JAN
FISHER
Jan Fisher started her
poker career in 1977 when she moved from
Seattle, Washington, to Las Vegas, Nevada, to
become a poker dealer. Having dealt in many of
the cardrooms in Vegas during about a 15-year
period, Fisher moved on to semi-professional
playing and poker management.
Currently, she serves as a partner in Card
Player Cruises (http://cardplayercruises.com/).
She also hosts and directs the semi-annual
Eureka Open poker tournament, held at the Eureka
Resort and Casino in Mesquite, Nevada. She is a
founder of the Tournament Directors Association
(http://pokertda.com/) and has served as the
tournament director for the highly successful
PartyPoker.com Million events.
Jan wrote the Poker 101
column for Card Player magazine for ten years
and currently writes the column "Fishing Around"
for Poker Player Newspaper. She is a past member
of the Board of Directors for the Poker Players
Alliance (http://theppa.org/) and still is very
active in the PPA and their mission. Jan was
seen on the Travel Channel as the live studio
announcer for the Professional Poker Tour and
also was the statistician for the World Poker
Tour for its first six seasons. She gives poker
seminars and lessons around the country, is an
instructor for WPT Boot Camp
(http://wptbootcamp.com/) , and is involved in
many charity projects.
As a co-founder of Poker
Gives, (http://pokergives.com/) she is realizing
a dream of truly making a difference to so many
worthwhile organizations. In June of 2009, she
was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of
Fame (http://wiphof.com/).
Linda Johnson
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