Daniel Negreanu was born on July 26, 1974 in Toronto, Canada. Raised by Romanian parents, Daniel took an interest in betting on sports and beating the local players in the billiards hall during his teenage years, and poker was not far behind. He was able to easily win against fellow students in school and adults in local back room card rooms, and his skills took him to Las Vegas at the age of 21. His first attempt at live poker success failed, but he rebuilt his bankroll in Canadian card rooms and returned to Vegas for the second time, where he has lived ever since.

Greg Raymer was born on June 25, 1964 in Minot, North Dakota.
Raised in a family that moved to Clearwater, Florida and finally to St. Louis, Missouri, Greg concentrated on school studies, which took him to University of Missouri at Rolla, where he majored in chemistry, then to University of Minnesota Law School. He graduated and worked as a patent attorney for a pharmaceutical company. His hobbies included collecting fossils and playing poker.

Joe Cada was born on November 18, 1987 in Shelby Charter Township, Michigan. With a mother who worked as a blackjack dealer at the Motor City Casino and a family that played cards at home, so Joe was familiar with poker before he began playing poker on the Internet. Though his first deposit failed, he soon began building his online bankroll, even playing some live poker events in Canada, where it was legal to play at 19. With his main focus being poker it meant dropping out of Macomb Community College leaving behind his academics to pursue his passion. On the other hand, this was a positive decision as he accumulated hundreds of thousands of dollars in online poker winnings.

Joe Hachem was born on March 11, 1966 in Lebanon. After living a few years of his youth in Lebanon, Joe's family moved to Australia, which he has called home since. He studied to be a chiropractor, which became his career until a blood disorder in his hands made it painful to do his job. His long-time hobby of poker then became more of a full-time endeavor.

Peter Eastgate was born on December 13, 1985 in Dalum, Denmark. With a serious focus on education in his youth, Peter found little time for extracurricular activities but did enjoy poker with friends as a teenager. But he soon found the game a challenge and began studying the intricacies of it and making money from online poker endeavors. By the time he enrolled in the economics program at Aarhus University, he was building a substantial bankroll that eventually led to his withdrawal from school to play poker full time.

Chris Moneymaker was born on November 21,1975 in Atlanta, Georgia. From high school in Knoxville, Tennessee, Chris went on to the University of Tennessee to earn a master's degree in Accounting and used it to earn a living for his family. He worked as a comptroller and earned extra income as a part-time restaurant employee, but utilized any spare time he had playing online poker as a hobby.

Tom McEvoy  was born on November 14th,1944 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Raised in Michigan, Tom finished school and entered a career in accounting, but a lay-off prompted him to more actively pursue his passion for poker, one that had been developing since his elementary school years. The live tournament scene eventually encouraged him to move to Las Vegas, where he began cashing in small local tournaments. His first win was at the 1982 Amarillo Slim Superbowl of Poker, where he won a $1,000 hold'em event for $57,600.

Bill Chen was born in 1970 in Birmingham, Alabama. An analytic thinker from his early years, Bill took his studies to Washington University in St. Louis, where he graduated with a triple major in physics, math, and computer science. He went on to obtain a Ph.D. in mathematics from University of California at Berkeley and has worked in the fields of quantitative analysis and software design.

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