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Greatest mind athletes (all time)
A ranking of all professional mind athletes. A mind athlete is a person who competes in a sport that involves mainly mind skills. For athletes (physical), see other ranking.
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Bobby Fischer
Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008) was an American chess prodigy, grandmaster, and the eleventh World Chess Champion. In 1970, Fischer "dominated his contemporaries" by winning the 1970 Interzonal Tour...
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Garry Kasparov
Garry Kimovich Kasparov (born 13 April 1963) is a Russian chess Grandmaster, former undisputed World Chess Champion, writer, and political activist. From 1986 until his retirement in 2005 (228 months), Kasparov was having the high...
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Magnus Carlsen
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...
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Peter Svidler
Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (Russian: Пётр Вениами́нович Сви́длер; born June 17, 1976, in Leningrad) is a Russian chess Grandmaster, author, and commentator...
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Hikaru Nakamura
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...
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Nigel Short
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...
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Michael Mizrachi
Michael David Mizrachi (born January 5, 1981) is an American professional poker player.
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Minh Ly
Minh Hoang Ly (born March 24, 1967 in Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player based in Temple City, California.
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Jennifer Tilly
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...
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David Williams
David Anthony Williams (born June 9, 1980) is a professional poker player and Magic: The Gathering player.
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Jason Mercier
Jason Mercier (born November 12, 1986) is an American professional poker player from Hollywood, Florida.
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Phil Hellmuth
Phillip Jerome Hellmuth, Jr. (born July 16, 1964) is an American professional poker player who has captured a record fourteen World Series of Poker bracelets. He is the winner of the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker (W...
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Jennifer Harman
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...
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Gus Hansen
Gustav "Gus" Hansen (born Gustav Jacobsen on 13 February 1974 outside Copenhagen, Denmark) is a professional Danish poker player who lives in Monaco.
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Joe Hachem
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...
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Bertrand Grospellier
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.
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Barry Greenstein
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...
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Andreas Høivold
Andreas Høivold (born 1972 in Sunderland, England), is a Norwegian professional poker player.
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Phil Ivey
Phillip Dennis Ivey Jr. (born February 1, 1976) commonly known as Phil Ivey, is an American professional poker player who has won ten World Series of Poker bracelets, one World Poker Tour title and appeared at nine World Poker Tou...
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John Juanda
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.
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Gabe Kaplan
Gabriel W. "Gabe" Kaplan (born March 31, 1945) is an American comedian, actor, poker commentator, and professional poker player.
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Phil Laak
Philip "Phil" C. Laak (born September 8, 1972) is an Irish-American professional poker player and a poker commentator
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Guy Laliberté
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.
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Howard Lederer
Howard Henry Lederer (born October 30, 1963) is an American professional poker player.
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Erick Lindgren
Erick A. Lindgren (born August 11, 1976 in Burney, California) is an American professional poker player.
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Mike Matusow
Michael Matusow (born April 30, 1968 in Los Angeles, California) is an American professional poker player, residing in Henderson, Nevada.
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Alan Meltzer
Alan Meltzer (1944 – October 31, 2011) was an American businessman and poker player who founded Wind-up Records along with his ex-wife Diana Meltzer.
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Jamie Gold
Jamie M. Gold (born August 25, 1969) is an American television producer, a talent agent, and poker player, based in Malibu, California.
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Phil Galfond
Phil Galfond (born January 16, 1985) is an American professional poker player. Galfond won a World Series of Poker bracelet in the $5,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha with rebuys event at the 2008 World Series of Poker. Due to his succe...
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Daniel Negreanu
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...
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Bill Chen
William "Bill" Chen (born 1970 in Williamsburg, Virginia) is an American quantitative analyst, poker player, and software designer.
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Johnny Chan
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...
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Jonathan Duhamel
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).
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Jerry Buss
Gerald Hatten "Jerry" Buss (January 27, 1933 – February 18, 2013) was an American businessman, investor, chemist, and philanthropist. He was the majority owner of the Los Angeles Lakers professional basketball team in the National...
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Todd Brunson
Todd Alan Brunson (born August 7, 1969) is an American professional poker player and the son of poker player Doyle Brunson.
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Doyle Brunson
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...
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Brad Booth
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
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Dan Bilzerian
Dan Brandon Bilzerian (born December 7, 1980) is an American professional poker player, actor and internet social media personality.
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John D'Agostino
John D'Agostino (born November 3, 1982) is an American professional poker player.
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Freddy Deeb
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.
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Ted Forrest
Ted Forrest (born September 24, 1964 in Syracuse, New York) is an American professional poker player.
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Amnon Filippi
Amnon Eric Filippi (born June 29, 1969 in New York City) is a professional poker player based in New York City.
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Chris Ferguson
Christopher Philip "Chris" Ferguson (born April 11, 1963) is an American poker player.
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Sam Farha
Ihsan "Sam" Farha (born 1959 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a professional poker player. He is best known for finishing as runner up in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event in 2003 and has won three bracelets at the WSOP...
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Antonio Esfandiari
Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari, born Amir Esfandiary (Persian: امیر اسفندیاری; December 8, 1978), is a professional poker player and former professional magician...
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Eli Elezra
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...
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Peter Eastgate
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...
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Tom Dwan
Thomas Dwan Jr. (born July 30, 1986) is an American professional poker player who played online in the highest-stakes No-Limit Texas hold 'em and Pot-Limit Omaha games, primarily on Full Tilt Poker under the screen name "durrrr"...
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