Date of Birth: 03/09/79 Birthplace: Pensacola, FL Now Resides: Washington, DC Marital Status: Happily Married Children: 1 in the oven Started playing poker: When I was 9 Favorite poker game: No-Limit Hold'em Ambition: To have all 50 states recognize poker as a game of skill as opposed to a game of chance. To take poker to the masses and organize tournaments on every level from the extreme novice to the world class.

Hobbies: Fencing, Irish Folk Singing, Online Poker

Favorite Movie: Tied: Snatch, and Blow

Favorite Music: Sublime, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

Favorite Place in the world: New Orleans, LA

Favorite Celebrity: Too many to count

Major Accomplishments: Run the Dead Money Poker Club in the metro DC area. The group teaches people to play poker and meets monthly to play in a skill tournament. Gambling's not legel in Virginia so we play for prestige and spread the poker gospel.

Several wining junkets to Vegas, Atlantic City, and Biloxi
I was in the pot with the owner of a cardroom in New Orleans for more money than he had in the cage, and I took the pot down.

Most respected poker players: Doyle Brunson, for showing me that there was a science to the game. And I resepect every poker player who had ever taken a dollar off of me at the table and walked away with it.

If you could change anything in the world, what would it be?
Higher wages for our armed forces, give them the hereos benefits they truly deserve

If you could change anything in the poker world, what would it be?
The same as my ambition. For all US States to admit that poker is a game of skill, not chance.