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Player Profile: Ben “bfineman” Fineman

February 11th, 2009

One of the hottest young online poker stars in Ben “bfineman” Fineman. The native of Marion Station, Pennsylvania, is now living the poker dream in Las Vegas, where he plays a number of live events on top of his busy online multi-table poker tournament schedule. He’s been on fire in 2008, posting multiple live-event money finishes as well as over 150 online cashes. He first made the top list of online poker players after his win in the $1060 buy-in, No Limit Hold’em event on Full Tilt Poker back on August 12 for $300,000.

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Player Profile: STIAN ‘JohnnyBelow’ STABELL

February 10th, 2009

Scandinavia is a real hotbed of online poker these days. The tables at Pinnacle Sports Poker are full of aggressive players from these countries, and the game is still growing in popularity throughout the region. One of the hottest young poker players from the country of Norway is Stian “JohnnyBelow” Stabell. The 24-year-old native of Kirkenes, Norway, has been one of the best online multi-table poker tournament players in the world over the last two years.

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Player Profile: NICK ‘agriffrod’ MITCHELL

February 9th, 2009

If you’re looking for an online poker player who is living the dream of a poker shark, you need not look any further that Nick “agriffrod” Mitchell.The native of Webster, New York, who also goes by the user name of “NUMBERONEMOM”, is only 20 years old but already has over 360 online poker tournament money finishes in the past 12 months.

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That’s an average of almost one every day. Mitchell is currently ranked 45th on the pocketfives.com online tournament rankings, mainly because of his first-place finish in the FTOPS $1060 No Limit Hold’em on November 11, for a payday of $322,500.00.

Mitchell’s other recent notable scores include another first-place finish in the $109+R NL Hold’em ($70,000 guaranteed) at PokerStars on August 3 for $62,287.50. Another win came in the $109+R NL Hold’em at PokerStars on September 22 for $30,250.00. Back in August he also had a second-place finish in the 1K Monday on Full Tilt Poker for another $65,410.

Mitchell has also had 11 other finishes of $10,000 or more this year, bringing his multi-table tournament total earnings to over a half-million dollars this year. His all-time total online earnings are $817,886.00; pretty lucrative success for a young player who is only 20 years old.

Mitchell earned his way up through the ranks, slowly climbing the blind levels since 2005. He commented on his climb in an interview with pocketfives.com: “I used to be a really low volume player,” said Mitchell. “I didn’t usually play more than six tournaments at a time. I had a bad run and realized that there are a ton of tournaments out there with a lot of value and I was missing out on them. Now, I put in a lot of full days.”

His success has come from a dedication to playing as many tournaments as he can. “I’ve been in a groove,” noted Mitchell. “I played a lot during the WCOOP. I started to make deeper runs and then finally got a few wins.

“A lot of it for me is just desire,” he added. “When I actually want to be playing, I seem to get in a groove, but it’s hard to play when you really just want to be doing other things.”

Watch the continued rise of this accomplished young player, and watch out for Mitchell when you’re sitting down to play at Pinnacle Sports Poker.

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Player Profile: Brian Townsend

February 8th, 2009

Few online poker players have received more press than Brian Townsend. The 26-year-old online shark starting playing poker in 2005, at the lowest stakes the site would offer. Over the period of a year he built a bankroll big enough to switch to no-limit hold’em. A year later he was playing in $200/$400 no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha games and winning them, as he continues to do. Over the last two years he’s started playing high-profile live poker tournaments to earn more from sponsorship and to make a name for himself outside of the online poker world.

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Player Profile: Johan ‘buston_soon’ Van Til

February 7th, 2009

Johan Van Til is a 26-year-old Dutch online poker player who has been tearing up the online poker tournament scene for two years now. He consistently places high in multi-table poker tournaments, especially re-buy events, and has numerous cashes of over $10,000. Better known as “busto_soon”, Van Til has a combined 58 tournament cashes since January 2007, although he has yet to win any poker tournaments at Pinnacle Sports Poker. He currently holds the No. 23 spot, and has been as high as No. 13 on the pocketfives.com online poker player rankings.

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