Who was the host of the show which features a Canadian professional poker player who has won six World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and two World Poker Tour (WPT) championship titles?
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Million Dollar Challenge (poker) Million Dollar Challenge (also referred to as the PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge and PokerStars.net Million Dollar Challenge) is the most watched poker show in television history. It is sponsored by PokerStars. The show, which airs on the Fox Broadcasting Company, debuted on October 11, 2009. The show is hosted by Chris Rose and features Daniel Negreanu. The first season included five episodes following the FOX network Sunday National Football League coverage. The finale aired on December 27, 2009. The eight-episode season 2 premiered on September 19, 2010 and is scheduled to conclude on December 12.
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Daniel Negreanu Daniel Negreanu ( ; born July 26, 1974) is a Canadian professional poker player who has won six World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and two World Poker Tour (WPT) championship titles. The independent poker ranking service Global Poker Index (GPI) recognised Negreanu as the best poker player of the decade in 2014.
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1987 World Series of Poker The 1987 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe.
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Don Holt Don Holt is an American poker player. He has won a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet and has cashed in various events at the WSOP including the Main Event.
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Mitch Schock Mitch Schock is an American professional poker player. He won his first World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2011 World Series of Poker where he made three final tables and has had at least five in the money finishes in each of the last three World Series of Poker (WSOP). Upon winning his first bracelet after several years of trying, he was quoted in "The Bismarck Tribune" as comparing poker with farming saying "some years are better than others."
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Crown Australian Poker Championship The Australian Poker Championship, commonly known as Aussie Millions, is a series of poker tournaments held at the Crown Casino, in Melbourne, Australia. The Main Event of the series is the Southern Hemisphere's richest poker tournament with a prize pool in excess of 7 million.
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Tour Championship of Canada The Tour Championship of Canada is an annual golf tournament played on PGA Tour Canada (historically known as the Canadian Tour). It is generally one of the last tournaments played in the season, and in 2015 had a purse of C$200,000.
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Tom Schneider Tom Schneider (born December 24, 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a professional poker player from Phoenix, Arizona. Schneider is a certified public accountant and former president of a public golf company and chief financial officer for three Arizona companies before beginning his poker career in 2002. As of 2017, he is Chief Financial Officer of Loudmouth Golf . He wears their sport coats on Poker Night in America TV shows. He was also the Controller for Ping Golf. He is the author of the book "Oops! I Won Too Much Money: Winning Wisdom from the Boardroom to the Poker Table" which provides lessons for both poker and business. Tom was the co-host of the popular poker podcast, Beyond The Table, along with Karridy Askenasy and Dan Michalski, creator and head blogger at Pokerati, where Tom was a contributing columnist.
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Ylon Schwartz Ylon Schwartz ( ; born 1970) is a chess master and professional poker player from Brooklyn, New York, and a fourth-place finisher in the $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em Main Event of the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP), played on November 9, 2008. Prior to the Main Event, Schwartz had 11 career WSOP cashes. He is also a World Series of Poker bracelet winner. He used to play poker professionally online under the screen name "TenthPlanet".
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Frankie O'Dell Frankie O'Dell is an American professional poker player residing in Long Beach, California. He has won two World Series of Poker bracelets in Omaha Hi/Lo Split. His first win came in the 2003 World Series of Poker in the $1,500 event and his second in the $2,000 event in 2007. In 2007, he eliminated the final table in little over three hours while wearing a Denver Broncos Jersey. Frankie is known to have been eliminated "on the bubble" in the main event of the WSOP and it made the ESPN broadcast.
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2013 World Series of Poker Europe The seventh World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) took place from October 11, 2013 to October 25, 2013, at Casino Barriere in Enghien-les-Bains, France. There were eight bracelet events.
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2008 World Series of Poker The 2008 World Series of Poker was the 39th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP). Held in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, the series began on May 30, 2008, and featured 55 poker championships in several variants. All events but the $10,000 World Championship No Limit Texas hold 'em Main Event, the most prestigious of the WSOP events, ended by July 15. As has been the WSOP custom since 1976, each of the event winners received a championship bracelet in addition to that event's prize money, which (after the casino's rake) ranged from $87,929 to $9,119,517.
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John Phan Bon "John" Phan (born October 10, 1974 in Da Nang, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player based in Stockton, California who is a two time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and is a winner and four time final tablist of World Poker Tour Championships.
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Raymond Rougeau Raymond Rougeau (born February 18, 1955) is a Canadian television presenter,
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Full Tilt Poker Championship at Red Rock Full Tilt Poker Championship at Red Rock (also FullTiltPoker.Net Championship at Red Rock) was a seven-week televised shootout poker tournament played at the Red Rock Resort Spa and Casino in Summerlin near Las Vegas, Nevada. The tournament was sponsored by online poker website Full Tilt Poker and aired by Fox Sports Net. In each of the first six episodes, six professional poker player affiliated with Full Tilt Poker played a single-table freezeout tournament. The winner of each freezeout won US$25,000 and advanced to the seven-handed final table. The seventh seat at the final table was filled by Stefan Rehn, an Internet qualifier. Tournaments featured a speed poker format, with players having 30 seconds to act on their hands with one 60-second time extension per match.
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Bob Izumi Bob Izumi (born May 2, 1958) is a Canadian professional angler, and the host of "Bob Izumi's Real Fishing Show". He is most known for his success in bass fishing, and was awarded angler of the year in 2004.
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Vasilis Lazarou Vasilis Lazarou is a Greek professional poker player who has won two bracelets at the World Series of Poker. He is mainly a seven card stud player, but he has cashed in various other poker tournament games as well.
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1972 World Series of Poker The 1972 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held during early May 1972 at the Binion's Horseshoe in Las Vegas, Nevada. It was the third annual installment of the World Series of Poker, and also the second one to feature the freezeout structure. In comparison with the previous year's series, the number of events was cut back and the buy-ins were raised, resulting in one preliminary event and the Main Event both having the same buy-in of $10,000 (equals about $54,000 in 2011 U.S. dollars). The preliminary event featured five-card stud poker and was won by Bill Boyd, the same man who won the 1971 five-card stud preliminary event. The previous years' double champion Johnny Moss was defeated early in the main event and Thomas "Amarillo Slim" Preston went on to win the tournament after a series of deals.
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Ryan Hughes (poker player) Ryan Hughes (born 1981) is a poker player who won a World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2007 World Series of Poker in the $2,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better event and the 2008 World Series of Poker $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better event. In February 2007, Hughes won the Professional Poker Tour event at the L.A. Poker Classic.
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Joe Hachem Joseph Hachem (Arabic: جوزف هاشم‎ ‎ ; ; born 11 March 1966) is a Lebanese Australian professional poker player known for winning the Main Event of the 2005 World Series of Poker. He was the first Australian to win the Main Event, which earned him $7.5 million, then a record for all-time biggest tournament prize.
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Phil Hellmuth Phillip Jerome Hellmuth Jr. (born July 16, 1964) is an American professional poker player who has won a record fourteen World Series of Poker bracelets. He is the winner of the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the Main Event of the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE), and he is a 2007 inductee of the WSOP's Poker Hall of Fame. Hellmuth is also known for his temperamental "poker brat" personality.
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1998 World Series of Poker The 1998 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe.