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.

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.

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.

Randy "nanonoko" Lew is a member of Team PokerStars Online.

The competitive spirit was strong in Randy from the time he was a young teenager, as video games captured his attention at an early age. His preferred video game was "Marvel vs. Capcom 2", and by the time he entered college at the University of California Davis as a managerial economics major, he was also spending time traveling the national video game circuit as a competitor. It was there that he discovered that poker offered the same type of challenge.

Spacegravy Grayson "Spacegravy" Physioc is a member of Team PokerStars Online.