Date of Birth: 02/25/59 Birthplace: Illinois Now Resides: Iowa Marital Status: Married Children: Three Daughters Started playing poker: 1996 Favorite poker game:No Limit Hold 'em Ambition: Win a WPT event.

Hobbies: Fishing, Writing, Boating, and Hanging out at my Cabin and with my Family.

Favorite Movie: No specific one.

Favorite Music: Rock and Roll

Favorite Place in the world: My Cabin on The Mississippi River followed by Las Vegas.

Favorite Celebrity: Robin Williams

Major Poker Accomplishments:
Won the $500 World Poker Open Stud Hi Lo split tournament in 2001 as an amateur.
I have 3 final table finishes this year and a total of 10 final tables in $500 buy in Tournaments or higher.

Most respected poker players: Daniel Negreanu, Jennifer Harman,and Chris "Jesus" Ferguson.

If you could change anything in the world, what would it be?
The health issues we face in in the U.S. at this moment. The crisis is here. There is a major problem when Doctors cannot practice Medicine the way it was suppose to be practiced. All people should have access to affordable health care. I am not for socialized Medicine, far from it (although we really do have a form of socialized medicine already due to Medicare). The issues are not just malpractice reform either. It is much deeper.

This is not a political agenda on my part. It is a shame to see that the greatest country in the world cannot find real solutions to real problems.

The handwriting is on the wall. We cannot continue to ignore it or to remain split apart about the best way to fix the system any longer. There are states that have reached critical points in being able to give their residents medical care. Physicians are leaving certain states in a mass exodus or they quit practicing medicine altogether. The brightest students in college are no longer applying to Medical School.

Medicine has already seen irreversible consequences due to these issues. We cannot ignore it any longer. These issues involve everyone. Just because you and your family is healthy now does not mean that it does not concern you. You might find yourself having to wait weeks to see a physician or having to travel miles away from home to receive adequate care. We see this already happening. It is a certainy that this will be happening in every state that does not address these issues now.

If you could change anything in the poker world, what would it be?
A standard set of rules for every Casino to follow. Why have different rules. Accept that there is no one set of rules that can address Poker for 100% of the people and 100% of the time. We should not have to bicker over this or continue the confusion of this rule is this way here and that way there. Accept them and stop the confusion. For the player's sake, the dealer's sake and the floor people's stake. No other game has had this much controversy over rule making.