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Roy Cooke is a professional poker player, poker consultant and author living in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, April 12, 1957. He spent his childhood in Derby, England and Bellevue, Washington. Before taking up poker full-time he attended the University of Washington where he majored in Computer Science. Cooke has been a licensed Real Estate Broker in Las Vegas since 1990 He is a member of the Summerlin chapter of Toastmasters, of which he was president in 2006. He is married to the former Francine Piano (Misty). They have one daughter, Krystle, born on August 16, 1992. == Poker career == Cooke started playing poker in public cardrooms as a 15-year-old in Washington State in 1972. He took up the game full-time in 1975. Through the 70s and early 80s he was a nomadic player—a rounder—traveling from town-to-town looking for games in Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Reno, Nevada. In 1984 Cooke moved to Las Vegas, Nevada. He has played regularly with many WSOP champions including Johnny Moss, Berry Johnston, Tom McEvoy, Carlos Mortenson, Scotty Nguyen, Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth. The game Cooke most frequently plays is Limit Texas Hold’em, although he forays somewhat regularly into No-Limit Hold’em. He has played almost 65,000 hours of poker live and online. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roy Cooke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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