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Bruno Fitoussi (born September 21, 1958) is a French professional poker player from Paris.
Fitoussi's first televised poker outing was on the original poker show Late Night Poker. He finished 7th in his heat, which also featured Surinder Sunar, Peter "The Bandit" Evans and Donnacha O'Dea.
In 2001, Fitoussi won the World Heads-Up Poker Championship, defeating Amarillo Slim in the Grand Final.
In 2003, Fitoussi finished in 8th place in the first World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship. He also finished 15th in the $10,000 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event.
In 2005, Fitoussi finished 2nd in the $1,500 Seven Card Razz event.
In 2007, Fitoussi finished 2nd to Freddy Deeb in the $50,000 WSOP H.O.R.S.E event, winning $1,278,720.
As of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,300,000. His 8 cashes at the WSOP account for $1,516,167 of those winnings.
Fitoussi also works as an architect and plays the stock market. He has also worked as a music publisher and producer, and is currently the President of VIP-Gaming.
Gregory Raymer (born June 25, 1964, in Minot, North Dakota) nicknamed "Fossilman," is a professional poker player. He is best known for winning the 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event.
Raymer's family moved numerous times during his childhood, from his birthplace to Lansing, MI, where he lived until age 10. He then moved to Clearwater, Florida, attending Dunedin Middle School, and then to St. Louis, Missouri.
After Raymer graduated from Parkway South High School in St. Louis, he enrolled at the University of Missouri–Rolla, where he majored in chemistry and became a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a Masters Degree in Biochemistry in 1989, and then again from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1992. He then practiced law as a patent attorney for more than a decade, spending the last six years of his legal career at the pharmaceutical company Pfizer.
Raymer is nicknamed "Fossilman" because of his hobby of collecting fossils. He uses a small fossil as a card protector while he plays poker.
Fabrice Soulier (born April 23, 1969 in Avignon, France) is a professional poker player with over $3.2 Million in live poker tournament winnings and won his first bracelet in the 2011 World Series of Poker $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship.
He was director of the French TV series Farce Attaque (Farce Attack) and Un gars, une fille (A Guy, A Girl) before focusing only on poker. He now lives in Las Vegas. He also has been one of the poker teacher for the French show NRJ Pokerstars with Bertrand "Elky"Grospellier. Then he created the website www.madeinpoker.fr which is an information site. In 2009, He cashed in the money for the first time in the $10,000 Main Event finishing in 49th place out of a field of 6,494 players, earning $138,568
As of 2011, his total live tournament winnings exceed $3,290,000.