Poker live news takes poker player interviews to the whole new level. On This page you will find an overview of all the interviews we've conducted With well known poker experts and poker players. We will initially focus on Poker game developers, and also hope to add some interviews with famous Poker players in the future. Over the coming weeks, pokerlivenews will be featuring profiles of some of best online poker tournament winners. You will find profiles of the best pokerplayers out there in the online domain. These include the whos who of the online poker world including Phil Ivey , Doyle Brunson, Chip Reese, Chau Giang, Barry Greenstein, Johnny Chan, Bobby Baldwin, and Lyle Berman.

Poker Pro Profiles

Howard Lederer
Howard Henry Lederer is an American professional poker player and brother of poker professional Annie Duke, and author and poet Katy Lederer. Lederer is known as "the Poker Professor" because of his demeanor, analytical style and long history of wins. He has made an instructional poker video called Secrets of No Limit Hold'em and he runs the Howard Lederer Poker Fantasy Camp. He also co-hosts Poker Superstars and Learn from the Pros for the Fox Broadcasting Company

Phil Hellmuth
Phillip Jerome Hellmuth, Jr. is best known for holding a record 11 World Series of Poker bracelets, for winning the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker and for his temperamental, "poker brat" personality. He is also a member of the Poker Hall of Fame.

Daniel Negreanu

Daniel Negreanu is a Canadian professional poker player of Romanian descent with four World Series of Poker bracelets and two World Poker Tour Championship titles. He is ranked second in the all-time career earnings list behind Phil Ivey and is also currently the star of poker game show Million Dollar Challenge.

Doyle Brunson
Brunson is the first player to earn $1 million in poker tournaments and has won ten World Series of Poker bracelets throughout his career, tied with Johnny Chan for second all-time, one behind Phil Hellmuth's eleven. He is also one of only four players to have won the Main Event at the World Series of Poker multiple times, which he did in 1976 and 1977. He is also one of only two players, along with Bill Boyd, to have won bracelets at the WSOP in four consecutive years. In addition, he is the first of five players to win both the WSOP Main Event and a World Poker Tour title.

Poker Celebrity Profiles

The number of Hollywood celebrities who have taken up the game has mirrored the rise of poker in interest. The same holds for television as well With shows like Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown, Celebrity Poker Club, Ultimate Poker Showdown, and World Poker Tour. In the UK it started with Late Night Poker on Channel 4. Since then the rapid growth in coverage of poker on television and the internet has been phenomenal. Our list of biographies of celebrities who play poker is gradually expanding

Matt Damon

Damon has starred in commercially successful films such as Saving Private Ryan (1998), the Ocean's trilogy, and the Bourne series, while also gaining critical acclaim for his performances in dramas such as Syriana (2005), The Good Shepherd (2006), and The Departed (2006). He garnered a Golden Globe nomination for portraying the title character in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and was nominated for an Academy Award as a supporting actor in Invictus (2009). His fame onscreen is coupled with his fame off screen on the poker table. Damon, who appeared in Rounders, has also played in major Poker tournaments and has been trained by poker star, Phil Hellmuth.

Steve Davis

Steve Davis is an English professional snooker player. He has won more professional titles in the sport than any other player, including six World Championships during the 1980s, when he was the world number one for seven years and reached eight world finals, becoming the sport's first millionaire. Steve Davis in the world of poker is also known as "The Nugget".

Tobey Maguire

Tobey Maguire is often referred to by even the biggest poker pros as a "cash game specialist". If you are playing the World Series of Poker main event and Maguire gets seated at your table, watch out; you just might end up with no chips. Tobey Maguire is one of the very few poker celebs that indeed can play.