10 Online Poker Millionaires Under 30 – Part 1

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There are some who compare professional online poker players to vampires, the similarity being that they both come out only at night to suck the blood of the unwary before crawling back into their hiding places to sleep during the day while the rest of the world goes forth to do their daily scrabbling for an honest loaf of bread.

Though we readily admit to having met more than a few reptiles along the way, hardly any vampires, and so would like to introduce you to some of the best players you never want sitting across from you on the virtual felt.

Each of these 10 mostly twenty-something-year-old online pros has cashed in for over a million dollars in poker winnings without, at least to our knowledge, ever having sucked one drop of blood from anybodies neck.

What they do have in common is mega-hours of multi-tabling behind them and the ability to make instant reads that are the right choice the majority of the time. Most will admit to being math geeks and suckers for complex puzzles and games, as well as being superb bankroll managers. A high number of them are also college dropouts.

Harrison “gibler321″ Gimbel

The baby of this particular group is 19-year old Harrison Gimbel, who recently made headlines as the youngest player to ever win the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event. He was paid $2.2 million for that win alone, and gained entry by winning $1,000 satellite the day before the PCA began. He dropped out of the University of Alabama to concentrate on playing poker.

• Plays under these nicknames: gibler321, Rikish

• Lifetime winnings thus far are in excess of $2,767,423.00

Yevgeniy “Jovial Gent” Timoshenko

Next up is Ukrainian born 21-year old Yevgeniy Timoshenko who moved to the Seattle area when he was eight-years-old. He got interested in poker after seeing Chris Moneymaker win the World Series of Poker on television and started playing games with his friends. Timoshenko is one of those rarities who when he made the jump to online play, built his bankroll playing freerolls and consequently never had to make a deposit at an online poker room. He most recent big score was taking down the World Championship Of Online Poker in 2009 for $1,715,200.00.

• Plays under these nicknames: Bballer88, Jovial Gent,

• Lifetime winnings thus far are in excess of  $6 million.

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Shaun “tedsfishfry” Deeb

22-year old Shaun Deeb has played in over 10,000 tournaments and can multi-table up to 30 tables at one time. He began to play online poker when he was 19, and is said to have turned a $30 initial deposit into $33,000 in 2 week’s time. For the year 2009 his cashes have included winning the Friday Night Fight on Full Tilt Poker for 28,704.00, 2^nd place in The Sunday Brawl on Full Tilt Poker for $53,908.80, and 6th place in the Sunday 500 on PokerStars for $20,362.25.

• Plays under these nicknames: shaundeeb, tedsfishfry

• Lifetime winnings thus far are in excess of $2,262,618

Mike “Sowerss” Sowers

Mike Sowers is a 23-year old living in North Carolina who in his brief career has had 2 World Series of Poker cashes and 2 WPT cashes, coming in 3^rd in the 2009 Los Angeles Poker Classic for a score of $654,797. In his first WSOP event in 2008, he made the final table in the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold’em Championship, coming in 8^th place.

• Plays under the nickname Sowerss

• Lifetime winnings thus far are in excess of $3,258,065

David “Doc Sands” Sands

Bozeman, MT native twenty-something David Sands, known less formerly as Doc Sands came in second in the 2009 Online Player of the Year competition, earning in 2009 alone a roaring $1,018,966.00. Sands is currently ranked number one worldwide by PoketFives.

• Plays under these nicknames: dsands25, SirSands, Doc Sands, SexSeen, DSANDS25

• Lifetime winnings thus far are in excess of $1,648,193

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