About Us

The PokerOrg team

We are a team of passionate and experienced poker journalists, players, influencers, and fans with hundreds of years of combined experience in the industry, and we employ the very best freelance creators in the space.

The PokerOrg editorial team is 100% independent and we will always write what we believe is right, unswayed by any commercial interests. Everyone on the PokerOrg team is passionate about poker. We’ll only ever produce content that we think is right for the players and good for the game. That is our promise to you.

Brad Willis

Editor-in-chief

Brad Willis was the founder of the PokerStars Blog, where he worked for almost 18 years before joining PokerOrg as our new Editor-in-chief. He's traveled the world reporting on the biggest tournaments, and he's passionate about elevating the game and providing players with the very best independent content. He won Media Content of the Year at the 2014 GPI American Poker Awards.

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Sarah Herring

Head of Instant Media

Sarah Herring won Poker Journalist of the Year in 2018 at the Global Poker Awards, and is now Head of Instant Media at PokerOrg. Sarah is at the forefront of our efforts to change poker media. Players want to consume media in different ways and Sarah is working across platforms and our own Instant Feeds so that you can experience the very best of the poker world from your own home – as if you were there.

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Dave Woods

Content Director

Dave Woods launched PokerPlayer magazine back in 2005 and has been a passionate advocate of the game ever since. Since leaving PokerPlayer, Woods has helped restructure and redesign The Big Issue and helped launch Sports Illustrated in India, but poker was always calling and all roads led to PokerOrg. Woods lives on the outskirts of London with his wife, daughter and cat.

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Adam Hampton

Senior Content Editor

Adam Hampton first learned poker aged 12, playing goofy wildcard games for matchsticks, only discovering Texas hold'em years later thanks to the UK's 'Late Night Poker' TV broadcasts. He's been playing, thinking and writing about poker ever since, working for brands including PokerStars, Full Tilt, Replay Poker, CardPlayer Lifestyle and CardsChat. Adam lives in London with his wife, kids, and a cat called Mojo.

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Mo Afdhal

News Writer

Mo Afdhal studied screenwriting at New York University and worked in film after graduating. During the pandemic, his passion for poker reignited. Thanks to a timely tweet from Joe Stapleton, he found his way to PokerOrg and hasn’t looked back since. Mo is originally from Boston, but currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. When he’s not writing, he enjoy movies, books with good titles, walks through the concrete jungle, and tipping the cage cashier. Writer by trade, poker player by daydream.

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Craig Tapscott

Sage Scribe

Craig Tapscott has been a regularly featured columnist for Card Player Magazine for the past seventeen years, as well as contributing poker content to FOXSports.com during the height of its poker broadcasts. He now spends his time working with PokerOrg, delivering player-rich content such as The Interview.

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Mike Patrick

Senior Live Events Reporter

Originally from Edmonton, Alberta, via Victoria, BC, and now residing in Toronto, Ontario, PokerOrg Senior Live Events Reporter Mike Patrick is a proud Canadian who loves his hockey but risks deportation for his belief that Tim Horton’s coffee and donuts are mid at best.

With a background in broadcast journalism, Mike moved from a career in sports television to poker media in 2021. Since then, he has traveled the world, reporting on major poker events including the WSOP, WPT, EPT, and more.

While he of course enjoys the Cadillac of poker, Mike really appreciates a diverse garage with mixed games capturing much of his poker-loving heart, both playing and having reported on many prestigious events, with the $50,000 Poker Player’s Championship at the top of the list.

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Lee Jones

Correspondent

Lee has been playing poker since the mid-1980s and authored the popular strategy book, "Winning Low-Limit Hold'em". He joined PokerStars in 2003 as the poker room manager, and held multiple roles there until 2019. He has published hundreds of poker articles in print and online, and loves the game more than anybody.

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Will Thomas

Deputy Head of Instant

Starting as a music video director in the early 2000s, Will Thomas expanded into films, commercials, and social media content. In 2009, he entered the poker world, producing content for platforms like PokerNews and the World Poker Tour. He later led content creation for the DeepStacks Poker Tour. Amid the 2020 pandemic, he returned to directing, earning recognition for his films, including Best Comedy at the Anaheim International Film Festival and Utah Film Festival. Will's understanding of creating standout content helps give PokerOrg its unique style.

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Tiffany Michelle

Player & Creator

Named one of the Most Fascinating People in Poker, Tiffany Michelle is a female trailblazer in the poker industry. At age 22, she was the first female on-camera host ever hired by the world’s largest poker media site. Two years later, she broke records for the largest live tournament field conquered by a woman and became one of poker’s Top 10 Female Money Earners of All Time, under age 30. She went on to win a WSOP gold ring, compete on The Amazing Race and build a versatile poker career as a player, host/presenter, TV personality and content producer.

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Chris 'Lefty' Land

Content King

Better known as ‘Lefty’, Chris Land first played poker in college, buying in for $5 and leaving with $47, and was instantly hooked. He was hit by a truck while riding a motorcycle the day before he turned 21 and lost his right arm, along with his aspirations to become a high-performance engine mechanic. To make ends meet, he dove head first into the cash game scene in the backrooms of bars around metro Atlanta. Lefty now considers himself an MTT specialist, and lives in the north Georgia mountains with his wife and two sons.

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Eric Lusch

Media Maestro

Eric Lusch is a media professional living in Minnesota who has been working in the poker industry since 2014. After graduating from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, he began his career as a media intern for the World Series of Poker. Eric rose to a Media Supervisor position, with a focus on the WSOP Circuit, before getting recruited by the World Poker Tour in 2022. Now, he brings his live event media experience to PokerOrg.

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Jo Kim

Content Baddie

As a poker pro since 2010, Jo Kim has been involved in various aspects of the poker industry, including charity organizations, poker media, streams, TV, ambassadorships, affiliate projects, coaching, commentary, and journalism. Since 2022, she has also been a content creator on YouTube and other social media platforms.

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Samuel Hellman

Product Director

Samuel started playing poker too young, most memorably at Circus Circus, where one tablemate noted he was “younger than the food in her freezer.” That setback aside, he went on to work with the braintrust behind Late Night Poker, covering the WSOP at the dawn of the poker boom, producing TV series for the Poker Channel, and eventually directing marketing operations at PokerStars and driving digital transformation at Flutter. He lives in Valencia, Spain, with his two children, two dogs, and one wife.

Aaron Peters

The Commish
Aaron Peters has been leveling up gaming brands for over a decade, helping giants like GGPoker and PokerStars turn strategy into success. From scaling affiliate programs to negotiating high-value commercial deals, his job is to keep the rest of the team living in the manner they're accustomed to.

Chris Herd

Brand Guy

Chris was the Global Creative Director of PokerStars from 2006 to 2019. He claims his mission is to make brands stand out from the crowd, make them stand for something powerful, and then force them to live up to it. But basically, he just designs nice logos and t-shirts – from the 'red spade with a star in it' for PokerStars to the ‘red spade turned upside down’ for PokerOrg. So a bit of a one-trick pony, really.

Eric Hollreiser

Founder & CEO

Former PokerStars executive, Eric Hollreiser acquired PokerOrg in 2022. Eric wants to build PokerOrg into a new poker media powerhouse that truly reflects the changing media world, and one that reflects the voice of poker players around the world. Eric started his career as a journalist and understands the importance of independence for news sites.

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