Team FeltStars
Tyler "TylerSmith" Smith
Tyler is the newest poker pro to join our FeltStars team. Tyler is well known in the online poker world and has become a legend on the Merge Network with depositing $2000 and turning it into $157,000 in less than a months time. Tyler has now turned his online poker skills to the live events with huge wins and multiple final tables in WPT events. Tyler is destined to win a World Series of Poker Bracelet this year, with final tabling a WPT Main Event and winning the 2010 Beau Rivage Main Event Spring Classic on April 10, 2010. Tyler is known by everyone around him, as the the guy anyone can talk to. No matter what stakes you play, Tyler will talk strategy with anyone. He loves the game of poker, and is one of the best up and coming players in the World.
Danielle "HotAusChick2" Adams-Benham
Danielle Adams-Benham is a well known poker writer, radio presenter and poker personality. She is known for her writing with Australian Poker Weekly, Woman Poker Player, Womens Poker News, Canadian Poker Tour and a string of online websites and her very popular blog Poker Down Under and Every Where Else.
Danielle is primarily a cash game player but is known to have some good online tournament results. She is also a poker book author, the co-host of pokerpodradio & WTF Poker radio show which is her latest on air production.
Danielle can be found on both sides of the rail at a casino; playing or reporting. She is well renowned as Australia’s most well known female poker personality.
Jason "FeltStars " Lipscomb
I began my poker career by dealing private games in the back of smoke filled bar rooms around Hammond, La and all the way to Houston, Texas. Since then I have held just about every title known to man in the poker world from dealer, floor, WSOP Tournament Director and Poker room manager. At the age of 23 I dealt the final table for a WSOP event telvised on ESPN in New Orleans. After dealing the final table, I was offered the lead floor position in Tunica for their WSOP event. After the tournaments in Tunica, I was then offered a Lead Position at the WSOP in Vegas. I was one of the head supervisors at the RIO for all of the World Series of Poker events. I play on the site under the name "Feltstar" in the 1-2 up to the 25-50 Omaha games.
Poker Credentials
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Ken "DrCheckRaise" Callis
Ken "DrCheckRaise" Callis is a cash game specialist who can be found
playing at the HollyWood Casino in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, The Cherokee HardRock Casino near Tulsa, Oklahoma, and The
Ebro Poker Room in Panama City, Florida. N/L Texas Hold'em and Pot Limit Omaha cash games.
He writes a weekly column for Australian Poker Weekly titled "Poker Clinic" by DrCheckRaise. He is a frequent
contributor to Poker Pro Magazine, as well as Poker Insider Magazine. DrCheckRaise founded and runs, DrCheckRaise Poker
Forums at www.drcheckraise.com. Ken can be reached via e-mail
at admin@drcheckraise.com.
Benton "BootnTee" Blakeman
Benton started playing poker while attending college at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana during the fall of 2001. It was during this time that a family friend who had been playing for years took him under his wing and taught him the ins and outs of the daily grind. Almost immediately Benton consistently beat the $4-$8 limit game at the local bar where he played every night, as well as the games at the casinos in New Orleans where he would travel to several times a week in search of action. Upon graduating college in December of 2002, Benton, at the young age of 21, packed up his car and moved to Las Vegas. Throughout the last 5 years he has concentrated on playing in cash games, primarily No-Limit Hold Em, both in casinos around the country and online. Although he has put up impressive cash game numbers, he has also put up some very impressive tournament results both online and live as well, racking up $200,000 in cashes.
Tournament Results
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Benton can be found playing four to eight tables of $1-$2 to $5-$10 No Limit cash games online, and $5-$10 to $10-$25 No Limit cash games at the casinos. Benton currently resides in Houston, Texas with his girlfriend Kim and their two dogs Virginia and Henry. He still travels to Las Vegas and Los Angeles several months out of the year. His screename on FeltStars is "BootnTee" and he can be reached at bootnteepoker@yahoo.com. Feel free to email poker questions to him or inquire about private lessons.
Lamar "sheshu" Hampton
In my early poker days, I lived in Vegas and played poker most every day with poker legend Johnny Moss. Through the years I have played a lot of poker with Dewey Tomko, Doyle Brunson, Amarillo Slim, Puggy Pearson, Auston Squatet, OK Johnny Hale, Barry Greenstein and Sammy Farha.
When Mississippi opened up the casinos, I drove 1000 miles every week to the Grand in Gulfport to play Pot Limit with many players who are on the Pro Trail today.
Some of my greatest poker accomplishments include:
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I have had numerous tournament finishes in the money, including finishing 2nd to World Champion Jack Keller at the World Poker Open in MS. My best game is HORSE.
In 2003 poker playing took on a new persona and really exploded when Chris Moneymaker won the WSOP. With online poker and so many talented younger players, poker today is somewhat different from the "old school poker" that I learned. It has been interesting to see how the younger players have changed the game since the years when I was ranked as #5 in the world for Stud, Stud Hi-Lo and Razz.
All these years poker still has the same thrill for me whether I am playing live action or online.
Stay lucky and I'll see you at the tables.
