University of Michigan (2021-2022)

Joey Arslanian

Hometown: Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Major: Kinesiology

Year: Sophomore

Bio: My name is Joey Arslanian and I have been playing poker for four years now. I am planning on transferring to the school of Kinesiology to pursue a career in Sport Management. My favorite hand is T8 of hearts, specifically.

Joshua Bay

Hometown: Ann Arbor, Michigan

Major: PPE

Year: Junior

Bio: I am from a suburb of Chicago, and have loved poker since middle school. You can find me in the Pokerstars Michigan streets almost all the time.

Nickolas Holden

Hometown: Ann Arbor, Michigan

Major: Computer Science

Year: Senior

Bio: Everyone knows that there isn’t any professional or anyone period who you are less likely to win money from than me. I noticed a player (who despises me) raising my blinds more frequently than anyone else’s. He’d raise me out as often as his lousy hands would permit (probably ever three blinds I was in). However, I was keeping tabs on every cent I lost to him. After nearly three hours he made a raise to $16 and I looked down to Aces. I went all-in and he folded. I immediately said, over the course of the last several hours I have lost $14 to your pathetic and ill-advised raises, and I have just now won $16 from you, so you are defeated. Now let’s see how the next 3 hours play out between us. I sacrificed Aces in order to obliterate that fool. It didn’t make a difference though as in those three hours I had doubled up at the expense of some other idiot, and I was sitting with $700 in front of me. That guy won’t sit at my table any longer.