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Blaise Bourgeois is a professional poker player and a WSOP Circuit Ring winner. While mainly playing online, Blaise has taken up live poker over the last couple of years, mostly playing in Brazil and Las Vegas. Expect to see a lot of him on tour. Blaise still freelances with Poker.Org from time-to-time in various on-camera and off-camera capacities, working closely with some of the best poker players in the world. He's also worked with PokerNews and WSOP covering events all around the world. Blaise also worked at NBC this past summer, covering his third Olympics as a Research Statistician for the Men's and Women's soccer tournaments. He has contributed to World Cups, Copa Americas, and has been the Director of a professional soccer team. Blaise received his Master's in Sport Management and Sports Analytics from St. John's University. Blaise also holds a Mathematics and Computer Science degree from SUNY Purchase, where he still holds the school's Men's Soccer record for goals in a season.
Latest Articles By Blaise Bourgeois (51)
New Caesars Palace Las Vegas Poker Room to Debut "Before WSOP"
According to Caesars Entertainment Las Vegas regional President Sean McBurney, the new poker room inside the famous casino will be open “before the World Series of Poker starts.” While the official opening date hasn't been announced, Las Vegas blog Vegas Advantage has reported, from an inside source, that the new...
Cleveland Poker Dealer Pleads Guilty for Stealing Chips Out of Cash Game Pots
Former poker dealer Jason Saliba, who was employed at JACK Cleveland Casino, pleaded guilty to nine gambling violations. The 51-year-old Saliba was indicted in October on 14 casino gaming law...
WSOP Bracelet Winner Mike Holtz Details Cheating Scandal at Resorts World
World Series of Poker bracelet winner and six-time Circuit ring champion Mike Holtz sounded off on absurd events that reportedly took place at Resorts World during the $800 buy-in Poker...
Harrison Gimbel Wins Wynn Millions Main Event ($455,388)
The Wynn Millions in Las Vegas is always one of the most-anticipated poker series early on in the poker calendar, with the $3,000 Main Event being the premier tournament of...
Four-Time WSOP Circuit Ring Winner Charged with Federal Fraud
The life of four-time WSOP Circuit winner George Janssen has certainly been an interesting one over the last 18 months, and not for any of the right reasons. Last week,...
Alan Keating Wins Early 2025 Hand of the Year Candidate
One of the best hands you may ever see in your lifetime just went down on the latest episode of High Stakes Poker. This $911,000 hand pitted Alan Keating against...
GGPoker Crashes During $5M GTD GGMasters Anniversary
Typically, every Sunday on GGPoker features one of the most attractive tournaments in online poker - the $150 GGMasters that typically boasts a $500,000 guarantee. On February 23rd, GGPoker upped...
GPI Awards: Brad Willis Wins Best Journalist, Nikki Limo Wins Best Short-Form Video
In most deserving fashion, Brad Willis finally won the award for Best Journalist at the 6th Annual GPI Global Poker Awards in Las Vegas. The Poker.Org editor-in-chief gave a very...
Dan Stavila Delivers Cooler After Cooler to Win Card Player Poker Tour Venetian Main Event
The $1,600 2025 Card Player Poker Tour Venetian Main Event final table was one of the wildest we've seen in recent memory. After all was said and done, Dan Stavila...
2025 WSOP Schedule Released - Record Tournament Slate and Six New Events
The much-anticipated 2025 World Series of Poker schedule was finally released on Monday, February 17th. With GGPoker having recently bought WSOP for $500 million back in August, a number of...