Allen Spath

Al Spath is the Dean of PokerSchoolOnline and a respected writer, teacher and player in the poker community. He is a noted poker author (Poker Journal), and has had many articles published in Poker Digest and at many on-line internet sites. He has provided articles for PokerPages.com for years and has a vast collection of articles posted here and hundreds of hours of video training tapes at PokerSchoolOnline (now available to all members with Free download). Al's "A Chip, A Chair and A Prayer" was a feature article in the 2002 WSOP edition of Poker Digest. This article was selected for reprint in the first issue of "LiveActionPoker," a magazine debuting at the 2004 WSOP.

At PokerSchoolOnline, Al teaches poker throughout the week and you can join the training events and communicate directly with Al via the free ventrilo voice communication system that PSO utilizes. Instant feedback on your play and mistakes/great plays of others. An excellent teaching tool. He has been instrumental in organizing thousands of articles, lessons, videos, audios, quizzes provided to PSO by top pro's and former instructors at PSO and has resulted in Courses of Study (COS), which a member can now enroll (free) and progress at their pace to completion.

Al has been involved as a consultant or client tester for numerous sites beta testing software (HighRolldersCardroom, StreetLegalPoker, Grandbay, Emerald, Lonestar, Victory, Dynamite (TnT), PokerPages.com to name a few), and joins our team now after most recently being a poker consultant for DynamitePoker.com. In that capacity, Al designed tournaments, tested newly designed software (builds), provided instruction for new players, was available for private one on one tutoring and assisted with site marketing. Al owns several poker websites and has hosted several poker symposiums in Vegas.

Additional Bio: Past Southern California,Vegas casino and on-line tournament winner at both Stud and Holdem, however the past decade most of his time has been devoted to fostering poker education on-line.

Name: Allen Spath AKA "PSO Dean" Location: Havre De Grace, MD, United States Age: 61 Marital Status: Married Children: Andrea and Chris Started Playing Poker: 1960's Favorite Poker Game: 7-Stud Hi Ambition: Continue to teach the throngs of new players discovering internet poker and live play. As "Dean" of the PokerSchoolOnline, and instructor, I interact daily with thousands of players at the training tables, forums, and through electronic communications (v Hobbies: Golf and poker, is there anything else? Baseball and working for Major League Baseball Productions a side light, with big ups working the All-Star Games, World Series, and special events like the MTV Rock & Jock and ESPY Awards. Favorite Movie: Pride of the Yankees/Field of Dreams Favorite Music: 60's What Else! Favorite Place: Vegas Favorite Celebrity: Robin Williams, Billy Crystal and Muhammad Ali. Poker Players I Respect Most: Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey and Dan Harrington. If I could change anything in the world: No poverty or hunger, with health care for all. If I could change anything in the poker world: Television poker tables shown would indicate the hand #. Viewers think the hands shown are always sequential.

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