Andrew “foucault82” Brokos

Andrew Brokos is a professional poker player, writer, and coach. He is also the co-host of the popular podcast, Thinking Poker. Andrew is a poker theory expert and helps TPE members strengthen their hand analysis skills

Alexander “Assassinato” Fitzgerald

Alexander Fitzgerald is a professional poker player and published writer, in addition to being the most active tournament poker coach on the tour. Alex prefers to work on global poker systems that produce steady profits for poker players of all levels, and bases most of his teaching on the tenets of “deliberate practice.”

Collin Moshman

Collin Moshman graduated from Caltech with an honors degree in math and is the author of 3 books on poker. His specialty is SNGs and turbo MTTs, where he has coached hundreds of players to succeed in their games.

Casey “bigdogpckt5s” Jarzabek

Casey Jarzabek, known as “bigdogpckt5s” across most sites, is a staple of the high-stakes MTT community. He has over $5 Million in earnings and won the Pokerstars Sunday Million in back-to-back weeks.

Mike “goleafsgoeh” Leah

Mike Leah is a professional poker player and MTT specialist hailing from Toronto, Canada. Known as “GoLeafsGoEH” Mike has been dominant online and live, winning WCOOPs and earning a WSOP bracelet.

Derek “Killingbird” Tenbusch

Derek Tenbusch, who plays as “Killingbird” online, is a co-founder of TPE. He is a fixture in the U.S. online poker scene and the host of a popular twitch stream.

Jerod “jsmith84poker” Smith

Jerod Smith aka jsmith84poker is an online and live poker pro with several final tables and wins to his name.

Danny “DannyN13” Noseworthy

Danny “DannyN13” Noseworthy is a Canadian pro with over $2 Million in earnings. He has won the Pokerstars PCA Canada Cup and final-tabled WCOOP events.

Jase “SSSMforlife” Regina

Jase Regina, aka “SSSMforlife” (SSSMBRFC2/C on Pokerstars) is a 29-year-old poker pro from Toronto, Ontario. He specializes in online MTTs and has been a professional for four years.

Justin “birddy420” Ouimette

Justin has over $2 Million in online MTT earnings with victories in most of the nightly tournaments, and several majors including an FTOPs.

Jason Smith

Jason Smith is a professional poker player and coach with almost 3 million in online earnings. Recently placing 4th in the Million Dollar Sunday (WPN) for $55,500

Matthew “theginger45” Hunt

Matthew Hunt is a professional poker player from the UK. Known as theginger45 on most sites, he started playing poker while studying French at University, and began online in low-stakes cash games and SNGs to help fund his Masters degree. He has been a pro since 2012 and is one of TPE’s most popular coaches.

Arvydas “Merfinis” Merfeldas

Arvydas “Merfinis” Merfeldas is a poker pro from Lithuania. He joined TPE in 2013 and has quickly become one of our most popular video producers.

Jamie Kerstetter

Jamie Kerstetter is a former lawyer turned pro poker player. Jamie is a fixture on the live MTT scene and has qualified for the 2012 and 2014 WSOP National Championships.

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Kyle “IGT” O’Neill

Kyle, a Turbo MTT specialist, started playing 2.50 180-man MTTs in 2009. Since then Kyle climbed the ranks and finished #1 on the profit leaderboard for 180-man MTTs.

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Nate Meyvis

Nate Mayvis, co-host of the popular Thinking Poker Podcast, combines his knowledge of poker and his background in education to provide top-notch poker training.

Peter “The Saurus” Morris

Peter Morris, better known as “DrawingBored” on the virtual felt, and far better known away from the poker table as two time world rap battle champion “The Saurus”, has been balancing the music/battle rap/poker grind for the better part of the last 15 years.

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Daryl Jace

Daryl Jace, known online as “aaaaaaaa” and “fkscreennames”, has over $3 million in poker winnings. His remarkable scores include 5 Sunday Million final tables with 2 wins, and 2 deep runs in the WSOP Main Event.

Marc “aznAllin007” Alioto

Marc Alioto is a true grinder and deep poker thinker. His videos cover strategy, technology and poker life. Marc is talented in breaking down a hand and exploring it from all angles.

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Dylan Thomassie

Dylan Thomassie (aka thedylan1 pre-Black Friday) has nearly $1 million in recorded cashes on PocketFives. Living in Las Vegas, he splits his time grinding online tournaments and live cash games. A very well rounded player that has had consistent success in his 8 years as a professional.

Cory “MJ23STYLEz” Waaland

Cory Waaland is an MTT pro from Long Island, NY. Cory has had success on US-facing sites, including a Poker Maximus Main Event win and has also won 5 WSOP Circuit rings live.

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Lee Childs

Many people know Lee Childs for his 2007 WSOP final table appearance. However this is just one of the many accomplishments for Lee in poker. Since then Lee has been a mainstay on the live circuit and coached hundreds of students.

Benjamin “Reasons14” Reason

Benjamin Reason is a multi-talented poker player with skills across cash, MTTs, Turbos, Hypers and SNGs (regular/turbo).

Christopher “MovesLikeDarvin” Moon

Chris Moon is a poker player with an impressive resume including a 2nd place finish in the Heartland Poker Tour for over $100k. His videos are not only informative but entertaining as well.

David “betudontbet” Emmons

David “betudontbet” Emmons is one of many American MTT pros that has made the move overseas (in his case Mexico) to continue the online grind. He has nearly $5 Million in earnings and won the Turbo Championship Main Event on Pokerstars.

Brendon “Brendooor” Rubie

Brendon Rubie, commonly known on the poker circuit by his online alias “Brendooor”, is a well known online and live pro with several WSOP final tables on his resume.

Nikolai “Halowax” Sears

Nikolai “Halowax” Sears is a HSMTT regular (formerly known as Euthanaces on FTP and YaGotBurnt on PS). He specializes in NLHE and PLO and his first video for TPE is a Intro to PLO MTTs for tournament players.

Ben Hayles

Ben “gamb64” Hayles is a 37 year-old English poker coach who has been playing for 15 years and coaching for 5. His specialty is data analysis and has a very popular video series on using Holdem Manager to improve your game.

Kevin “Merby” Doerksen

Kevin Doerksen is an adjunct professor of mathematics. He earned his Ph.D. from Simon Fraser University in 2011. His Theory series on MTT Mathematics is one of the most popular series of all time.

Justin “looshle” Pechie

Justin Pechie started playing professionally at the age of twenty one, grinding online limit holdem and multi-table tournaments. Justin won a WSOP bracelet in 2011 in a Limit Holdem Shootout event.

Dan “BourbonFTW” Witcher

Dan started playing poker in his fraternity back in 2004-2005. A regular in the weekly small stakes cash games, he would often joke that he would play poker professionally one day. Little did he know that he would become one of the most feared players in online poker.

“RonFezBuddy” (founder and contributor)

RonFezBuddy is co-founder of TPE and a serious amateur player with nearly $800k in online winnings.

Tim “TTWIST” Kelly

Tim “TTWIST” Kelly is a long time grinder of all stakes both live and on-line and is our community manager here at TPE.