JohnnyBax and Sheets

Cliff Josephy, aka JohnnyBax to the online poker world, won the prestigious Seven Card Stud Bracelet even though he had never played a live stud tournament before. He is currently a top-ranked player at PocketFives.com (a leading online tournament authority), and he was the top tournament player at PokerStars in 2005. Formerly a successful stockbroker, Cliff first began playing poker online in 2004, and has since won numerous online and live tournaments.

Eric Haber, known as Sheets to online poker players, is a top ranked player who has won countless online tournaments across all sites. In his very spare time, he has found a way to cash in live events as well, most recently coming in first in the 2008 WSOP Circuit Main Event at Caesars in Atlantic City, outlasting over 270 players to win 400k+. A successful hedge fund manager, he previously toured and lectured law students around the country on how to pass the bar exam. He is a renowned poker teacher and mentor.

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Eric Lynch, better known as Rizen online, is a highly ranked player with many large tournament wins under his belt including the Stars 1 million, Party Friday Special, Empire 200k, and Paradise 150k (twice). Eric has had a lot of success in many live tournaments as well. He claimed almost $600,000 from just two events at the 2006 World Series of Poker, including a 24th-place finish in the main event and a third place in the $1,500 pot-limit hold’em. In 2007, Lynch cashed five times at the WSOP and made two final tables. In the $1,500 pot-limit Omaha event, he finished second, which was good for almost $120,000. Altogether, Eric has nearly $800,000 in live tournament winnings. A former software engineer, Eric started playing poker online in 2003, and decided to start doing so full time in early 2006.

Chris 'Fox' Wallace quit his job five years ago to play poker professionally. Long before that he was studying the game, learning about game theory and is continually fascinated by the logic problems inherent in the game. Fox began taking students in 2004 and has helped many players make a full or part-time living out of their favorite hobby. He also writes a monthly column for Poker Pro magazine as well contributing to a number of other sites and magazines. Known as one of the premier coaches in the game, Fox is as proud of his students successes as he is of his own.

Adam 'hatfield13' Stemple hasn't held a regular job in over twenty years. During that time, he's played in bands, he's written books--he's played so much poker it'd make your ass hurt. As a teenager in Massachusetts, he played nickel ante no-limit games to keep himself in smokes and beer, eventually moving to Minneapolis and playing higher in home games, or spending the weekend in Iowa casinos slaughtering their 7-stud 8 or better games. When the Canterbury Park Cardroom opened, Adam coined the phrase, "All the action you could want, and more rake than you can stand." He still wonders why they don't use it in their ads. He began his online career by turning fifty bonus dollars at PartyPoker into ten thousand real dollars in less than six months. He hasn't played much brick and mortar since. For the past two and a half years he ran the popular PokerFox.net training site with online pro, Chris "Fox" Wallace. More info can be found at www.adamstemple.com

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Michael Glasser, aka inissint online, started playing poker online in 2004 at the urging of a friend. He met Sheets through playing SNGs and became fast friends with him. Under Sheets' tutelage, Michael began to excel in SNG play. After much work and close attention to detail, he is now one of the more successful highest limit SNG players, and is ranked at or near top of Sharkscope's higher limits leaderboard.

Chris "beanmo" Mozingo has been a top online SNG player in the his 4 years as a pro. He's netted over $1 million primarily playing the mid to high stakes SNG on Party Poker and now Full Tilt Poker. And despite playing multis only sparingly, he has several five-figure wins or cashes.

Kevin Saul, known as BeL0WaB0Ve online, started playing poker in the summer of 1995. He continued to play live poker over the next few years, but his game solidified once he started playing online, initially playing in low stakes No Limit games and SNG's, but soon graduating to tournament poker. A self-described "very aggressive" player, Kevin studied with top online players such as Sheets, JohnnyBax, and others. Kevin graduated from Northern Illinois University with a psychology major; in January of 2005 his multi-tournament game took off, and he quit his day job to pursue poker full-time. In February of 2006, Kevin started making a consistent profit. He recently took down the WPT Bellagio and made multiple final tables at Foxwoods.

Chris Savage, aka brsavage online, has been consistently winning at online poker since 2004, winning 12 Aruba seats, 3 WSOP seats, and much more that year, including one 70K week. In 2005, he played live across the country under a backing arrangement with Sheets and Bax, recording several cashes and highlighted by a bracelet for winning the World Poker Open limit hold'em event, while still winning many major tournaments online. With the birth of twins that year, he decided to reenter the corporate world and play less frequently in 2006, focusing on quality of play instead of quantity. He is the General Manager of a large Ford dealership in Baton Rouge, La., and is married to wife Amy. They have twins, daughter Baylee and son Brayden.

Mark "mscell" Scellato started playing online poker in September 2005, starting out with low limit SNGs and micro buyin tournaments. He began showing a profit once he started playing $20 180-man SNGs on Pokerstars. Mark joined Pokerxfactor as a subscriber in May 2006 and saw results soon thereafter, winning his first two major online tournaments in December 2006. Working in the financial services industry and raising his two daughters, Mark decided to pursue poker full time in April 2007, a decision made easier by the growth of his bankroll over the previous six months. Over the course of 2007, Mark would go on to win 10 online tournaments with another 8 runner-up finishes. He began getting requests for poker coaching other players, and by May 2007 Mark had joined Pokerfox as a guest instructor, and by October he had become their featured tournament instructor. He considers himself a "Pokerxfactor success story" and credits Bax and Sheets along with the other PXF pros for much of his development as a poker player. Mark resides in Jackson, NJ with his two children. His blog can be found at http://mscell.wordpress.com and he can be found playing online tournaments on Pokerstars and Full Tilt throughout the week.

Jon Turner, known as PearlJammer online, had never played poker until he watched the WSOP on ESPN in 2003 and was taken with it. He started playing online, grinding $.25/.50 NL cash games and the occasional $10 - $50 sit 'n go or multi-table tourney. It wasn't until Jon found a small group of guys at North Carolina State University getting together to play poker that he truly got hooked. The games grew into organized nightly tournaments, and soon he was making at least enough money to quit his job at Circuit City and pursue his passion. He kept up his online play along with live tournament play, and in 2005 Jon moved out to Las Vegas to play poker professionally. His first big win there was a $3k buy in NL, placing 18th out of just over 1,000 players for about $20k. Late that year he began focusing more on online tournaments and hasn't looked back since. The past year has seen some major cashes for Jon, including 3rd in the WPT $2500 Prelim at Borgata for $59K, 12th in the WPT 10K Borgata for $72K, 3rd (3 way chop) at PokerParty Million in 2006 for $81K, 1st in the FTP $1k for $45K, 2nd in the PokerStars Million for $100K, and many more online cashes for over $20K.