Barry is known as the Robin Hood of Poker because he donates a lot of his poker winnings to charities. He takes from the rich and gives to the needy and this makes him a modern day robin hood which has earned the respect of many poker players and fans around the world. Not many poker player would even consider donating there winnings to charity, but Barry had no intentions not to donate most of his winnings.

Throughout Barry’s career he has won three WSOP bracelets and two WPT titles. He has also won money thirty-seven times in WSOP events plus another five times on the WPT. Barry has also own titles in two special WPT events which were the Father & Sons Tournament and the WPT Poker by the Book. Barry has been just starting to heat up lately as well and finished second place in 2008 for the WSOP Player of the Year finishing just behind the winner Erick Lindgren. He managed to finish second in the standings for best player of the year by winning money in six events including one bracelet in a Razz tournament.

Greenstein has already won almost seven million dollars from live tournament play and even more money at the cash tables. Barry plays on www.PokerStars.com often under the alias “barryg1” and has seen some great success playing online whereas some professional poker players couldn’t keep up with the fast paced action. Barry is one of the nicest people you’re going to meet on the poker circuit and he is known to autograph his book for you if you knock him out of any event. The book that Barry wrote was titled “Ace on the River” and it has helped many professional poker players learn how to play poker better.

Barry now lives in California and has two children plus four step children including one step children who Barry taught to play poker. Joe Sebok is one of Barry’s stepson and he is also a PokerStar now and opened up a strategy website with Barry for other up and coming poker players to use. Barry is always giving back to the game whether it’s through teaching other players how to play the game or through donating his winnings to charity. Barry is sure to continue his winning ways throughout the next few years and I wouldn’t be surprised to see him win the player of the year very soon.

Ivey is one of the most well known Poker Stars in the world and also one of the most accomplished poker players in history. Throughout Phil’s career he has won five WSOP bracelets and made thirty money finishes as well in WSOP events. Phil has also won one WPT title and eight final tables which is more then anyone else in WPT events. Phil also has some experience playing in EPT events and he finishes second place in 2006 at an EPT event in Barcelona. The five WSOP bracelets that Phil has won in his career all came within six years from 2000-2005 which goes to show you how quickly he has amassed his bracelets. Most poker players who have played 10-20 years don’t have any bracelets in the WSOP events, but Phil has already won five and should win more before he retires from poker.

Phil has been spending less time playing in tournaments the past couple years and spends more time playing cash games because the money is much better. Phil lives in Vegas now and can often be found at the Bellagio playing in the $4000/$8000 mixed game with other highrollers. Ivey’s biggest win in his career came in a heads-up cash match against Andy Beal in Vegas where he won a total of sixteen million in only three days of poker. The blinds were $25000/$50000 and limit Texas Holdem was the game that was played.

Ivey is also apart of the Full Tilt Team and often plays in the online poker room when he isn’t playing live cash games. There is usually a game every night or so on Full Tilt and Phil is often apart of the game so you can watch him play against other pros online anytime you want at Full Tilt. Phil has also appeared on lots of television shows over the years including Poker After Dark, High Stakes Poker and many other poker shows. When you have won as much as Phil Ivey has you often get the call to appear on television shows before other players.

Phil is married and currently doesn’t have any children although that might change within a couple years. When Ivey isn’t playing poker he enjoys watching basketball games and his favourite teams are the Lakers and Rockets. Phil also likes playing video games, golfing and betting on prop bets with his friends. There is no doubt that most poker players know exactly who Phil Ivey is and many people want to become the next Ivey. He has had a lot of success in a little amount of time and is now living a great life in Vegas playing poker, golfing and betting with friends.

Mike realized this wasn’t going to make him enough money and he started gambling to try and earn more money with the money he had made. Mike didn’t fair so well at first when he was playing games in the casino and ended up going to Gambling Anonymous courses to treat his problem. After these early struggles for Mike he found work dealing poker in a casino and learned how to play the game from Steve Samaroff. Matusow continued working as a dealer, but started playing the game when he wasn’t working and eventually made the move to start playing professionally and quit dealing.

Once Mike decided to make the move to play professionally he started making a lot of money at the tables and started entering the big tournaments. Over Mike’s career he has won three WSOP bracelets and finished in the money twenty-five times in his career just in WSOP events alone. This makes Mike one of the most consistent player’s to play the WSOP events and he continues to win to this day which makes me wonder how high his numbers will be once he retires.

Matusow won his first WSOP bracelet in 1999 in the $3500 no limit Holdem event. Since then Mike has won two more bracelets including one in 2002 and just recently in 2008. Mike also plays in the WPT events regularly, but he hasn’t been able to win a championship yet in the WPT. Mike does have four final tables and eight money finishes in his career in the WPT though. Over Mike’s career he has made over seven million dollars in live poker events including over three million in WSOP poker events alone.

Matusow has also been one of the professional poker players that love to play online poker at PokerStars.com and Full Tilt Poker. Mike can often be found playing online poker everyday. He has had streaks where he has won a lot of money and he has had streaks where he has lost a lot of money. Mike does gain a lot of playing experience from playing so much online poker though and has helped him develop one of the best playing styles that is seen today.

Mike Matusow is often called by his nickname “The Mouth” because he is awfully mouthy when he is playing poker and speaks his mind. Mike never backs down from a battle at the poker table and is often noted as being a little to aggressive sometimes when he is playing. You’ll either love or hate Mike, but either way you can’t deny that he is one of the best and most consistent poker players of all time.