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Gary Herbert "The Choirboy" Jones (born 29 October 1972) is a professional poker
Poker

Poker is a family of card game that share betting rules and usually List of poker hands. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bets and how many rounds of betting are allowed....
 player from Stafford
Stafford

Stafford is the county town of Staffordshire in England. It lies in the north of the West Midlands , between Wolverhampton and Stoke-on-Trent. The population of Stafford was given in the 2001 census as 63,681, with that of the wider Stafford as 124,531....
, Staffordshire
Staffordshire

Staffordshire is a landlocked Counties of England in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Stafford. Part of the National Forest, England lies within its borders....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
. He is also a regular color commentator
Color commentator

A color commentator, sometimes known as a color analyst, is a member of the broadcasting team for a sports event who assists the play-by-play announcer by filling in any time when play is not in progress....
 on The Poker Channel.

Jones had a 2nd place finish to Jac Arama
Jac Arama

Jac Arama is a professional poker player of mixed England/France descent. Arama is known for his large range of sunglasses and aggressive playing style which is referred to by poker commentators as Jac Attack....
 in his first appearance on Late Night Poker
Late Night Poker

Late Night Poker is a Great Britain television show in which poker players, mostly professionals or strong amateurs, compete in a short series of No-Limit Texas hold 'em tournament games for a prize of approximately ?50,000....
. He went on to finish 5th in the Runners-Up Final (having suffered a bad beat
Bad beat

In poker, bad beat is a subjective term for a hand in which a player, who had what appeared to be strong cards, nevertheless loses. It most often occurs where one player bets the clearly stronger hand and their opponent makes a poor call that eventually "hits" and wins....
 against Marty Wilson
Marty Wilson

Marty Wilson is an England professional poker player from Wolverhampton. His nickname originates from when, as a teenager, he escaped several rival football fans by jumping into a polar bear pit....
) eventually won by Joe Beevers
Joe Beevers

Joseph "Joe" Charles Beevers is an English professional poker player and a member of The Hendon Mob.During his lengthy poker career, Beevers became one of the pioneers of poker on television by appearing in every series of Late Night Poker, where he made a record 3 grand finals....
.

At the 2004 World Series of Poker
2004 World Series of Poker

The 2004 World Series of Poker was held at Binion's Horseshoe after Harrah's Entertainment purchased the casino and the rights to the tournament in January....
, Jones finished in 17th place. Surprisingly, he never faced eventual winner Greg Raymer
Greg Raymer

Gregory Raymer is a professional poker player. He is best known for winning the 2004 World Series of Poker main event, and for the opaque hologram sunglasses that he sometimes wears during hands....
 throughout the entire tournament.

Jones considers pot limit
Betting (poker)

In the game of poker, the play largely centers around the act of gambling, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing....
 Omaha to be his best game.

As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $500,000.

He plays online poker
Online poker

Online poker is the game of poker played over the Internet. It has been partly responsible for a dramatic increase in the number of poker players worldwide....
 at PokerStars
PokerStars

PokerStars is the largest Online poker in the world.PokerStars' Poker tournament produced the 2003 World Series of Poker champion, Chris Moneymaker, as well as the 2004 World Series of Poker champion, Greg Raymer....
 under the username "p10ker" and at PartyPoker
PartyGaming

PartyGaming Plc is an online gambling company, best known for its online poker room PartyPoker.com. It is headquartered in Gibraltar and quoted on the London Stock Exchange....
 as "MyimaTsarong" and at Fulltilt Poker as "Dafool".






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Gary Herbert "The Choirboy" Jones (born 29 October 1972) is a professional poker
Poker

Poker is a family of card game that share betting rules and usually List of poker hands. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bets and how many rounds of betting are allowed....
 player from Stafford
Stafford

Stafford is the county town of Staffordshire in England. It lies in the north of the West Midlands , between Wolverhampton and Stoke-on-Trent. The population of Stafford was given in the 2001 census as 63,681, with that of the wider Stafford as 124,531....
, Staffordshire
Staffordshire

Staffordshire is a landlocked Counties of England in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Stafford. Part of the National Forest, England lies within its borders....
, England
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
. He is also a regular color commentator
Color commentator

A color commentator, sometimes known as a color analyst, is a member of the broadcasting team for a sports event who assists the play-by-play announcer by filling in any time when play is not in progress....
 on The Poker Channel.

Jones had a 2nd place finish to Jac Arama
Jac Arama

Jac Arama is a professional poker player of mixed England/France descent. Arama is known for his large range of sunglasses and aggressive playing style which is referred to by poker commentators as Jac Attack....
 in his first appearance on Late Night Poker
Late Night Poker

Late Night Poker is a Great Britain television show in which poker players, mostly professionals or strong amateurs, compete in a short series of No-Limit Texas hold 'em tournament games for a prize of approximately ?50,000....
. He went on to finish 5th in the Runners-Up Final (having suffered a bad beat
Bad beat

In poker, bad beat is a subjective term for a hand in which a player, who had what appeared to be strong cards, nevertheless loses. It most often occurs where one player bets the clearly stronger hand and their opponent makes a poor call that eventually "hits" and wins....
 against Marty Wilson
Marty Wilson

Marty Wilson is an England professional poker player from Wolverhampton. His nickname originates from when, as a teenager, he escaped several rival football fans by jumping into a polar bear pit....
) eventually won by Joe Beevers
Joe Beevers

Joseph "Joe" Charles Beevers is an English professional poker player and a member of The Hendon Mob.During his lengthy poker career, Beevers became one of the pioneers of poker on television by appearing in every series of Late Night Poker, where he made a record 3 grand finals....
.

At the 2004 World Series of Poker
2004 World Series of Poker

The 2004 World Series of Poker was held at Binion's Horseshoe after Harrah's Entertainment purchased the casino and the rights to the tournament in January....
, Jones finished in 17th place. Surprisingly, he never faced eventual winner Greg Raymer
Greg Raymer

Gregory Raymer is a professional poker player. He is best known for winning the 2004 World Series of Poker main event, and for the opaque hologram sunglasses that he sometimes wears during hands....
 throughout the entire tournament.

Jones considers pot limit
Betting (poker)

In the game of poker, the play largely centers around the act of gambling, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing....
 Omaha to be his best game.

As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $500,000.

He plays online poker
Online poker

Online poker is the game of poker played over the Internet. It has been partly responsible for a dramatic increase in the number of poker players worldwide....
 at PokerStars
PokerStars

PokerStars is the largest Online poker in the world.PokerStars' Poker tournament produced the 2003 World Series of Poker champion, Chris Moneymaker, as well as the 2004 World Series of Poker champion, Greg Raymer....
 under the username "p10ker" and at PartyPoker
PartyGaming

PartyGaming Plc is an online gambling company, best known for its online poker room PartyPoker.com. It is headquartered in Gibraltar and quoted on the London Stock Exchange....
 as "MyimaTsarong" and at Fulltilt Poker as "Dafool". He also won $27,000 in the World Championship of Online Poker
World Championship of Online Poker

The World Championship of Online Poker is an online poker poker tournament series sponsored by PokerStars.Established in 2002 as the online equivalent of the World Series of Poker, the WCOOP tournament series is the largest of its kind on the Internet....
.

He has chosen not to attend any event where he has to fly for environmental reasons. This includes the World Series of Poker. For a similar reason he has dyed his hair green for the World Series of Poker Europe
World Series of Poker Europe

The World Series of Poker Europe is the first expansion effort of World Series of Poker-branded poker poker tournament outside of the United States....
 2007 where he was called 'The Al Gore
Al Gore

Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. is an United States environmentalism activist who served as the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President of the United States Bill Clinton....
 of Poker'.

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