A nationally-touring headline comedian, Fred earned a prominent spot in mainstream media while travelling and performing alongside top entertainers. During his 20 years in comedy, he shared the stage with a Who’s Who of American Comedy, including Jerry Seinfeld, Steven Wright, George Carlin, and Louie Anderson. During his acting career, Bevill appeared on such television shows as Beverly Hills 90210 and Saved by the Bell.

It was selected Book-of-the-Month by Sports Illustrated (“insight into the pressure-cooker atmosphere of a big-money card room”) and Texas Monthly (“a detailed account of the big money hold ‘em experiences of Texas banker Andy Beal”) and called, by The New York Review of Books, “a fascinating account of what happened.”

His second poker book, which he edited and wrote with a dozen poker professionals, The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide: Tournament Edition (Grand Central 2007) is in its sixth printing. As evidence of the poker skills revealed within, Michael points to the nearly $1 million he earned in live and online poker tournaments, along with three World Series of Poker final tables, since its publication.

Craig has also written memorable feature articles and columns for Card Player and Bluff, and written over 1,000,000 words in 4 years for The Full Tilt Poker Blog by Michael Craig.

Before writing about poker, Michael Craig graduated with a B.A. in History from Wayne State University and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform. For twenty years, he was a member of the Illinois, Northern District of Illinois, and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals bars, during most of which time he was a founding partner in a law firm focusing on financial and securities class-action litigation.

He retired from active law practice in 2000, wrote a pair of books about business and finance, and published articles in Cigar Aficionado, Penthouse, American Spectator, Golf, T & L Golf, Golf Connoisseur, Online Investor, and Business 2.0.

He lives with his family in Scottsdale, Arizona.

He has a pair of bachelor degrees in Computer Engineering and Management Science. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the UC San Diego. EpicPoker.com was interested in having Mark continue some of the writing he had done Pokerati and Sparta Poker, analyzing developments in poker from the perspective of those most affected.

When Mark’s not working toward his Ph.D., considering a career in computer research, or writing about poker, he plays NLHE and Mixed cash games in San Diego poker rooms.

He is a successful high-stakes mixed-game player in Atlantic City and Las Vegas, and the World Series of Poker's most consistent performer in big-money mixed-game tournaments. His career results and biography are available on his Epic Poker player page.

Matt welcomes your questions, comments, and suggestions at MattGlantz@gmail.com.

Martin has reported on tournaments at the World Series of Poker, World Poker Tour, the European Poker Tour, Latin American Poker Tour, and North American Poker Tour on four continents. He has written for PokerNews, the PokerStars blog, Betfair Poker, and Woman Poker Player. Harris earned a Ph.D. in English, has taught writing, literature, and film, and currently teaches an American Studies class, “Poker in American Film and Culture.” He is also author of the novel, Same Difference.

Currently, she writes the Law & Legislation column for EpicPoker.com, as well as player biographies. In her spare time, she is the copy editor for Bluff Magazine and writes for the PokerStars blog, PokerPages, Poker Player Newspaper, and Woman Poker Player. She also enjoys being an amateur chef and documenting cooking endeavors on her personal blog at A Year of Culinary Curiosity. Sometimes, she even sleeps. She can be found on Twitter as @WriterJen.

Allen left a long career in the IT industry to become the main force behind Full Tilt's Poker from the Rail before joining forces with the Epic Poker League. He will also be joining the Live Update Team, which will bring all the action from each Epic Poker League event.

As “Shaniac” on PokerStars, he won more than forty NLHE rebuy tournaments. He made two final tables in rebuy events, at the 2005 and 2007 WSOP, and won one of the wildest rebuy events ever, at the LAPC at the Commerce in February 2006, where the initial buy-in of $300 brought him a first prize of over $219,000. Overall, Schleger has cashed over $2.5 million online and more than $1 million in live events, including a WPT final table in 2007.

Over the years, Shane has also developed a reputation as a sharp commentator and contributor to the largest online poker community, Two-Plus-Two.

Bill contributes poker content to a variety of poker and gaming sites like PokerInside.com and Gosugamers.net where he creates daily news articles, strategy articles, poker player profiles, and interviews.

Bill developed and runs PokerCurious.com to serve beginning and improving players seeking to access helpful information easily and accelerate their foothold in the poker world.

A well-traveled family man, Bill ran an international gallery and sculpture garden for twelve years before entering the poker world in his late thirties.

Bill recently finished second to Annie Duke in the 2011 World Series of Poker Media Event, where he had the opportunity to learn about the Epic Poker League and all it was doing for the players. He is excited to contribute his thoughts and perspective about the poker world's interaction with social media. You can follow Bill on Twitter @pokercurious.

He recently worked in Moscow, running the writing staff of the Russian version of Married… with Children, and in Tel Aviv, consulting on the Israeli version of The Golden Girls. He has created situation comedies in Romania and Switzerland, and travels regularly to Nicaragua, where he builds social-action dramas to provide positive role modeling for the poor, young, and disenfranchised of that embattled country.

John is also well known as the author of The Comic Toolbox: How to be Funny Even if You're Not and Creativity Rules! These seminal books on writing comedy for television and film continues to be definitive sources of information and inspiration for writers from Santa Monica to Scandinavia.

Vorhaus also has extensive expertise in poker, having written six Killer Poker books, and the new Decide to Play Great Poker, co-authored with poker great Annie Duke.

Additionally, John Vorhaus has written three novels, Under the Gun, and the “sunshine noir” mystery novels The California Roll and The Albuquerque Turkey, featuring the adventures of world-class con artist Radar Hoverlander.

Vorhaus is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and a member of the Writers Guild of America. He has consulted to Walt Disney Feature Animation and taught at Northwestern University, the American Film Institute, and the Writers Program of the UCLA Extension. He tweets @TrueFactBarFact, and secretly controls the world from his website, www.johnvorhaus.com.

Graduating from the University of Mississippi with a degree in broadcast journalism, Keith honed his writing skills in the classroom during the week, and his poker skills in Tunica during the weekend. For two years, he wrote the syndicated humor column “This Week in Funny” for The Daily Mississippian.

In 2007 and 2008 Keith participated in both seasons of the FOX’s The Best Damn Poker Show, competing alongside Phil Hellmuth and Epic Poker League Commissioner Annie Duke.

A former online cash game player before Black Friday, Keith made his first World Series of Poker Circuit final table in 2010, and won the gold ring in his second at St. Louis in 2011.

Alongside David Tuchman and Nichoel Jurgens, Keith is a regular co-host of Live at the Bike, a live streaming cash game from the Bicycle Casino.

In 2012, Keith began working as a producer for the World Poker Tour.

He regularly writes a poker blog on Cardrunners under the name “SuitedKeiths.” You can follow him on Twitter at @KeithWoernle.