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Antonia Esfandiari ( The Magician ) was born in Tehran, Iran on the 8 December 1978. His original name was Amir Esfandiary which he changed in later years.
He is a Professional Poker player who has won two WPT (World Poker Tour) championships and three WSOP (World Series of Poker) bracelets. He was also the face of UltimatePoker.com which has subsequently closed down.
Ausaf Umar Siddiqui (Known as Omar Siddiqui) was born in Pakistan in 1966.
He is known for gambling over $162 million in Las Vegas, USA from 2005 to 2008 after embezzling money from his employer Fry's Electronics, through money-laundering and wire fraud.
Charles De Ville Wells was born in 1841 in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, UK.
His claim to fame was the fact that he broke the bank at the roulette tables in Monte Carlo.
Daniel Colman was born in Holden, Massachusetts, USA on the 11 July 1990.
He is an American Professional Poker player who was known for winning $1 million at The Big One for One Drop event at the 2014 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. He was playing Texas Hold'em Poker when he got the win.
Doyle F Brunson aka Texas Dolly was born in Longworth, Fisher County, Texas on August 10 1933. He is a retired Poker player that had a career spanning 50 years.
Doyle was one of the first poker players to win $1 million in poker tournaments and won the World Series of Poker (WSOP) twice. He has also written numerous books about Poker and is an inductee in the Poker Hall of Fame.
Brunson and a friend called Dwayne Hamilton started playing Poker at various illegal venues in Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, that were typically run by criminals who were members of organized crime syndicates.
Dr Edward Oakly Thorp was born in Chicago, Illinois USA on the 14 August 1932.
He is an American maths professor, blackjack player and hedge fund manager.
His claim to fame was to develop a wearable device which uncovered mathematical advantages at the Blackjack tables. He also mathematically proved that the player could remove the house advantage in blackjack by using card counting techniques.
Tommy Glenn Carmichael was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on the 7 May 1950.
Carmichael was the mastermind of a slot machine group that cheated millions of dollars from casinos worldwide.