridge player having won two national bridge competitions.
• Once threw a golf ball 85 yards for a birdie.
• Has backpacked across 50 countries on 6 continents

• $7.3 Million in Live Tournament winnings
• 1 WSOP Bracelet
  • 2008 WSOP, Event 4, Mixed Hold’em – $374,505
• 2 WPT Championships
  • Winner – PartyPoker Million III, WPT Season 2, 2002 – $1,000,000
  • Winner – Ultimate Poker Classic WPT Season 2, $500,000
• Winner of 2007 Aussie Millions, $795,000.
• Winner of FullTiltPoker.net Poker Pro Showdown event held in 2006 – $600,000
• First ever WPT Player of the Year, 2004
• Within top 20 all-time money list

• 10th Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic WPT Season 6, $115,630
• 26th WSOPE 2007 , Event 3, No-Limit Texas Hold’em Main Event, £30,770
• 2nd WSOP 2006, Event 30, No-Limit Hold’em- Short-Handed 6/table – $357,435
• 5th L.A. Poker Classic, WPT Season 3 – $206,657
• 3rd WSOP 2008, Event 45, World Championship H.O.R.S.E. – $781,440
• 4th WSOP 2008, Event 18, No-Limit 2-7 Draw w/re-buys – $156,152
• 3rd Borgata Winter Poker Open, 2006

• Former All League quarterback.
• Previously a blackjack dealer.
• Author of poker book: World Poker Tour: Making the Final Table.
• Swedish ancestry as suggested by both his first and last names.

Erik Seidel was born on the 6th November 1959 in New York, USA, he is a member of Full Tilt Poker’s design team.

• $9.2 Million in Live Tournament Winnings with 53 WSOP cashes to date.
• 8 WSOP Bracelets
  • WSOP -1992:$2,500 Limit Hold’em – $168,000
  • WSOP -1993: $2,500 Omaha 8 or better – $94,000
  • WSOP – 1994: $5,000 Limit Hold’em – $210,000
  • WSOP – 1998: $5,000 Deuce to Seven Draw – $132,700
  • WSOP -2001: $3,000 No Limit Hold’em – $411,300
  • WSOP – 2003: $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha – $146,100
  • WSOP – 2005: $2,000 No Limit Hold’em – $611,795
  • WSOP – 2007: $5,000 World Championship No-Limit Deuce to Seven Draw Lowball with rebuys -$538,835
• 1 WPT Championship
  • WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic, 2008 – $992,890
• Second Place in the 1988 World Series of Poker, the final hand was featured in the movie Rounders vs Jackie Chan.
• Top 10 All-Time Money List for WSOP

• 2nd World Series of Poker 1991, Event 2, Limit Hold’em $105,000
• 2nd World Series of Poker, 1988
• 2nd Aussie Millions $100k, 2007 -$550,000(AUD)
• 2nd Aussie Millions $10k main event, 2008 – $1,000,000(AUD)
• 4th WSOP-2008, Event 43, Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Split 8-or-Better – $68,305
• 10th North American Poker Championship, WPT Season 7 – $56,868
• 5th WSOP-2008, Event 14, World Championship 7-Card Stud – $92,825
• 4th Doyle Brunson North American Poker Championship, WPT Season 3 – $165,000

• Worked on Wall Street as a stock broker.
• Spent 8 years as a professional backgammon player.
• Aged 12 he appeared on “To Tell the Truth”

• $4.1 Million in Live Tournament Earnings, Bloch donates his tournament earnings to charity.
• 2nd WSOP 2006: $50K HORSE Tournament, $1,029,600, played over 286 hands the longest recorded in WSOP history.
• 2nd WSOP 2008: $10K Pot-Limit Hold ‘em Tournament, $488,048
• 2nd NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, 2008
• MIT Blackjack cardcounting team member
  • Featured in the blackjack documentary The Hot Shoe, has an instructional blackjack DVD, Beating Blackjack, which explains card counting.
  • The famous MIT cardcounting team was featured in the book Bringing Down the House and the recent hollywood blockbuster movie 21.
• Andy Bloch is currently boycotting the WPT to protest their player release process.
• Second season winner of the Ultimate Poker Challenge.

• 3rd L.A. Poker Classic, WPT Season 1 -$125,460
• 3rd World Poker Finals, WPT Season 1 – $102,350
• 5th Special NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, 2007 – $75,000
• 2nd 2006 WSOP, Event 20, H.O.R.S.E. – $1,029,600
• 7th 2007 WSOP, Event 48, 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) – $19,489
• 2nd NBC Heads-Up Championship, 2008 – $250,000
• 2nd 2008 WSOP, Event 1, World Championship Pot-Limit Hold’em – $488,048
• 7th 2008 WSOP, Event 30, World Championship Limit Hold’em – $81,968

• Thinks of himself as a ‘math guy’ more than a ‘law guy’
• Holds two degrees from MIT
• Rock, Paper, Scissors champion
• Completed Harvard Law School
• Expert in Game Theory for several games of chance.
• Won over $100,000 in a single session playing blackjack.

• $7 Million in Live Tournament Earnings
• 3 WSOP Bracelets
  • WSOP-1999: $3,500 No Limit Hold ’em – $265,475
  • WSOP-2002: $5,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split 8 or Better – $148,520
  • WSOP-2008: $5,000 No Limit 2-7 Draw w/Rebuys – $537,862
• Winner of the 2005 Tournament of Champions-$1 million
• Winner Poker Superstars III – $500,000
• First to win 2 x $1 Million Cashes in 1 Year or less.

$1,000,000

• 9th Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic, WPT Season 7 – $100,880
• 6th World Poker Finals, Foxwoods, WPT Season 7, – $124,048
• 18th WSOPE 2008: Event 4, No-Limit Hold’em Main Event – £36,200
• 30th WSOP 2008: Event 54, Main Event No-Limit Hold’em – $193,000
• 5th WSOP 2008: Event 37, World Championship Omaha Hi-Lo Split – $138,063
• 6th Borgata Poker Open, WPT Season 6- $271,600
• 2nd Bellagio Cup III, WPT Season 6 – $671,320
• 5th Wynn Classic, 2007 Special – $76,824
• 7th WSOP 2006: Event 13, No-Limit Hold’em – $89,010
• 9th WSOP 2005: Event 42, No-Limit Hold’em Championship – $1,000,000
• 3rd UltimateBet.com Aruba Poker Classic, WPT Season 3, 2005 – $250,000
• 2nd WPT Bad Boys of Poker II – heads-up, 2006

• Worked as a poker dealer
• Known as the bad boy of poker, Mike Matusow was nicknamed “The-Mouth” as he has a reputation for talking trash at the poker table and often losses control known as a “Mike Matusow Blow-up” or “Mike-Matusow Meltdown”.
• Matusow paid one third of Scotty Nguyen’s entry into the 1998 World Series of Poker for a satellite event into the $10,000 no limit Texas hold ’em main event. Nguyen went on to win the title and gave $333,333 to Matusow for his stake.
• Mike made a $100,000 bet with Ted Forrest that he could lose weight and get down to 181 pounds by June 3, 2008. Mike won the bet on June 3, when he weighed in at 179 pounds.
• Mike is considered by some to be best Omaha poker player in the world.
• He bought a BMW 645 CI cabriolet for $90,000 from a $750,000 online poker winning session.
• He plays online poker as “dill pickle” at UltimateBet; “mrpokejoke” at PokerStars and “Mike Matusow” at Full Tilt Poker where he is part of Team-FullTiltPoker.

• $7.1 Million in Live Tournament Earnings
• Only Player to Win Four WPT titles
  • PokerStars Caribbean Adventure -$455,780
  • Five Diamond World Poker Classic – $556,480
  • L.A. Poker Classic, WPT Season 1 – $507,190
  • WPT Bad Boys of Poker tournament – $25,000
• Winner of the Aussie Millions Main Event 2007 – $1,500,000
• Hansen is known for his aggressive, erratic and loose play on the poker tables.
• WPT – Walk of Fame player

• 160th WSOP 2008: Event 54, Main Event No-Limit Hold’em – $41,816
• 10th WSOP 2008: Event 8, World Championship Mixed – $45,120
• 2nd WPT World Championship, WPT Season 6 – $1,714,800
• 5th NBC Heads-Up Championship, 2008 – $75,000
• 22ndBellagio Five Diamond World Poker-Classic, WPT Season 6 – $57,815
• 3rd Five-Diamond World-Poker Classic, WPT Season 2 – $276,426
• 3rd Bay 101 Shooting Stars of Poker, WPT-Season 3 -$320,000
• 61st WSOP 2007: Event 55, World Championship No-Limit Texas – $154,194
• 5th WPT Spanish Championship, WPT Season 6- €100,600
• 10th WSOPE 2007: Event 3, No-Limit Texas Hold’em Main Event – £41,630

• Learned English language by listening to Pink Floyd.
• Former backgammon professional.
• High-Stakes Yahtzee Player
• Voted by People Magazine as one of the 50 Sexiest Men in 2004.

• $10.2 Million in Live Tournament Earnings
• 5 WSOP Bracelets
  • 2001: $5,000 Seven-card stud – $201,760
  • 2002: $5,000 Deuce to Seven Draw – $160,200
  • 2005: $1,500 No Limit Hold ’em -$725,405
  • 2006: $1,000 No Limit Hold’em /w Rebuys – $625,830
  • 2007: $5,000 Pot Limit Hold’em – $487,287
• 2005 ESPN/Toyota WSOP Player of the Year
• Won Poker After Dark Mega Match in 2007 – $300,000
• Winner 2007 Inaugural National Poker League Vegas Open Championship Main Event – $325,000
• Winner WSOPC 2007 Caesars Palace Las Vegas – $499,162
• Voted by professional poker players as the Best All Around Player under the age of 35.

• 4th 2008 WSOP, Pot-Limit Hold’em/Omaha, Event 24 -$76,205
• 6th 2006 WSOP, No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball w/re-buys, Event 38 – $58,202
• 4th World Poker Finals, WPT Season 4 – $483,000
• 7th 2005 WSOP: $5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split, Event 32 – $42,110
• 4th 2005 WSOP, $5,000 Pot-Limit Hold’em , Event 20 – $89,865
• 3rd Euro Finals of Poker, WPT Season 1 -$86,392

• Boyfriend of poker pro Melissa Hayden
• Enjoys playing cash games including Pot Limit Omaha and H.O.R.S.E.

• Live Tournament winnings over $2,800,000
• 11 WSOP Cash Finishes
• 7 WPT Cash Finishes
• 1 EPT Title
  • EPT Baden Classic, EPT Season 2 – €218,990

• 3rd Barcelona Open, EPT Season 2 – €117,000
• 9th 2006 WSOP: H.O.R.S.E, Event 20 – $205,920
• 7th 2008 WSOP: World Championship Pot-Limit Hold’em, Event 1 – $124,080
• 29th 2007 WSOPE: No-Limit Texas Hold’em Main Event, Event 3 – £27,150
• 3rd 2007 WSOP: World Championship Pot-Limit Omaha, Event 50 – $311,394
• 52nd WPT World Championship, WPT Season 5 -$46,410
• 13th 2007 Aussie Millions $90,000

The Flying Finn

The Lion

• Antonius is a heads-up specialist
• Is a heath freak works out regularly and takes vitamins every day.
• Self taught Texas Hold’em player.
• Worked as a model before taking up poker.
• Former semi-professional tennis player.