Bluefire Poker Pros

Before dropping out of school to focus on poker, he decided to enhance his poker game by taking courses in logic, psychology and bayesian probability.  He quickly rose through the ranks to the ultra high stakes games, and currently plays 200/400 thru 500/1000 Hold'em and Pot Limit Omaha.

He won a WSOP bracelet this summer in the $5,000 PLO rebuy event, triumphing over a final table that included Phil Hellmuth, Johnny Chan, Daniel Negreanu, John Juanda, David Benyamine and other well established stars.  He took down over $800,000 for the win.  Despite the relative anonymity that comes with being an internet player, Phil is widely respected among the top professionals in the field. Although he obtained considerable publicity from winning his first bracelet at the age of 23, Phil was already one of the most feared players on the internet and has made millions of dollars online.

He has written many articles on poker, including "G-Bucks", which is regarded by many to be the best poker article out there.  Phil has a unique ability to take very advanced concepts and explain them in a way people can understand.  In fact, while Phil is indisputably one of the best players in the world, one could argue that he is an even better poker TEACHER.  He has been approached by nearly every existing training site with some lucrative offers, but he turned them all down.  Having the creative and educational control of an entire site is what he was looking for, and the result is Bluefirepoker.

Niman Kenkre, as you will be able to tell from his videos, is a very smart person.  He scored a 1580 on his SATs, and he is an extremely analytical player able to break down what would be seen as a simple hand by most players, into an in depth analysis on every street with thoughts that most people would not think of.  He approaches the game in a very unique way, and is probably one of the most advanced poker minds out there.  Niman was an all-american soccer player in high school, and went on to play professionally after graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, and then played a summer in Iceland after graduating Penn State with a 4.0 in his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. He went on to work for a few employers as an electrical engineer, most notably MIT, until he turned to poker full time in 2006.  Over the last 4-5 years since he began playing poker, Niman has turned a single $25 deposit into millions of dollars.

After he started making more money in his spare time from poker than he was at his full time job, Jason left a high paying salary as an electrical engineer to pursure poker full time about a year and a half ago.  Able to dedicate much more time to poker, just one month into his professional poker debut, Jason was already making substantially more than what he'd made at his job.  Jason plays anywhere from 5/10-50/100nl. Some interesting things about Jason are that he has been to just about every country in western and middle Europe, and he plays guitar and sings in a popular band in Minneapolis.

When Martin began playing cash games, he started at the .50/1 games.  Only weeks later, he decided to drop out of school to play poker.  He spent the winter traveling through Europe and living on his poker winnings.  He then began to take the game more seriously, and progessed up through 1/2 and crushing 2/4 with a unique style that his opponents had trouble playing against, and enabled Martin to be arguably the biggest winner on the net at 2/4.  After returning from traveling through Austrailia last winter Martin purchased a luxury home in Quebec City with another well known poker pro, Takechip. Martin is 21 years old, and currently plays the 2/4 and 5/10 games online.  People have been waiting to see Martin teach his unique, ultra-aggressive style.

Despite rising through the ranks at an incredible pace, Ryan is only 20 years old, so he's still not able to play most tournaments in the US.  Recently he decided to head down to Costa Rica to play a LAPT event and ended up winning the tournament for over $285,000.