Jon Van Fleet has been playing poker professionally since 2004. He got his start in college making $50 deposits on party poker (and losing them for the most part). With the help of friends, training sites, persistence, and hard work he eventually learned how to treat poker as a business. Since his first start he has made over 1.5 million in profit in tournament poker and is considered one of the most consistent winners in the game. He credits his success to staying a student of the game, constantly adjusting, and having a play versus study ratio of around 75/25. He is co-author of the book Winning Poker Tournaments One Hand at a Time, with tournament specialists Rizen and Pearljammer.  He is a winner on every site in every form of NLHE. Right now he is focusing on reg exploitation, improving his deep-stacked play and learning PLO along with continued tournament poker improvement.

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Alexander Fitzgerald quit his job as a commercial fisherman and security guard when he was 18 in order to become a professional poker player. Since that time he's moved up steadily through the limits.  He's final tabled many of the biggest tournaments online, including the Sunday Million, Sunday 500, The 750k, The Sunday Brawl, The Sunday Second Chance, The Super Tuesday, The 1k Monday, and many others. Alex has also had success in the live arena, where he has cashes on four different continents, including a final table of the massive EPT: San Remo. During that time Alex has also traveled the world and lived in Asia, Europe, Central America, and across America, while writing about his travels in his personal blog.

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Adrian "chardrian" Dresel-Velasquez has a law degree from the University of Wisconsin and worked for a couple of years as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Wisconsin before becoming a professional poker player in 2007.  Chardrian is a midstakes MTT grinder and has been a coach and massive contributor to the PokerPwnage MTT forum since 2008.  His most notable scores are a 3rd in the FTOPs Main Event in 2007 and a WSOP final table in both 2009 and 2010.

Although he used to play various poker games for pennies with his friends in middle school, Gags30 started playing poker online in 2005 with play money games. One day his friend sent him $5 to try a sit and go. He won it and never looked back. After building his game beyond just the fundamentals, he shifted his focus to MTT’s. By 2009 he was playing and beating the highest stakes MTTs available online. Playing professionally for over 3 years now, Gags attributes his success to being able to constantly adjust to new opponents and situations.

David "Ghettofabolous" Randall has a highly successful online track record with wins in the Super Tuesday, the 100r on PokerStars and the 100r on Full Tilt. He splits his time between his girlfriend, poker, and school. His teachings are geared more towards an aggressive playing style but this aggression is very controlled. In addition, he will cover content based on lifestyles and mental aspects of poker as well (putting his psychology minor to use).

Jerry "herschelw" Watterson is a 26-year-old professional poker player from Jacksonville, FL. Jerry started playing semi-professionally in 2005 multi-tabling 2/4 through 5/10 stud cash games. He used these funds to provide income through college. In January '07 Jerry had the greatest success of his poker career by finishing second in the live final of the Moneymaker Millionaire tournament and winning $300,000. This tournament has aired on The Score television in Canada and has also aired in Europe. Over the past two years he has been playing professionally. Herschelw has recently moved his attention to coaching with great success including one of his students winning an FTOPS event for $150k+ and another with 50+ final tables this year.

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During a break from his attempted double major at Caltech (physics and chemistry), Tony discovered Commerce Casino. After putting in a bunch of time playing live limit and no-limit hold'em cash games, Tony began transitioning to online play in 2003 and 2004. Pre-UIGEA, Tony mainly terrorized NLHE SNGs and 6-max NLHE cash games at Party Poker. Post-UIGEA, Tony has established himself as a premier poker theorist through his books, his poker articles, his blog at KillerEV.com, and his podcast (Killer Poker Analysis on Rounder's Radio). He currently lives in Las Vegas with his wife and spends most of his time having fun, consulting, devouring textbooks, theorizing about poker, and terrorizing the tables.

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Nate "nsinger" Singer has been playing for a living since 2005 and has focused on mid-stakes MTTs, particularly PLO and PLO8, for the past few years.  He prides himself on understanding how various types of opponents think and he excels at discussing in-depth poker psychology. He has helped many students overcome problems with tilt and inconsistency and assists them in cultivating a healthy approach to the game.

Jon Eaton started modestly in the poker world back in 2002, playing weekly home games in college and the occasional online MTT.  In 2005, he relocated to Las Vegas and had jobs as a poker tournament reporter as well as dealing at the 2006 World Series of Poker.  In February of 2007, Jon began focusing on poker full time after taking 2nd in a Commerce $1500 prelim for $104k.  Since then, he's taken 2nd in the Full Tilt Monday 1k and 1st in the Stars $1k Super Tuesday (in back to back sessions), as well as a 2nd place finish in the 2010 WSOP $3k No Limit Hold 'Em event for over $340k.  Over the years, he's accumulated just under $600k in live tournament scores, as well as over $2.5 million in online tournament scores."

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ThaSquirrel, a resident of Malta, where he is a top ranked player in The PocketFives Sortable Rankings, began playing poker since his early 20’s. In addition to it being his main source of income, he also uses his winnings to fund his other passion of filmmaking, something he has been doing for a decade. He came to P5s through another instructor, Gags30, who he has been mentored by in the past. Squirrel’s area of expertise is mid-stakes MTT’s, where he has had a number of nice scores including a final table of a MiniFTOPS, an FTOPS, and a win in Pokerstars’ $100 rebuy.

Zack Koerper originally grew up in Maryland and has recently moved to Las Vegas. He started playing poker for fun with friends shortly before starting college. During his short stay in college he used poker as a way of helping pay for expenses. Shortly after dropping out of college and being broke he started over on Bodog from a referral bonus he earned which totalled $8. From that $8 he turned it into over $50k on bodog playing MTTs while winning numerous leaderboard prizes.  Since then, he has never deposited again. After playing poker professionally for 5 years including forays into MTTs, NL cash and FL Cash he now finds himself playing Sit n Goes on PokerStars for a living. He finished ranked #1 in the world in 9-man any stakes in 2010 and hopes to build upon that success in future years.

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