About Me

I used to run a website called thepokerdb.com, which provides tournament statistics on online poker players at PartyPoker, PokerStars, UB, Bodog and FTP. The site has been a huge hit in the online poker world over the last few years — there are around 130,000 worldwide users of thepokerdb and the site receives millions of page views a month. However, I sold the site to BLUFF Magazine in December 2006 (more specifically, I sold the site to Bluff Media, which owns/runs a lot of things other than the “flagship” magazine). One example of a BLUFF Media owned property is FIGHT Magazine. We completely redid the site as the design was a few years old and I’ve had a lot of good ideas and user suggestions come across my screen in that time period. I’ve since moved on from working with BLUFF on a regular basis although I still communicate suggestions to them every once in awhile.

I’ve also gotten involved in a number of other projects, including PSDollars.com, thepokerfilm, DonkBluff.com and, of course, this blog. While I don’t have a complete and official repository for all of my pictures, I have taken a ton of pictures over the years at live poker events — and many pictures that were the “first ever” published picture of many of today’s online stars. One day I will collect all of them and put a complete gallery up somewhere. I also was heavily involved in the Absolute Poker cheating investigation that took place in October 2007.

In January 2008 I started working with large poker affiliate company that goes by the name Protos Marketing (PM). PM operates a bunch of websites — most of which are related to online poker in some way. Some of the better known sites are PocketFives, BonusWhores, PokerSource, ThisIsTheNuts, PokerTerms.com and PokerSoftware.com. I moved to Costa Rica to work from the Protos Marketing offices and I lived in Costa Rica for a little over a year. In March 2009, I moved to Grand Cayman along with a few of my business partners but our main offices stayed in Costa Rica. I’ve now lived in Cayman for about a year and I am really enjoying it. My primary focus at the company right now is working on a redesign of PocketFives along with various optimization improvements on sites company-wide.

(Last Update: 2/26/2010)