Michael DeMichele is a well-known professional player in the poker arena. He belongs to the town of East Haven in Connecticut State. DeMichele was an excellent live player and has adequate experience playing poker. He began playing poker right from the tender age of eighteen.  DeMichele’s maiden $10K contest was at the age of twenty one. Initially at the Turning Stone casino, DeMichele played the 1/2nl event, then the 20/40 limit holdem event, and then shifted to the realm of poker. At the Foxwoods, he began playing high stake live cash contests

He started with eight tabling 3/6 limit holdem and finally developed into the 15/30 & 30/60 making a decent sized bankroll. DeMichele also learned to play the Stud8b and the Omaha8b. Once he learnt the variants of poker, the Stud 8b and Omaha8b became his most preferred game. He went on to advance into the 75/150 OE games, as he found the 10/25nl as very small games, when he desired to play. His first major poker triumph was in the United States Poker Championship Main Event, held in 2006. He secured the third slot gaining $215,194. From then onwards he has cashed in a few WSOP (World Series of Poker) contests and he had big triumphs in the contests he had hard cashed in.

The two events he cashed in the WSOP were neither in the NL Holdem. However what will astonish you is DeMichele’s take on the online poker.

DeMichele’s biggest conclusion was in the year 2008, at the fifty thousand dollar H.O.R.S.E world championship, where he completed runner-up to Scotty Nguyen making $1,243,200.  In this event he faced a poker arena of 147 elite participants, many of them having affluent knowledge in the high stakes games such as Phil Ivey., Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Howard Lederer, and David Benyamine.

Subsequent to four demanding play days, DeMichele made his way to the final table next to the victors of the WSOP bracelets like Erick Lindgren, Lyle Berman, Barry Greenstein, Huck Seed and Scotty Nguyen. Once defeating Lyle Berman on the razz hand, Michele acquired 7.1 million chip lead only to give up to Scotty Nguyen in the course of the four-handed contest.

In the Previous $10,000 World Championship Mixed Event, DeMichele managed to get the fourth slot and made $139,872.

AS on up to the year 2009, the whole live tournament earnings surpassed $1,700,000. DeMichele’s cashes, report for R $1,426,770 of the prize money. He secured the 6697^th slot in the BLUFF/ESPN Power rank. DeMichele also got the 2185^th place in the player of the year rank, held in 2011.

DeMichele reads several books to know the knick knack of Poker; he skillfully makes horse variations and has emerged as one of the talented player in the Poker arena. DeMichele aspires to be a steady player in 400/800BOT. He is unique class ofpoker personality – very forbidden, modest and full-grown for his youthful age.  Michele considers poker as his whole life; he is not interested in travelling or any other hobbies. Even during his leisurely activities he considers poker as his favorite past time.

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Darrell Dicken is a well known poker players, popularly known as “gigabet”, the name he uses while playing poker online. He was born in Waterloo and shifted to the casino city, Vegas, in pursuit of his poker playing ambitions.

Darrell started playing poker online and soon realized that he could excel in the game substantially. He started participating in a lot of tournaments right from the beginning of his poker career. His love for poker dates back to a long time and thus he is continuously trying to better his own records and thus sharpen his poker playing skills. There is no doubt that he has a lot of accomplishments to his name and he has managed to pocket significant money from this game.

Darrell is a fierce opponent on the table and evokes elements of fear and surprise following his ability to change the game very quickly. He believes in aggressive mode of playing and thus can be very ruthless on the table. When he is playing he has a killer instinct and a lot of people believe that it is his unorthodox playing method that makes him such a deadly catch.

Darrell has managed to cash in a lot of different events but perhaps his all time highest cash is the one in WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic 15000 dollar main event. It is a prestigious event and he managed to come fifth and won 241,495 dollars which is absolutely huge amount. He also earned from the no limit hold ‘em World Series of Poker circuit championship. To give you an idea he pocketed 372,780 dollars in this event.

There are a lot of other main tournaments as well where in he has managed to show his clinical skills and prowess and thus bettered his records. There is no doubt about the fact that he is an extremely successful poker player who knows the tricks of the game and thus manages to excel in it as well.

Poker is not an extremely easy game to play as people tend to put a lot at stake. However, Darrell Dicken is more than aware of the rules and the right ways to play. He has mastered the skills and enjoys every minute of his play.

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Maxim Lykov, born in Russia, had a competitive streak running in him since his childhood. He completed his education in his home country and in Moscow University studied engineering. Maxim played poker with friends during his college days. He mastered his poker skills by playing often on internet and eventually in the year 2005 he chose to play poker over engineering.

Maxim’s career in poker began with two $40 deposits into his poker accounts. He could take those small investments and casual play and eventually six figures. By the end of 2006, he was doing very well in cash games and tournaments and making a substantial living from his online career in poker.

No sooner did 2009 arrive, than Lykov decided to begin playing the live poker tournament circuit. Less than three weeks later, he attended the ‘Read Sea poker Cup’ series on Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt and got himself placed 16^th in €1, 1000 buy-in NLHE Main Event. But in the same Red Sea Poker Cup, two days later, he played the €3,000 buy-in NLHE VIP event and won it, which brought him his first poker title and €50,000 cash.

Feeling elated about his ability to play live poker with flair, Lykov went ahead to Las Vegas, Nevada in the summer of 2009 to play World Series of Poker events, and it was then and there where he realized that he had made it to the final table of the $5,000 no-limit hold’em shootout tournament, ultimately finishing in third place for $145,062. A broader audience had started taking notice of the young Russian Pro.

He finished 2009 with a ninth place in an EPT Prague side event, and then began 2010 with a trip to the Bahamas for the PokerStars, Caribbean Adventure. He, then stored another big victory when he won the $1,000 buy-in NLHE event for a clean $100,000. And then in March, he made another astonishing win at an EPT event in Hinterglemm, Austria at the Snowfest tournament when he finished 13^th in the €3,500 buy-in Main Event for €15,800.

This young pro poker player has been noted in many interviews that he plans to be the topmost and the best poker to ever hail from Russia and he is right on the track to accomplishing that goal, as he is already in the top ten of all Russian players on the live circuit. Maxim Lykov has also been recognized by the PokerStars and very recently has become of the latest addition to Team PokerStars Pro, which is now allowing him to represent the site around the world and online at the tables, playing underneath his novel, actual and complete name.

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