Date of Birth: 4/13/39 Birthplace: Sioux Falls, SD Now Resides: Santa Cruz, CA Marital Status: Married 38 years Children: 2 sons, 28 and 27 Started playing poker: Age 18 Favorite poker game: No Limit Hold'em Ambition: Win a WSOP bracelet

Hobbies: Golf, reading, travel, collecting baseball memorabilia

Favorite Movie: The Hustler

Favorite Music: Traditional New Orleans Jazz

Favorite Place in the world: The 8th hole at Pebble Beach

Favorite Celebrity: Tiger Woods

Major Poker Accomplishments:

• Two-time Seniors Champion

• Making the final tables of the two biggest WSOP no-limit hold'em events of 1995

Most respected poker players:
Howard Andrew, Vince Burgio, Eric Seidel

If you could change anything in the world, what would it be?
That one morning we all would wake up and find out that there is total world peace

If you could change anything in the poker world, what would it be?
I would like to see European cardrooms become smokefree.