Full Tilt Poker Pros – Learn Play Chat with the Pros
Full Tilt Poker has more professional poker players than any other online poker site. In fact, the slogan Full Tilt Poker is most famous for is "Learn, Chat and Play with the Pros". At Full Tilt Poker it is easy to spot a pro because the tables they are at will use red font in the lobby, as will their name when you highlight the lobby to see who is seated.
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Perhaps you're looking to play with a pro, or maybe you just want to watch. It is not uncommon to see some of the best players in the world such as Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan (a.k.a. Durrrr) battling it out on the site at the highest stakes cash games available on the net. Look for them at the $2,000/$4,000 table of various games.
With hundreds of pros it is impossible for us to cover them all, so here are quick bios on five pros we selected to write about.
Full Tilt Poker Pro’s
- A look at the biography of Phil Ivey, considered to be the best all round poker player in the industry at the present time.
- A player that carries a world wide reputation and a face known by many on the live poker tournament scene. Also known for his commentary that he provides for FullTiltPoker
- A big name player who is a force to be messed with when it comes to both live and online poker. Hansen carries a huge array of success into each game that he enters.
- Known as ‘Jesus’ the long haired professional poker player is another of the Full Tilt professionals that carries a huge following of fans, we look at just who is Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson.
- A recent addition to the Full Tilt Poker professional roster and a player who has been within the industry spotlight over recent months. We look at Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan and find out what he’s really about.
Full List of Full Tilt Poker Pros
Full Tilt Poker has several different levels to their sponsorship program. The first level is Team Full Tilt, these are players with long term contracts who travel the world playing in the highest stake poker games available while endorsing the Full Tilt brand. This team has 14 members which are as follows:
Team Full Tilt Members: Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, John Juanda, Jennifer Harman, Phil Gordon, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Andy Bloch, Mike Matusow, Gus Hansen, Allen Cunningham, Patrik Antonius and Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan.
Full Tilt Poker has a strategic relationship with two other poker companies which combined to bring an additional 14 pros to the table. Details are included below.
HendonMob: Barny Boatman, Ross Boatman, Joe Beevers and Ram Vaswani.
Team Card Runners: Isaac Baron, David Benefield, Taylor Caby, Ryan Daut, Brian Hastings, Eric Liu, Mike McDonald, Haseeb Qureshi, Mike Schneider and Andrew Wiggins.
The largest category called simply Full Tilt Pros, often called "Red Pros" by 2+2 and other forum members. These players have various different Full Tilt contracts, most of them involve cash bonuses for their performances in live events plus some incentives to play online at Full Tilt. There are 139 Full Tilt Red Pros which we list below.
Full Tilt Pros (Red Pros): Brandon Adams, James Akenhead, Billy ‘The Croc’ Argyros, Josh Arieh, Amanda ‘Mandy B’ Baker, Praz Bansi, Joao Barbosa, Aaron Bartley, Steven Begleiter, David Benyamine, Thomas Bihl, Sascha Biorac, Andy Black, Farzad Bonyadi, Brad Booth, Alan Boston, David Bradley, Steve Brecher, Richard Brodie, Erik Cajelais, John Cernuto, Lynette Chan, David Chiu, Scott Clements, Artie Cobb, David Colclough, Diego Cordovez, John D’Agostino, Roland de Wolfe, Ryan Dreyer, Bill Edler, Trond Eidsvig, Eli Elezra, Nikolay Evdakov, Andrew Feldman, Peter ‘Nordberg’ Feldman, Scott Fischman, Perry Friedman, Eric Froehlich, Rafe Furst, Julian Gardner, Bill Gazes, Kristy Gazes, Markus Golser, Michael Gracz, David Grey, Svetlana Gromenkova, Jared ‘TheWacoKidd’ Hamby, Matt Hawrilenko, Rob Hollink, Soraya Homam, Alessio Isaia, Niki ‘KaiBuxxe’ Jedlicka, Chip Jett, Karina Jett, Berry Johnston, Denes Kalo, Marc Karam, Jonathan Karamalikis, Kelly Kim, Martin Kläser, Christiane Klecz, Erich Kollmann, Søren Kongsgaard, Christian Kruel, Markus Lehmann, Alfredo ‘Toto’ Leonidas, Andrew ‘LuckyChewy’ Lichtenberger, Marco Liesy, Hal Lubarsky, Vitaly Lunkin, Jeff Madsen, Mihai Manole, Craig Marquis, Greg Mascio, Daniele Mazzia, Dag Mikkelsen, Scott Montgomery, Jordan ‘iMsoLucky0′ Morgan, Carlos ‘The Matador’ Mortensen, Greg Mueller, Adam Noone, Annette ‘Annette_15′ Obrestad, Raul Oliveira, David Oppenheim, Raul Paez, Stuart Paterson, Pascal Perrault, David Pham, John Phan, Caio Pimenta, Leandro ‘Brasa’ Pimentel, Vivek Rajkumar, Stefan Rapp, Claudio Rinaldi, Ben Roberts, Roberto Romanello, Esther Rossi, Damian Salas, Ali Sarkeshik, Eddy Scharf, Erica Schoenberg, Adam Schoenfeld, Nick Schulman, Alexander Schwab, Huckleberry Seed, Keith Sexton, Matt Sexton, Paul Sexton, Beth Shak, Bruno Stefanelli, Johan Storakers, David Singer, Gavin Smith, Justin ‘Boosted J’ Smith, Cole South, Roland Specht, Sigi Stockinger, Frank Thompson, Kenny Tran, Marco Traniello, Michael Tureniec, Jon ‘PearlJammed’ Turner, José Luis Velador, Jani Vilmunen, Cyndy Violette, Jens Voertmann, Hans Martin Vogl, Mark Vos, Lee Watkinson, Melanie Weisner, Robert Williamson III, Roy ‘The Oracle’ Winston, Paul Wolfe, Christoph Wolters, Steve Wong, Steve Yea, Steve Zolotow and Flavio Ferrari Zumbini.
Last but not least the final categories of players who endorse Full Tilt are called "Friend of Full Tilt". Players in this category range from celebrities such as MMA fighter Matt Hughes, commentators such as Lacey Jones, and other recreational players. All Friends of Full Tilt Poker are in some way or another associated with poker even if it's as a part time player and poker enthusiast. Member of this category are covered below.
Friends of Full Tilt Poker: Mario Adinolfi, Johan Brolenius, Bruce Buffer, Eunjong Byun, Yongsuk Chang, Don Cheadle, Michael Craig, Jay Greenspan, Niklas Heinecker, Gabriela Hill, Matt Hughes, Gary Jones, Lacey Jones, Stephan Kalhamer, Paul Khoury, Brian Koppelman, Jim McManus, Maxi Müller, Rich Muny, Ali Nejad, Mekhi Phifer, Joseph Reitman, Marco Sander, Somyung Sim, Jeremiah Smith, Mike Swick, Johnathan ‘Fatal1ty’ Wendel, Jerry Yang (2007 WSOP Champion) and Yueqi ‘Rich’ Zhu.
To total this all up, there are 196 players branding the Full Tilt Poker logo. If you'd like to watch them play, or even grab a seat at their table, you can do so by downloading the software from fulltiltpoker.
