The PXF Team

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.

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

Scott Clements, known as BigRiskky on many online sites, is one of the top poker players in the world today. His accomplishments to date include two WSOP bracelets, three WPT first-place finishes, and over $3.1 million in career earnings. Scott Clements plays online as a Full Tilt Poker Pro. He made a strong debut in the spring of 2005 when he cashed in three WSOPC events, including a first-place finish in the $1K No-limit Hold 'em event in Lake Tahoe. In 2006, after cashing in the $2K Omaha Hi/Lo event as a warm up, Scott went on to win his first WSOP bracelet by besting a field of 352 in the $3K Omaha Hi/Lo event. In 2007, he racked up 11 cash finishes, including a WPT Championship, all before returning to Las Vegas for the 2007 WSOP. Again, Scott had a very strong series, cashing in five events and winning his second WSOP bracelet in the $1.5K Pot-Limit Omaha event after a heads up battle with PXF Pro Eric "Rizen" Lynch. In April 2008, Scott added an additional $206,000 to his bankroll by winning Event #4 at the Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic.

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.

Alex Kamberis is a professional poker player who plays online as AJKHoosier1. Originally from Round Lake, IL, Alex started off his poker career by playing low stakes SNGs before working his way up to the highest stakes online tournaments. His largest online scores include a 3rd place in the 2008 WCOOP Main Event and multiple wins in the Pokerstars $200 rebuy. He has also had some success in the live poker arena including 22nd place in WPT Foxwoods $10K and 30th in the WPT Bellagio Five Diamond tournaments.

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. Over the course of 2007, Mark would go on to win 10 online tournaments with another 8 runner-up finishes. He began coaching other players in 2007 and also began doing training videos for Pokerfox. In March 2009, he became General Manager for PXF and continues to play poker on a semi-regular basis. In June 2009, he took down his first live tournament at the Borgata Summer Open.

Frank "Blueberleez" Jordan has been a fixture in the online poker community for several years. While his poker career started out in college playing in home games with friends and coworkers at the University of Tennessee, he quickly transitioned into online poker. En route to becoming an MTT specialist, Blueberleez has won dozens of tournaments across most major sites, and amassed over $2 million in prizes. His largest score online is a 2nd place finish in FTOPS Event #22 for $147,826. Frank currently resides in Henderson, Nevada.

Jerry Payne, known online as sandler1860, has been playing poker since he first watched it on television in 2004. He plays strictly multi-table tournaments and has progressed from the micro games to the highest buy-in tournaments. He has won a number of online tournaments across the major poker sites, with his biggest win coming in the Full Tilt Sunday Mulligan in June 09 for over $52K. Jerry has also had success in live events despite playing fewer than 20 tournaments lifetime. He took 2nd in a $550 WSOP Circuit event for over $20k in April 2008. A member from the very first day, Jerry credits PokerXFactor, specifically JohnnyBax and Sheets, for his improvement in tournament play.

Dave D'Alesandro started playing online poker in 2006. He began with freeroll tournaments and then began grinding the lowest stakes games on Bodog. He branched out to the other poker rooms and started playing 45 man SNGs and low limit MTTs, moving up as his bankroll grew. In the summer of 2008, Dave got his big break with a five figure score for winning the Full Tilt $40K. Two weeks later he logged his first six figure score - a $102K cash in FTOPS #10. He continued going strong in 2009 with a 4th place finish in the UBOC main event for $72K. During the summer of 2009, Dave had one of those two week stretches that tournament players dream about: he won the Full Tilt $90K for $22K, the $40K for another $16K, and took 2nd place in the Friday Night Fight for $19K. He credits PXF instructor AJKHoosier1 for helping him with his game. Outside of poker, Dave will be entering his senior year of college this fall at the University of Hartford in CT where he is studying Audio and Electrical Engineering.

Ryan Welch, known as gutshtallin online, started playing online poker back in 2005, after suffering a baseball injury in college. At first it was just small sngs and cash games. He didn't get serious about MTT strategy until October of 2007, when he joined PXF and began visiting the online poker forums. In early 2008, he left his successful career as a sales executive to become a fulltime high stakes MTT player. Since then he has risen the ranks of online MTTs and the live circuit as well. Some of his largest cashes online include winning the Sunday Warmup on Pokerstars for 99k, the Sunday Brawl on FTP for 68k, and an Ultimate Bet Online Championship event for 66k, and most recently the Sunday Pokerstars 100rebuy for 80k. On the live circuit, he has chopped a Foxwoods 1500 preliminary event for 34k, final tabled the Wynn 3k preliminary event for 15k, and just recently took 23rd in a WSOP 1500 preliminary event for 18k. Some of his strengths are consistency and his ability to change gears during a tournament. He has been ranked in the top 10 in the world on Pocketfives.com, and has been in the top 100 since September 2008.

Felipe "Improved" Montenegro was a professional tennis player before he discovered poker. After an injury ended his tennis career, he was hired as a coach for Longwood University. He would coach tennis during the day and play online poker at night. After some initial deposits, he began having success at low limit MTTs but struggled whenever he tried to move up in stakes. He was fortunate to meet Russell "rdcrsn" Carson who became his friend, mentor, and backer. Once he started having success at the high stakes MTTs including a win in the Full Tilt $750K guaranteed, he decided to play on his own bankroll. He has been ranked in the Top 15 on Pocketfives and is currently the number one ranked player in Costa Rica.

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