PocketFives About Us
PocketFives
230 4th Ave. North, Suite 105
Nashville, TN 37219
Phone: 1 615 290 5592
support@pocketfives.com
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PocketFives.com is a popular online poker forum and community launched in early 2005 by Vanderbilt University graduates Cal Spears, Adam Small, and Riley Bryant. PocketFives focuses on online poker tournament play, but players of all types from around the globe use the site on a daily basis.
Why do we call ourselves PocketFives? If you don't already know, pocket fives is the most culturally rich hand in poker. Nicknamed "presto," this hand has developed its own subculture, particularly in online card rooms and message boards, since the early 1990s. The proliferation of online poker has since solidified this hand in poker lore. It has a certain mystique, which made the name a perfect fit for our community.
Within five years of its launch, PocketFives grew to over 100,000 members from all over the world. Our site originally gained fame by ranking online poker players. Since then, the PocketFives Rankings have become the standard by which online poker players are measured. We've also diversified to display Country Rankings and Sortable Rankings that allow users to determine who the top players are in a particular city or region.
PocketFives offers unique content about poker news, legislation, tournament results, interviews, and lifestyle. Our team of experienced content writers brings the industry to life on a daily basis. Here's an overview of our writing staff.
Dan Cypra (View Profile)Editor in Chief - dan@pocketfives.com
Dan Cypra has been contributing to PocketFives since 2006 and became its Editor-in- Chief in 2011. He's one of the youngest students ever to graduate with an MBA from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he resides with his wife Mary.
Cypra is been a member of the medial voting panel for the Poker Hall of Fame and also contributes to ESPN's poker rankings, "The Nuts." He has written articles for a variety of poker news outlets, including PokerSoftware, Poker News Daily, MacPoker, and TheNuts. Cypra also authors several monthly articles in Poker Pro Magazine.
When he's not writing about poker, Cypra is busy hosting a weekly bar trivia game in Nashville or keeping stats for his beloved Vanderbilt Commodores, a position he's held since 1999.
David Huber (View Profile) moderation@pocketfives.com
"dhubermex" began playing online poker in 2004. He quickly became profitable in low- stakes sit and gos on PokerStars, often playing 10 or more tables at once. He eventually moved up to multi-tabling $55 sit and gos on PokerStars before moving on to MTTs in 2007, a year in which he was a profitable mid-stakes online tournament player.
In 2008, Huber served as Editor-in-Chief of PocketFives.com and still works with PocketFives as an administrative member, Podcast host, and forum moderation consultant. Huber is a resident of Mexico and his "dhubermex" handle is one of the most recognized names on PocketFives.
Dan Katz (View Profile) dankatz@pocketfives.com
Dan Katz has been in the poker industry since 2005, serving primarily as a poker news writer for a number of websites. A micro-to-low stakes casual online player before becoming involved in writing, Dan has also written many strategy articles geared towards the novice recreational player who wants to gain a more solid footing in the game. Dan earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Emory University, so a career in poker made perfect sense. He currently lives in Atlanta with his wife and two kids.
Court Harrington (View profile) court@pocketfives.com
Court Harrington has been on the poker scene since 2006, both on the business side of the industry and as a player. On the felt, he prefers live cash games, especially PLO8 along with the occasional big buy-in tournament.
On the business side, Harrington has worked with PocketFives covering poker tournaments; with PokerRoad as a jack of all trades, including as a radio host with co- hosts including Gavin Smith, Joe Sebok, and Joe Stapleton; and various freelance jobs in the industry, including coaching for the WSOP Academy. Currently, he is consulting for companies preparing to enter the U.S. market as the legal climate around online poker continues to evolve, playing in regular cash games, and pursuing a few non-poker business opportunities.
Earl Burton (View Profile)earl@pocketfives.com
An established veteran of the poker media world, Burton has been writing about a variety of poker topics for over seven years. He has been a member of several of the largest poker news organizations in the industry, covering the players, events, news, and products that the poker world has to offer. He also plays the game actively, having participated in the World Series of Poker, World Poker Tour, and various smaller events across the United States. Earl brings an extensive knowledge of the international poker world to PocketFives and looks to impart some of that knowledge to our readers.
