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  Bill Smith was a player from Dallas. He was an excellent gambler and managed to win the main 1985 after beating TJ Cloutier with a pair of threes. Still, if he hadn’t drunk so much he would have had much more titles. “Bill was the tightest player you'd ever played in your life when he was sober, recalled Cloutier later. “And when he was halfway drunk, he was the best player I'd ever played with.” No one could read opponents’ hands better than half-drunk Smith. “But when he got past that halfway mark, he was the worst player I'd ever played with.”

  Mansour Matloubi was the first European to win at the WSOP. In 1990 before the final battle he played against Hans 'Tuna' Lund. Mansour was sitting with 10d 10c. A pocket pair is a very good hand. Before the flop. His opponent was sitting with ac 9d. Mansour raised to 75,000. Lund called.

  Berry Johnston was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2003. It’s believed that it was his third dream. The other two were as follows.

  Jack Keller was an excellent player at all poker forms. He was remarkable for his love to take risks. When Seven-Card Stud was popular Jack was know as on of the strongest stud players. And the answer to the question: “Is Jack a good lowball player?” was always the same: “Murderous”.

  Jack Strauss’ poker career was rather short. He began to play at the WSOP in the early 70s and in 1988 he died of a heart attack. But even his death was a part of a poker game. This heart attack happened during a high stackes game.

  Although known widely for childlike temper tantrums that seem unfit for a guy with his towering presence, Madison, Wisconsin native Phil Hellmuth has nothing to pitch a fit about right now. He spent July 5, 2007 basking in the glory of his phenomenal poker success as he was inducted into the coveted Poker Hall of Fame at the Rio Las Vegas.

"The rest of us are fading out, and he's just coming in". Johnny Chan was born in Canton, China. At the age of nine his family moved to the United States and settled in Houston. As you guess, his father was Chinese and he couldn’t invent anything better than running Chinese restaurant. Very originally… Meanwhile, Johnny began to attend school…though he even didn’t speak English: "When I came to this country I spoke zero English. In the whole school there was only one other Asian. The other kids tell you something, you don't know what they're talking about.

  His name – one of the most famous in poker world. Though he’s more known for his books than for his game. He had won at the WSOP only once, but wrote 11 books about how to do it!