Gustav Hansen is a Danish professional poker player from Copenhagen, Denmark who has lived in Monaco since 2003. In his poker career, Hansen has won three World Poker Tour open titles, one WSOP bracelet and the 2007 Aussie Millions main event, and was the season one winner of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament. Before turning to playing poker professionally in 1997, Hansen was already a world class backgammon player and a youth tennis champion.
Johnson "John" Juanda is an Indonesian professional poker player of Chinese descent based in Tokyo, Japan. He has won five World Series of Poker bracelets.
Andrew Black is a poker player from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who presently resides in Dublin.
Roland De Wolfe is an English professional poker player and a former writer for the poker magazine Inside Edge.
Kirill Gerasimov is a Russian professional poker player.
Ram "Crazy Horse" Vaswani a former professional poker player and the youngest member of The Hendon Mob, a group of professional poker players. He resides in Finchley with his wife Jackie and daughter Hollie.
Noah Boeken is a Dutch professional poker and Magic: The Gathering player.
"Burnley" John Falconer is a British professional poker player. His poker career peaked in 2005 with an Irish Open title and a number of cash finishes.
Bertrand Grospellier, also known as ElkY, is a French poker player and former StarCraft: Brood War and Warcraft III esports player. He has won a World Poker Tour (WPT), a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet and a European Poker Tour (EPT) title, giving him the Triple Crown. He is a partypoker Pro and he currently resides in Prague, Czech Republic. ElkY is ranked #77 on the Global Poker Index. In November 2015 ElkY returned to the esports scene by joining Team Liquid as a Hearthstone player.
Johnny Lodden is a Norwegian professional poker player prominently known for his online success. He frequently played under the alias "bad_ip" on Prima network online high-stakes games, and for a brief time he was considered the biggest winner in the largest online cash games in the world. Lodden has also been known to occasionally play on PokerStars under the alias "Lars-Magne". In August 2007 Lodden gave a brief interview with the Danish poker journal Acemag, where he admitted to having lost his whole bankroll and had to retire his old bad_ip account and start from scratch with a stake from a friend.
Isaac Baron an American professional poker player from Menlo Park, California. He was the winner of the first Card Player Magazine Online Poker Player of the Year Award in 2007.
Dario Minieri is an Italian professional poker player from Rome, Italy who won a bracelet at the 2008 World Series of Poker at the age of 23, is a member of team PokerStars, is an online poker player who was the first person to collect enough Frequent Player Points to buy an automobile with them, and is a three-time European Poker Tour final tablist.
William Thorson is a Swedish professional poker player from Varberg, Sweden and a three time European Poker Tour (EPT) final table participant who, in the 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, finished in 13th place.
Dario Alioto is a professional poker player from Palermo, Italy. Alioto's first major success in poker came at the European Poker Tour 2005 Barcellona main event, where he finished in 7th place and earned €52,000. Right after this score, he started grinding PLO cash games that became his best poker game, rapidly becoming one of the best Italian professional players. Later on in his career, he won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in the £5,000 Pot Limit Omaha event at the 2007 World Series of Poker Europe. Alioto earned £234,390 for his finish. He has also had success at the 2008 World Series of Poker, where he has earned over $230,000 from four cashes. A well-respected cash game player online and live, he played most of the many televised Italian high-stakes cash games in the last few years. He now plays a wide variety of games and is now considered one of the best all-around players in Europe.
Sebastian Ruthenberg is a German professional poker player who is both a World Series of Poker bracelet and a European Poker Tour title winner.
Michael Martin is an American professional poker player from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania who was the winner at the European Poker Tour (EPT) £5,200 EPT London Main Event earning £1,000,000.
Jason Mercier is an American professional poker player from Hollywood, Florida. He has won six World Series of Poker bracelets and one European Poker Tour title. Mercier is a member of Team PokerStars Pro and was named the Bluff Magazine Player of the Year for 2009. He was WSOP player of the year in 2016.
Dag Palovič is a Slovak writer, TV presenter and former professional poker player known for being a member of PokerStars Team Pro between 2011 and 2013 due to achieving relative success on the international scene. His results include making two European Poker Tour (EPT) final tables in 2007, 37th place finish at the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event and winning French Heads-Up Championship in 2010. Palovič amassed close to $1,000,000 during his poker career. He is also an author of the first Slovak book on poker titled "Ako sa stať poker pro" co-authored by 1983 World Series of Poker champion Tom McEvoy and after his poker career Palovič shifted to writing, first publishing a crime novel Two-dollar Crimson Bill 2013 before moving to self-help genre with the 2018 publication of the book Eye-Opener.
Andrew Lichtenberger is an American poker player from East Northport, New York. He is also known by his online alias LuckyChewy. He is the champion of the 2010 World Series of Poker Circuit event in Caesars Palace, Las Vegas in April 2010. Lichtenberger has made five World Series of Poker final tables and won a WSOP bracelet in 2016.
Stephen James Chidwick is an English professional poker player from Deal, Kent. Chidwick led the Global Poker Index (GPI) from 18 April to 9 October 2018.
