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Liam Flood is an Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
 bookmaker
Bookmaker

A bookmaker, or bookie, is an organization or a person that takes gambling and pays winnings depending upon results and, depending on the nature of the bet, the odds....
 and 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.

Together with Terry Rogers
Terry Rogers

Terry "Red Menace" Rogers was an Ireland bookmaker, credited with introducing hold'em poker to Europe, alongside Liam Flood. He earned his nickname from his bright red hair....
, Flood is credited with introducing Texas hold 'em
Texas hold 'em

Texas hold 'em is the most popular poker game in the casinos and poker card rooms across North America and Europe, as well as online poker. According to Doyle Brunson and Johnny Moss, it was originally considered a variation of seven card stud, and was called "Texas hold 'em seven card stud" back in the 1920's....
 to Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
.

He was a finalist in series 1 and 2 of the famous 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....
 television series and went on to be the floorman for the Celebrity Poker Club
Celebrity Poker Club

Celebrity Poker Club is a United Kingdom television show featuring celebrities playing poker. The program debuted on Challenge TV in 2003 as a spin-off to the popular Late Night Poker series....
 spin-off. In 1997, he had an 11th place finish in the pot-limit hold-em tournament at the World Series of Poker
World Series of Poker

The World Series of Poker is the "the oldest, largest, most prestigious, and most media-hyped gaming competition in the world". It is held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada....
, an event won by Phil Hellmuth
Phil Hellmuth

Phillip J. Hellmuth, Jr. is an United States professional poker player. He is best known for holding a record eleven World Series of Poker bracelets, for winning the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker and for his "poker brat" personality....
 and featuring Tom McEvoy
Tom McEvoy

Thomas K. McEvoy is a professional poker player and author.McEvoy was an accountant, but after he was laid off from his job, he took up poker full time in 1978....
, Todd Brunson
Todd Brunson

Todd Brunson is an United States professional poker player and the son of poker player Doyle Brunson.Although Brunson's father Doyle was a poker player, Brunson did not learn the game when he was young....
 and Kathy Liebert
Kathy Liebert

Kathleen H. Liebert is an United States professional poker player. She is the first woman ever to win a tournament with a first prize of $1,000,000....
. In 1998, he had a 15th place finish in the no-limit hold-em tournament at the World Series - a tournament also featuring Erik Seidel
Erik Seidel

Erik Seidel is an United States professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada with eight World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title....
 and Chris Ferguson
Chris Ferguson

Christopher Philip Ferguson is an American professional poker player. In his career he has won five World Series of Poker bracelets, including the bracelet for the 2000 World Series of Poker, and is the winner of the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship....
.

His biggest cash win to date is a second-place finish at the Party Poker World Open in Maidstone
Maidstone

Maidstone is the county town of Kent, England, south-east of London. The River Medway runs through the centre of the town linking Maidstone to Rochester and the Thames Estuary....
, Kent
Kent

Kent is a Counties of England in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the River Thames estuary....
, 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...
 on 3 April 2005.






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Liam Flood is an Irish
Irish people

The Irish people are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland, in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha D? Danann and the Milesians ?the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic a...
 bookmaker
Bookmaker

A bookmaker, or bookie, is an organization or a person that takes gambling and pays winnings depending upon results and, depending on the nature of the bet, the odds....
 and 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.

Together with Terry Rogers
Terry Rogers

Terry "Red Menace" Rogers was an Ireland bookmaker, credited with introducing hold'em poker to Europe, alongside Liam Flood. He earned his nickname from his bright red hair....
, Flood is credited with introducing Texas hold 'em
Texas hold 'em

Texas hold 'em is the most popular poker game in the casinos and poker card rooms across North America and Europe, as well as online poker. According to Doyle Brunson and Johnny Moss, it was originally considered a variation of seven card stud, and was called "Texas hold 'em seven card stud" back in the 1920's....
 to Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
.

He was a finalist in series 1 and 2 of the famous 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....
 television series and went on to be the floorman for the Celebrity Poker Club
Celebrity Poker Club

Celebrity Poker Club is a United Kingdom television show featuring celebrities playing poker. The program debuted on Challenge TV in 2003 as a spin-off to the popular Late Night Poker series....
 spin-off. In 1997, he had an 11th place finish in the pot-limit hold-em tournament at the World Series of Poker
World Series of Poker

The World Series of Poker is the "the oldest, largest, most prestigious, and most media-hyped gaming competition in the world". It is held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada....
, an event won by Phil Hellmuth
Phil Hellmuth

Phillip J. Hellmuth, Jr. is an United States professional poker player. He is best known for holding a record eleven World Series of Poker bracelets, for winning the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker and for his "poker brat" personality....
 and featuring Tom McEvoy
Tom McEvoy

Thomas K. McEvoy is a professional poker player and author.McEvoy was an accountant, but after he was laid off from his job, he took up poker full time in 1978....
, Todd Brunson
Todd Brunson

Todd Brunson is an United States professional poker player and the son of poker player Doyle Brunson.Although Brunson's father Doyle was a poker player, Brunson did not learn the game when he was young....
 and Kathy Liebert
Kathy Liebert

Kathleen H. Liebert is an United States professional poker player. She is the first woman ever to win a tournament with a first prize of $1,000,000....
. In 1998, he had a 15th place finish in the no-limit hold-em tournament at the World Series - a tournament also featuring Erik Seidel
Erik Seidel

Erik Seidel is an United States professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada with eight World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title....
 and Chris Ferguson
Chris Ferguson

Christopher Philip Ferguson is an American professional poker player. In his career he has won five World Series of Poker bracelets, including the bracelet for the 2000 World Series of Poker, and is the winner of the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship....
.

His biggest cash win to date is a second-place finish at the Party Poker World Open in Maidstone
Maidstone

Maidstone is the county town of Kent, England, south-east of London. The River Medway runs through the centre of the town linking Maidstone to Rochester and the Thames Estuary....
, Kent
Kent

Kent is a Counties of England in southeast England, and is one of the home counties. It borders East Sussex, Surrey and Greater London and has a defined boundary with Essex in the middle of the River Thames estuary....
, 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...
 on 3 April 2005. He won $150,000. Flood also appeared in the 2005 World Speed Poker Open
World Speed Poker Open

The World Speed Poker Open was an international poker tournament held under speed poker rules....
. As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $950,000.

In 2007, Flood won the Party Poker European Open, beating Darren Hickman in the final head-to-head and pocketing the first prize of $125,000. This was his first outright win in a televised tournament.

Flood ironically nicknamed 'the Gentleman' is often one of the fiercest opponent one could meet at the poker table. He received the nickname from his penchant for school-master ties, and 1970's haircuts, whereby he would give the impression of an aristocrat. Flood was also well known to have been the inspriration for the popular boy band Boyzone
Boyzone

Boyzone are an Irish people boy band who had popular mainstream success during the 1990s. They were most successful in the Republic of Ireland, Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom and they also had differing levels of success in parts of Central Europe....
 when he and schoolboy friend Louis Walsh collaborated in a brief spell of management. The relationship didn't last long however as the two grew further apart, publicly blaming their respective workloads for the fallout.

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