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Greatest mind athletes of today
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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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...
Peter Svidler
Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (Russian: Пётр Вениами́нович Сви́длер; born June 17, 1976, in Leningrad) is a Russian chess Grandmaster, author, and commentator...
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...
Minh Ly
Minh Hoang Ly (born March 24, 1967 in Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player based in Temple City, California.
Michael Mizrachi
Michael David Mizrachi (born January 5, 1981) is an American professional poker player.
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...
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...
David Williams
David Anthony Williams (born June 9, 1980) is a professional poker player and Magic: The Gathering player.
Brian Townsend
Brian Townsend is an American professional poker player.
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Dario Minieri
Dario Minieri (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdaːrjo minˈjɛːri]; born 1985) is an Italian professional poker player from Rome, Italy.
Jason Mercier
Jason Mercier (born November 12, 1986) is an American professional poker player from Hollywood, Florida.
Mike Matusow
Michael Matusow (born April 30, 1968 in Los Angeles, California) is an American professional poker player, residing in Henderson, Nevada.
Erick Lindgren
Erick A. Lindgren (born August 11, 1976 in Burney, California) is an American professional poker player.
Howard Lederer
Howard Henry Lederer (born October 30, 1963) is an American professional poker player.
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.
Phil Laak
Philip "Phil" C. Laak (born September 8, 1972) is an Irish-American professional poker player and a poker commentator
Andreas Høivold
Andreas Høivold (born 1972 in Sunderland, England), is a Norwegian professional poker player.
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.
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...
Gabe Kaplan
Gabriel W. "Gabe" Kaplan (born March 31, 1945) is an American comedian, actor, poker commentator, and professional poker player.
Dennis Phillips
Dennis N. Phillips (born December 1954) is a professional poker player from St Louis, Missouri.
Shawn Sheikhan
Shahram "Shawn" Sheikhan (born 1969 in Iran) is a professional poker player who currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Paul Wasicka
Paul J. Wasicka (born February 17, 1981 in Dallas, Texas) is a professional poker player.
Haralabos Voulgaris
Haralabos "Bob" Voulgaris (born 1975) is a Greek Canadian professional gambler, sports bettor, and sports book owner.
Mimi Tran
Thithi "Mimi" Tran (born July 5, 1960) is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player.
Patrik Antonius
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.
Daniel Shak
Daniel Shak (born May 7, 1959) is an American semi-professional poker player and hedge fund manager
Vanessa Selbst
Vanessa K. Selbst (born July 9, 1984) is an American professional poker player.
Ilari Sahamies
Ilari Sahamies (born 1983 in Helsinki, Finland), also known as Ziigmund, is a Finnish professional poker player.
Phil Ruffin
Phillip G. Ruffin (born 1936) is an American businessman. His business interests lie largely in casinos, greyhound racing tracks, oil production, convenience stores, and real estate.
Andrew Robl
Andrew Robl (born September 27, 1986) also known by his alias good2cu, is an American professional poker player from Okemos, Michigan.
Victor Ramdin
Annand Mahendra "Victor" Ramdin (born May 28, 1968 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a professional poker player.
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...
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...
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.
John D'Agostino
John D'Agostino (born November 3, 1982) is an American professional poker player.
Bill Chen
William "Bill" Chen (born 1970 in Williamsburg, Virginia) is an American quantitative analyst, poker player, and software designer.
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...
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).
Nick Cassavetes
Nicholas David Rowland "Nick" Cassavetes (Greek: Νικόλαος Δαβίδ Ρουλαντ "Νίκος" Κασσαβέτης; born May 21, 1959) is an American film actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker...
Todd Brunson
Todd Alan Brunson (born August 7, 1969) is an American professional poker player and the son of poker player Doyle Brunson.
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...
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
Dan Bilzerian
Dan Brandon Bilzerian (born December 7, 1980) is an American professional poker player, actor and internet social media personality.
David Benyamine
David Benyamine (born July 5, 1972 in Paris, France) is a French professional poker player with a World Poker Tour title.
Daniel Alaei
Daniel Christopher Alaei (born 1983) is a professional poker player from Santa Fe Springs, California. He is of Iranian descent.
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"...
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...
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...
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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