Also known as Nick the Greek, Dandolos was born in 1883 and died in 1966. He was a Greek poker player and a professional high roller and gambler. The estimates are that Dandolos won and lost over the course of his entire life over $500 million. He joined the Poker Hall of Fame as a charter inductee in 1979.
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Johnny Moss
May 5, 2010 | 
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Johnny Moss was a professional player of poker which lived between May 14, 1907 and December 16th, 1995. His nickname was “The Grand Old Man of Poker†and he won a total of 9 WSOP bracelets, with 25 money finishes under his belt. He was a main event winner three times, in 1970, 1971 and 1974.
His last participation to a WSOP event was in 1995. He is currently placed 4th in the ranking of players with the highest number of WSOP bracelets. His total winnings in the tournaments of WSOP was $824,922 over the course of his entire career.
In 1979, Moss was one of the charter inductees into the Poker Hall of Fame.
Phil Hellmuth
April 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
Born in 1964, on July 16th, Phil Hellmuth is a professional poker player from the United States. He currently holds the number one spot for the number of WSOP bracelets won, with a total of 11. He is also one of the Main Event winners, thanks to his victory from 1989, when he was just 24 years old. He is also considered a temperamental player, hence the nickname “The Poker Bratâ€. He currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
Besides his 11 bracelets, he also has 75 money finishes at the WSOP, and 11 money finishes at the World Poker Tour, with 3 final tables. All the bracelets won by Phil Hellmuth at WSOP come from playing Texas Hold’em.
He has a number of poker instructional videos released, poker books and plenty of articles in the Cardplayer magazine. A few of the books written by him are Poker Brat, The Greatest Hands ever Player and Play Poker like the Pros.
Johnny Chan
April 23, 2010 | 0 Comments
Johnny Chan is a poker player that was born in China in 1957 and he currently lives in Las Vegas, as a professional poker player. He is nicknamed Orient Express and he has 10 WSOP bracelets, with 42 money finishes. He has won it two times, in 1987 and 1988. He also has 4 money finishes at the World Poker Tour.
He was the first to get 10 titles from WSOP in 2005, thanks to a Texas Hold’em event he won. Right now he is on the second place together with Doyle Brunson, since Phil Hellmuth has 11 bracelets.
Since 2002, Johnny Chan has joined the Poker Hall of Fame.