Poker Players
In Poker their are many broad types of players. You have the old guard. The very long term pros who have been around the block a few times. You might include in this
Doyle Brunson
Johnny Chan
Eric Seidel
Howard Lederer
Barry Greensein
You have the younger, but establised big name live pros like:
Daniel Negreanu
Phil Ivey
Gus Hansen
Allen Cunningham
Phil Hellmuth
Erick Lindgren
Layne Flack
You have the breakthrough players who are starting to pick up big tournament scores:
Jeff Madsen
Isaac Haxton
Annette Obrestad
Gavin Griffin
Isaac Baron
Jimmy Fricke
Jon Turner
Steve Billirakis
Mark Vos
Scott Clements
You have the one-hit wonders (not meant negatively, as this is still a good thing), who can ride the circuit for years off the back of one major score. You might include in this:
Robert Varkonyi
Chris Moneymaker
Jerry Yang
And you get the online pros. For example
Genius28
OMGClayAiken
Durrrr
APerfectGent
Legato
JohnnyBax
lilholdem954
Obviously you get a bit of overlap here and there, but they are the 5 main categories
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