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RacksOnRacks22 | QTip | Xorc1st | DiscGolf01 | reasons14 | 00cayman00| ExtremHard
We're very pleased to announce our line-up of Pros. These guys are the goods when it comes to poker and they're identifiable at the tables by their shiny gold avatars.
If you see one of them at the tables give them a "hoy".
Steve Scales AKA RacksOnRacks22
Steve Scales AKA ‘RacksOnRacks22’ is a recent college graduate with a BA in Criminal Justice and Juv. Justice. Studying the game throughout college, Steve played online as his sole income throughout his college years.
Upon graduation Steve entered into the live tournament arena where he has had tremendous success in 2012 traveling the circuit. Steve won Event #13 at the Borgata Winter Open this year and followed it up with Back-to-Back Final Tables at WSOPc Caesars in Atlantic City.
Steve plays MTTs under the handle RacksOnRacks22 at Black Chip Poker and Turb0Licious elsewhere, and has recently launched his website FlopTurnBink where he plans to offer MTT coaching along with his live circuit blog.
QTip is an accomplished professional poker player and coach who has been playing professionally since 2004.
Since then he's clocked up over three million hands and generated the sole income for a family of five.
He's written a couple of books, namely 'Poker Math That Matters' and his new one, 'Hole Card Confessions'.
In early 2009, he also began personal coaching and producing poker training videos. If you'd like to train with QTip check out his website www.qtippoker.com or go to www.dragthebar.com.
Owen regularly plays at BlackChip tables, alias QTipDTB, and is also known to offer a free webinar or two. Keep an eye out for him.
Born and raised in New York, Xorc1st is a former competitive video game player who made the transition to poker at the age of 18 after watching it on ESPN.
He's currently attending college in New York majoring in Computer Networking & Security, and when he's not at college he's playing poker working on his cash and tournament games, adding to the millions of hands he's already played and of course building his bankroll.
He's appeared in Bluff Magazine, on Poker2Night (Aired on GSN) and he still enjoys playing Call of Duty on Xbox360.
If you'd like some coaching with Xorc1st check out his website www.xorc1stpoker.com and get in touch.
John Luisana, alias DiscGolf01, came to poker from the chess world after meeting a group of chess enthusiasts who had recently quit their jobs to play poker.
After dabbling for a year or so throughout 2004 he made the switch and began playing professionally in 2005 with an initial focus almost exclusively on SNGs. He gradually expanded his range to multi-table tournaments and heads-up SNGs and was subsequently hooked. For the last few years he has played mainly heads-up and 6-max cash games from $200 to $1000 no-limit.
Soon after quitting his day job John spent a year traveling around the world playing from hotels and hostels, averaging only about 1.5 hours a day, paying for the whole trip and then some.
Needless to say... John doesn't play as much chess these days. You can catch John at the BlackChip tables, where his alias is DiscGolf01. John may be available for private coaching, if you'd like to enquire about this contact us.
Hailing from poker heartland in Texas, Ben's first experience of the game began in the fourth grade. The stakes? Pokemon cards, of course.
Well Ben doesn't play for Pokemon cards anymore, but he did go pro a few years back, while in his late teens. He's now well versed and very accomplished in cash games, tournies and SNGs.
Ben's a music major, with a passion for teaching, so if you'd like some coaching check out his blog and get in touch.
You can catch Ben at the BlackChip tables, where his alias is reasons14.
José Luis Barandiariaín AKA 00cayman00
José Luis Barandiariaín, also known as Caymanako, built a bankroll of $70.000 from a starting point of just $100 in his first year at it. He started playing sit'n'gos, and in 2010 became a professional player of no limit Holdem cash games of differing stacks. Caymanako is intent on the study and improvement of his game, and he dedicates much of his time each day to the task. He is a well known trainer for all skill levels and works as a coach through his blog www.caymanako.com and for Habpoker. You can find him under his nickname 00cayman00 at the BlackChipPoker Tables.
Pablo Cusi Sierra AKA ExtremHard
My name is Pablo Cusi. I was born in Buñol, a little village near Valencia, Spain, on May, 4th 1982. I have two different university degrees, one in Business Administration and another in Economics, both with an extraordinary prize upon graduation. Professionally, I have worked for more than seven years in Garrigues; one of the most important European firms, as a tax adviser, currently I am a Senior Associate there. For many years, I was an amateur chess player, participating in regional competitions individually and with my village’s chess club. However, in September 2008 I discovered poker (specifically NL Holdem), and since then I have spent almost all my (little) free time on poker. As a poker player, I’m an amateur player but poker is more than a hobby for me. Now, with my family and my job as tax adviser, poker is one of the most important things in my life. I like NL25-NL50 Holdem and currently I play around fourty thousand hands per month, pretty much exclusively at Black Chip Poker since December 2011 because I found I was really happy with the software and the support crew. Finally, I have to say that I have achieved all this despite the fact that I suffer a severe physical disability which means I’m physically paralysed with the use of only two fingers. It means that I need the help of a machine to breath and the assistance of a third person to execute my commands when I play live poker games or tournaments. That ‘third person’ is usually my little brother Javier.
