Jake Tooleis a double-threat poker player, having experienced success both online and live. He cut his teeth on the internet game, known best as psutennis11. He is registered at PocketFives under the screen name jet5087and was once rated as one of the best online tournament players in the world. His recorded online tournament winnings recorded on this site totaled $2.447 million at the time of the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event, closely split between PokerStars, where he goes by hwtd1, and Full Tilt Poker.

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Toole’s largest online tournament cash came back in 2009 when he won $453,687 in a Full Tilt Poker FTOPS event. He reached as high as 10th in the PocketFives Rankings. So respected was his online poker skill that he was an MTT coach at for such sites as PokerNews Strategy and PokerSavvy.

Toole has also done quite nicely in live poker tournaments. Entering the 2015 WSOP, he had cashed a total of ten times at the WSOP, including four times in 2014. His biggest cash was at the 2011 Mega Stack Series Las Vegas Main Event, where he finished third for $143,052. All told, Toole had earned over $700,000 on the live tournament circuit.

In the 2015 WSOP Main Event, he finished in 34th place for $211,000.

Toole was also featured in an article on BusinessInsider.com in 2010. In the piece entitled “The Young Online Poker Studs Who Make Way More Money Than You Do,” the brief blurb on Toole said, “Jake quit college tennis to play poker while finishing up school at Penn State. He changed his major too.”

“I just switched my degree from marketing to psychology this fall and I have two years left. I’m actually looking forward to it,” Jake said.

Others mentioned in the article included Shaun Deeb, Kevin MacPhee (whose MySpace page was quoted), Doc Sands, and Yevgeniy Timoshenko.