Bob Buckenmayer has been playing poker since he was a teenager. But it was only when he discovered WPT Boot Camp that his game turned serious. First he became a serious cash game player, earning such a substantial...more
A retired pawnbroker in Westerly, Rhode Island, Bob Carbone never expected to find himself on television, playing down the Final Table at the World Poker Tour’s Foxwoods event. A successful cash-game player who helped...more
When Sean Jazayeri enrolled in WPT Boot Camp, he had one goal: to improve his poker game. A dedicated student, Sean didn’t just stop with one WPT Boot Camp. He took three: Tournament Camp, the...more
When Lee Childs took his first WPT Boot Camp he had an online tournament Return on Investment (ROI) of negative 88 percent. Basically, that means for every dollar he invested in a tournament, he lost 88 cents! Although...more
Marguerite Spagnuolo has been playing poker since she was seven years old, when her dad ran a weekly home game in the family basement. She grew up playing hold’em, which her father called “52"—five on the board...more
Joe Sidoryk is the co-owner of Phoenix Display International, a company that designs and makes LCD modules. He’s also a serious online poker player who has cashed for more than $1 million in multitable tournament play...more
Tom O’Neal’s poker journey has lasted more than 16 years, starting with a home game and culminating at the final table of a World Series of Poker $1500 bracelet event. He still recalls his first encounter with...more
Kelli Shields had played for several years in home games and at her local bar league in Fort Worth. But the real turning point in her poker play came when she took a WPT Boot Camp. “It was such a wonderful...more
"Virginia” Bob Hoy has been playing poker since he was 10 years old. But he says that it wasn’t until he took a course with WPT Boot Camp that he began “really playing the game the way the game should be...more
David Souter’s first real poker experience came as a young man visiting his uncle in South Dakota, when he played limit lowball at the local cardrooms. He set himself to learn the game, reading everything he could find, and...more
Bob Talbot had been a serious cash game player for more than five years. Since he retired from his job as a city employee in Fort Worth, Texas, he’d been playing poker 40 to 50 hours a week at one of the five local cardrooms...more
Lynne Mitchnick had run her own highly successful market research company for seven years when she first considered getting serious about poker. Not sure how committed she wanted to be, she took her first WPT Boot Camp in...more
James Jewell’s day job is an automated machine operator for the U.S. Postal Service in Fort Worth. For the past several years, poker was a fairly serious hobby. Then James final-tabled the WSOP Seniors Event and...more
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WPT Boot Camp Will Take Your Game To The Next Level Like any serious player, I’m always looking to learn...more
If you saw Gavin Smith playing a tournament, you’d think he was having the time of his life. He laughs, jokes, and banters with the other players, all the while pulling in pot after massive pot—the...more
