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Jim Meehan
Jim Meehan
Nickname(s)	Minneapolis Jim, Silent Jim
Residence	Minneapolis, Minnesota
World Series of Poker
Bracelet(s)	1
Money finish(es)	19
Highest ITM Main Event finish	195th, 2005
World Poker Tour
Title(s)	None
Final table(s)	1
Money finish(es)	1

"Minneapolis" Jim Meehan (born March 19 in Saint Paul, Minnesota) is an American professional poker player from Burnsville, Minnesota. Prior to his poker career, Meehan worked as a lawyer for many years.

Meehan began playing poker in the 1960s, and began playing poker tournaments regularly in 1997, when he had a 2nd place finish in the $3,000 limit hold'em event at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). He finished 3rd in the $2,500 limit Omaha event at the 1999 WSOP.

He eventually won a WSOP bracelet in 2003 in the $2,000 no limit hold'em event, defeating a final table that included Juha Helppi, Antonio Esfandiari, Mike Sexton and Kathy Liebert. He also won a World Championship of Online Poker bracelet that same year in the $500 Buy In Limit Holdem event, besting a field of almost 700.

Meehan has made one World Poker Tour (WPT) final table, during the third season. He finished in 6th place at a final table including Eli Elezra, Lee Watkinson, Gabe Kaplan, John Juanda and Scotty Nguyen.

He also made the final table of the Ultimate Poker Challenge first season championship. Meehan entered the seven-handed TV table as the short stack but finished in 3rd place despite being given a time penalty for foul language. He was eliminated by the eventual winner, James Van Alstyne.

Meehan's character at the poker table is often categorized by drinking alcohol at the poker table, particularly Heineken beer or whiskey, and keeping an unlit cigarette in his mouth. He also makes a habit of engaging his opponents in banter between and during hands.

He has played online at PokerStars as Actiondonkey and at ParadisePoker as Actionmonkey.

As of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,300,000. His 19 cashes as the WSOP account for $648,224 of those winnings.^[1]

He has four children.

External links[link]

• World Poker Tour profile
• Hendon Mob tournament results

Notes[link]

1. ^ World Series of Poker Earnings, worldseriesofpoker.com

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Laird Hamilton
Personal information
Born	(1964-03-02) March 2, 1964 (age 48) San Francisco, California, USA
Residence	Maui, Malibu
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight	215 lb (98 kg)
Surfing career
Years active	1970–present
Sponsors	Oxbow, Amway
Major achievements	Co-invented Tow-in surfing. August 17, 2000 at Teahupo'o heaviest wave ever ridden successfully.
Surfing specifications
Stance	Regular Foot
Quiver	Long boards
Favorite waves	Teahupo'o, Pipeline
Website	lairdhamilton.com

Laird Hamilton (born March 2, 1964) is an American big-wave surfer, co-inventor of tow-in surfing, and an occasional fashion and action-sports model. He is married to Gabrielle Reece, a professional volleyball player, television personality, and model. Hamilton and his family split their time between residences in Maui, Hawaii, and Malibu, California.

Early life[link]

Laird was born Laird John Zerfas in San Francisco on March 2, 1964, in an experimental salt-water sphere at UCSF Medical Center designed to ease the mother's labor.^[1] His Greek birth father, L. G. Zerfas, left the family before his first birthday. While he was an infant, Laird and his mother, Joann (née Zyirek), moved to Hawaii. While still a young boy living on Oahu, Laird met with 1960s surfer Bill Hamilton, a bachelor at the time, on Pūpūkea beach on the North Shore. Bill Hamilton was a surfboard shaper and glasser on Oahu in the 1960s and 1970s and owned a small business handmaking custom, high-performance surfboards for the Oahu North Shore big wave riders of the era. The two became immediate companions. The young Laird invited Bill Hamilton home to meet his mother. Bill Hamilton married Laird's then-single mother, becoming Laird's adoptive father.^[2]

The family later moved to a remote valley on Kauaʻi island. Joann and Bill had a second son, Lyon, Laird's half-brother, who also became a surfer. Laird's mother died of a brain aneurysm in 1997.^[3]

Hamilton had a reputation for an aggressive demeanor around others of his age. This hostile attitude was in part due to Laird and his brother Lyon being bigger than their classmates, fair-skinned, and blonde: unusual in their predominantly Hawaiian-populated neighborhood. The role of the outsider profoundly affected Laird through to his teen years and early adult life. He became used to this role and was uncomfortable being in the center of anything. He was also known for his physical and mental toughness.^[4] Laird was shown in footage jumping off a 60-foot cliff into deep water at 7 years old.

Modeling[link]

When 16, Hamilton left eleventh grade at Kapaa High School to pursue a modeling career and work in construction. At 17, Hamilton was discovered on a beach in Kauaʻi by a photographer from the Italian Men's Vogue magazine L'Uomo Vogue which landed him a modeling contract and later a 1983 photo shoot with the actress Brooke Shields.^[2][5] Hamilton continued to do occasional men's action sportswear print modeling.

In 2008 Hamilton announced his own "Wonderwall" line of affordable clothing, sold through Steve & Barry's^[6] until that retailer shut down at the end of January 2009. He has had long-time sponsorship from the French beachwear company Oxbow surfwear.^[7]

Surfing career[link]

1980s[link]

Pipeline on the north shore of Oahu where Hamilton grew up

By the age of 17, Hamilton had become an accomplished surfer and could have left modeling to pursue a career on surfing's World Championship Tour. However, competitive surfing and contests never appealed to Hamilton, who had watched his father Bill endure the competitive surfing contest politics and the random luck of the waves in organized championship surfing events. Bill Hamilton regarded surfing more as a work of art, rather than based chiefly on wave-by-wave ride performance scored by judges.

In the 1987 movie North Shore, Hamilton played the violent, antagonistic role of "Lance Burkhart". Despite further success in modeling during the 1980s, Hamilton, with his professional surfing upbringing, always intended a life of surfing, but continued to reject the professional contest circuit.

In 1989 Laird featured in windsurfing movie "Moving Target" alongside Fred Haywood.Moving Target clip on stableroad

1990s[link]

An early attempt at media recognition was his quest to be the first surfer to complete a 360 degree loop while strapped to his board. The attempt was chronicled in Greg Stump's 1990 ski film, Groove - Requiem in the key of Ski. In the early 1990s, Hamilton, along with a small group of friends collectively dubbed the "Strapped Crew" because their feet were strapped to their boards, pushed the boundaries of surfing at Jaws surf break off the north central coast of Maui. The Strapped Crew tackled bigger waves featuring stunts. Stunts included: launching 30-foot (9.1 m) jumps on sailboards, then mating the boards to paragliders to experiment with some of the earliest kiteboards.^[8]

In late 1992, Hamilton with two of his close friends, big wave riders Darrick Doerner and Buzzy Kerbox (also an occasional men's fashion model; Hamilton and Kerbox later lost their friendship over a property disagreement),^[3] started using inflatable boats to tow one another into waves which were too big to catch under paddle power alone. This innovation is chronicled in the documentary film, Riding Giants.^[4] The technique would later be modified to use personal water craft and become a popular innovation. Tow-in surfing, as it became known, pushed the confinements and possibilities of big wave surfing to a new level. Although met with mixed reactions from the surfing community, some of whom felt that it was cheating and polluting, Hamilton explained that tow-in surfing was the only way to catch the monstrous sized waves. Using tow-in surfing methods, Hamilton learned how to survive 70-foot (21 m) waves and carving arcs across walls of water.^{[citation needed]}

In 1995 Hamilton met women's professional volleyball player and New York fashion model Gabrielle Reece in Los Angeles, California after a television interview. They later married on November 30, 1997. In 1996, People magazine named Hamilton one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World, and in the same year Hamilton pushed for and took from his future wife the correspondent position for the syndicated cable series 'The Extremists'.^[5] In 1989 Reece had been named by Elle magazine as one of the Five Most Beautiful Women in the World.^{[citation needed]}

By the late 1990s, Hamilton continued with windsurfing, waterskiing and kitesurfing. In 1996 Hamilton and Manu Bertin were instrumental in demonstrating and popularizing kitesurfing off the Hawaiian coast of Maui. In 1999 Hamilton sailed his windsurfer between the Hawaiian islands of Oahu and Kauaʻi, some fifty miles away, in just under six hours..^{[citation needed]}

Hamilton has also experimented with the foilboard, an innovative surfboard which incorporates hydrofoil technology allowing a higher degree of precision and effectiveness of aerial techniques within the water.^[9] He has become a proponent of Stand up paddle surfing, an ancient Hawaiian technique that requires a longboard and a long-handled paddle, as well as considerable skill, strength and agility. Purist surfers have blasted him for this, but Hamilton calls it a return to the traditional Hawaiian way of surfing, as practiced by King Kamehameha I and his queen Kaʻahumanu almost three hundred years ago.

[edit] Ride at Teahupoʻo Reef

Hamilton has a family home in Maui, Hawaii and another in Malibu, California

Hamilton's drop into Tahiti's Teahupoʻo break on the morning of August 17, 2000 firmly established him in the recorded history of surfing. Teahupoʻo is a particularly hazardous shallow-water reef break southeast of the Pacific Island of Tahiti.^[10]

On that day, with a larger than normal ocean swell, Darrick Doerner piloted the watercraft, towing Hamilton. Pulling in and releasing the tow rope, Hamilton drove down into the well of the wave's enormous tunnel vortex, in full view of boat-based photographers' and videographers' cameras. With his signature artistic flair, Hamilton continued deeply carving water, emerging back over the wave's shoulder. A still photograph of him riding the wave made the cover of Surfer magazine, with the caption: "oh my god..."^[11] The wave became known as "the heaviest ever ridden".^[10]

Laird on a personal watercraft at Teahupoʻo

In the filmed coverage of this event in the motion picture Riding Giants, Doerner said "I towed him onto this wave. And it was to the point where I almost said 'Don't let go of the rope,' and when I looked back he was gone."^[12]

Hamilton is regarded by surfing historians as the "all time best of the best" at big wave surfing, regularly surfing swells of 35 feet (11 m) tall, and moving at speeds in excess of 30 miles (48 km) an hour and successfully riding other waves of up to 70 feet (21 m) high, at up to 50 mph (80 km/h).^{[citation needed]} Hamilton prefers tow-in surfing the giant waves of Peʻahi reef (known as the Jaws surf break) on the north central shore of the Island of Maui.

2000s[link]

In 2007, when Brett Lickle was towing Hamilton into a wave on the Maui north shore, a wave knocked him from the watercraft. The fin on the surfboard sliced Lickle, causing him to bleed into the sea, which he feared would attract sharks. Hamilton swam to recover the watercraft, and fashioned his swimsuit as a tourniquet. Hamilton then piloted the craft back to a landing, naked, where Lickle was taken to a hospital to recover.^[13]

Hamilton in 2010

In February 2008 Hamilton joined the board of directors of H2O Audio, a watersports music company in San Diego California. He had used H2O Audio products on many of his long distance paddling endeavors before joining the company.^[14] Later in 2008 he published a book which he describes as not an autobiography, but discussing his philosophy of life.^[15]

Despite being one of the best known surfers since the time of Duke Kahanamoku, the matured Hamilton avoids self-promotion. He serves as an ambassador of surfing and watersports and occasional lifeguard to other tow-in surfers.

Hamilton is also an environmental activist. He joined a protest in Malibu against a proposed plant that was to be built in the area, which would affect the quality of the water. Other celebrities attended the event including Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry and Ted Danson.

Personal life[link]

Hamilton was previously married to Maria Souza. They have a daughter, Izabella,^[16] born in 1995.

Hamilton and second wife Gabrielle Reece have two children together, daughters Reece Viola Hamilton (born in October 2003), and Brody Jo Hamilton (born January 1, 2008 in Hawaii). According to Reece, the Hamilton family splits time living in residences in Hawaii and California.^[17] The popular press^{[which?][vague]} describes Hamilton and wife Gabrielle as part of the "Malibu Mob", a celebrity group in the same vein as the Brat Pack. Other Malibu Mob members include Chris Chelios, John Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, John C. McGinley, Tony Danza, Justin Long, Ed O'Neill, Max Wright and tennis star John McEnroe.^[18]

Hamilton is related to surfer Bethany Hamilton.

Other media appearances[link]

Hamilton was featured in American Express credit card television commercials; an early 2000s commercial in the series "Hi, you probably wouldn't recognize my name . . . " and more recently in the American Express "My life, my card" commercial series.^[19][20]

Hamilton was a central figure in the 2004 documentary Riding Giants about giant wave surfing; and the opening sequence of the 2002 James Bond movie Die Another Day, as Pierce Brosnan's big-wave surfing double (shared with Dave Kalama). He appeared in Waterworld, as Kevin Costner's stunt double in numerous water scenes.[1]

In October 2006, Hamilton and Dave Kalama biked and paddled the entire Hawaiian Island chain—more than 450 miles—in a week. The feat was featured on Don King's film, A Beautiful Son, in support of those afflicted with autism.^[21] He appeared on the cover of the Men's Journal April 2006 issue.^[22]

In 2007, Hamilton, along with his wife Gabrielle Reece, appeared in the ABC reality television series Fast Cars and Superstars: The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race, featuring a dozen celebrities in a stock car racing competition.^[23] In the first round of competition, Hamilton matched up against tennis star Serena Williams and former NFL quarterback John Elway. Hamilton was eliminated in episode 5.

He appeared in the Sundance Channel television show Iconoclasts with Eddie Vedder from the popular American rock band Pearl Jam.^[24]

Footage of Hamilton is used on the video for Dayvan Cowboy from Boards of Canada. In 2003, he was featured in Dana Brown's surf documentary Step Into Liquid. On January 13, 2010, Hamilton and wife Reece appeared as themselves on the episode "Gary Feels Tom Slipping Away" of the CBS television series Gary Unmarried.

He was a special guest star as himself in the animated television show Phineas and Ferb. He was also interviewed as part of the Australian documentary Bra Boys: Blood Is Thicker Than Water.

Hamilton had a minor role as Troy in The Descendants. His character was central to the story's plot.

Hamilton also was the Celebrity on the Volvo Ocean Race Boat Puma Powered by Berg. He did a spectacular exit off the boat by diving off it as it was at full speed.

In February, 2012, Hamilton was featured in Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN)'s production of Oprah Presents Master Class, in which he shared his life and life philosophies with the audience.

Works[link]

• Laird Hamilton (2010) [2008]. Force of Nature: Mind, Body, Soul, And, of Course, Surfing. Rodale Books. ISBN 978-1-60961-102-6. 

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Jenkins, Bruce (Fall, 1997). "Laird Hamilton: 20th Century Man". The Surfer's Journal 6 (3). http://www.surfersjournal.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TSJ&Product_Code=BI06-3&Category_Code= .
• Candus Thomson (November 29, 2004). "After shooting curls, he's chilling". The Baltimore Sun. http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2004-11-29/sports/0411290087_1_laird-hamilton-bobsled-chelios. Retrieved December 2, 2010. 
• Warshaw, Matt (2003). Maverick's: The Story of Big-Wave Surfing. Chronicle Books. ISBN 0-8118-4159-6. OCLC 223979881 
• Susan Casey (September 14, 2010). The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean. Random House. ISBN 978-0-7679-2884-7. 

External links[link]

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• Gabby Reece. "Laird Life". Laird Hamilton family web site. http://www.lairdhamilton.com/. Retrieved December 1, 2010. 
• "Laird Hamilton Interview". Men's Journal. September 27, 2010. http://www.mensjournal.com/laird-hamilton-interview. Retrieved December 1, 2010. 
• Laird Hamilton's Myspace page
• Jeff Ho. "Laird Hamilton Interview". Juice Magazine (57). http://www.juicemagazine.com/lairdhamilton.html. Retrieved December 1, 2010. 
• "Laird Hamilton: Biography". Celebrity biography web site. TVGuide.Com. http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/laird-hamilton/bio/161151. Retrieved December 1, 2010. 
• Laird Hamilton at the Internet Movie Database
• Another set of photographs of Laird Hamilton riding "The Wave" at Teahupoo, August 17, 2000, by Tim McKenna
• YouTube: Riding Giants = Laird Hamilton riding "The Wave"
• Laird Hamilton profiled on clubofthewaves.com