List of mind athletes of today

Amnon Eric Filippi (born June 29, 1969 in New York City) is a professional poker player based in New York City.

Andreas Høivold (born 1972 in Sunderland, England), is a Norwegian professional poker player.

Andrew Robl (born September 27, 1986) also known by his alias good2cu, is an American professional poker player from Okemos, Michigan.

Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari, born Amir Esfandiary (Persian: امیر اسفندیاری‎‎; December 8, 1978), is a professional poker player and former professional magician...

Barry Greenstein (born December 30, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American professional poker player. He has won a number of major events, including three at the World Series of Poker and two on the World Poker Tour. Greenstein...

Bertrand Grospellier (born February 8, 1981 in Melun), also known as ElkY /ˈɛlki/, is a poker player and former StarCraft: Brood War and Warcraft III esports player.

William "Bill" Chen (born 1970 in Williamsburg, Virginia) is an American quantitative analyst, poker player, and software designer.

Bradley (Brad) Booth (born September 20, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is a Canadian professional poker player known for his appearances on the GSN series High Stakes Poker

Brandon Adams (born December 12, 1978 in New Orleans) is a poker player and self-published author.

Brian Townsend is an American professional poker player.

Christopher Philip "Chris" Ferguson (born April 11, 1963) is an American poker player.

Dan Brandon Bilzerian (born December 7, 1980) is an American professional poker player, actor and internet social media personality.

Daniel Christopher Alaei (born 1983) is a professional poker player from Santa Fe Springs, California. He is of Iranian descent.

Daniel Negreanu (/nɨˈɡrɑːnoʊ/; born July 26, 1974) is a Romanian and Canadian professional poker player who has won six World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and two World Poker Tour (WPT) championship titles...

Daniel Shak (born May 7, 1959) is an American semi-professional poker player and hedge fund manager

Dario Minieri (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdaːrjo minˈjɛːri]; born 1985) is an Italian professional poker player from Rome, Italy.

David Benyamine (born July 5, 1972 in Paris, France) is a French professional poker player with a World Poker Tour title.

David F. Grey is an American professional poker player from Henderson, Nevada.

David Anthony Williams (born June 9, 1980) is a professional poker player and Magic: The Gathering player.

Dennis N. Phillips (born December 1954) is a professional poker player from St Louis, Missouri.

Doyle F. Brunson (born August 10, 1933) is an American poker player who has played professionally for over 50 years. He is a two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion, a Poker Hall of Fame inductee, and the author...

Eliahu Ilan Elezra (Hebrew: אלי אלעזרא‎; born November 24, 1960 in Jerusalem) is an Israeli professional poker player and businessman, now living in Las Vegas, Nevada...

Erick A. Lindgren (born August 11, 1976 in Burney, California) is an American professional poker player.

Kassem Ibrahim "Freddy" Deeb (born November 27, 1955 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a professional poker player who emigrated from Lebanon to the United States at the age of 19.

Gabriel W. "Gabe" Kaplan (born March 31, 1945) is an American comedian, actor, poker commentator, and professional poker player.

Gustav "Gus" Hansen (born Gustav Jacobsen on 13 February 1974 outside Copenhagen, Denmark) is a professional Danish poker player who lives in Monaco.

Guy Laliberté, (born September 2, 1959) is a Canadian entrepreneur, philanthropist, poker player, space tourist, co-founder and the current CEO of Cirque du Soleil.

Haralabos "Bob" Voulgaris (born 1975) is a Greek Canadian professional gambler, sports bettor, and sports book owner.

Hikaru Nakamura (born December 9, 1987) is a United States chess grandmaster. He is a four-time United States Chess Champion, who won the 2011 edition of Tata Steel Group A and represented the United States at five Chess Olympiads...

Howard Henry Lederer (born October 30, 1963) is an American professional poker player.

Ilari Sahamies (born 1983 in Helsinki, Finland), also known as Ziigmund, is a Finnish professional poker player.

Jamie M. Gold (born August 25, 1969) is an American television producer, a talent agent, and poker player, based in Malibu, California.

Jason Mercier (born November 12, 1986) is an American professional poker player from Hollywood, Florida.

Jennifer C. Harman-Traniello (born November 29, 1964, in Reno, Nevada) is an American professional poker player. She has won two World Series of Poker bracelets in open events, one of only two women to have done so...

Jennifer Tilly (born Jennifer Ellen Chan; September 16, 1958) is a Canadian-American actress and poker player. She is a World Series of Poker Ladies' Event bracelet winner. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supportin...

Joseph Hachem (Arabic: جوزف هاشم‎; /ˈhæʃəm/; born 11 March 1966) is a Lebanese Australian professional poker player known for winning the main event of the 2005 World Series of Poker. He was the first Australian to win the main ev...

John D'Agostino (born November 3, 1982) is an American professional poker player.

Johnson "John" Juanda (born July 8, 1971) is an Indonesian-born American professional poker player based in Marina del Rey, California. He has won five World Series of Poker bracelets.

Johnny Chan (born in Hangzhou, China in 1957) is a Chinese-born American professional poker player. He has won 10 World Series of Poker bracelets, including the 1987 and 1988 World Series of Poker main events consecutively...

Jonathan Duhamel (born August 24, 1987) is a Canadian poker professional from Boucherville, Quebec, best known as the winner of the Main Event at the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP).

Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster, No. 1 ranked player in the world and reigning World Chess Champion in classical, rapid and blitz. His peak rating is 2882, the highest in history. A...

Michael David Mizrachi (born January 5, 1981) is an American professional poker player.

Michael Matusow (born April 30, 1968 in Los Angeles, California) is an American professional poker player, residing in Henderson, Nevada.

Thithi "Mimi" Tran (born July 5, 1960) is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player.

Minh Hoang Ly (born March 24, 1967 in Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player based in Temple City, California.

Nicholas David Rowland "Nick" Cassavetes (Greek: Νικόλαος Δαβίδ Ρουλαντ "Νίκος" Κασσαβέτης; born May 21, 1959) is an American film actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker...

Nigel David Short (born 1 June 1965) is an English chess grandmaster, chess columnist, chess coach and chess commentator. Short earned the Grandmaster title at the age of 19, and was ranked third in the world by FIDE from January...

Patrik Antonius (born 13 December 1980 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish professional poker player, former tennis player and coach, and model from Vantaa, Finland.

Paul J. Wasicka (born February 17, 1981 in Dallas, Texas) is a professional poker player.

Peter Eastgate (born 13 December 1985) is a poker player from Denmark, best known as the winner of the Main Event at the 2008 World Series of Poker. At the time, he became the youngest player ever to win the event. He was subseque...