Meet the Team

• Paul Jackson
• Karl Mahrenholz

Paul Jackson

Playing online under the infamous moniker ‘actionjack’, Paul was described by the "Voice of poker", Jesse May as the "most winning tournament player in the history of Ladbrokespoker.com."

In addition, he has won many online tournaments on all of the major sites and is generally regarded as one of the most successful online tournament players in Europe.

In terms of live poker, Paul's greatest achievement was his second place finish in the Monte Carlo Millions, losing heads up to Phil Ivey, but receiving $600,000 for his efforts. Included in that game, was one of the most reported and discussed hands in poker history, and put forward as one of the best televised hands of poker ever seen.

Other notable achievements include winning the 1000 euro event and finishing runner up in the world heads up event during the same week in Barcelona. In total, Paul has now amassed over $1 Million in tournament winnings.

Paul has appeared on many televised poker tournaments and is often interviewed on TV, as a player and expert. He regularly featured as the Poker Godfather (teaching online players how to improve) in The Poker Channel's top-rated TV series.

Paul's articles are much in demand, and are regularly published on many leading web sites, from industry ones to the BBC and is a regular contributor to several popular poker magazines. He has also guested on several radio broadcasts on poker related issues, including BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 4's 'Word of Mouth' series.

Following his successful ownership of now ipoker site Uncoverpoker.com and as a very experienced live and online poker player Paul took the position of Director of Poker for DTDpoker.com and used his experience to ensure that DTDpoker.com customers are well looked after, respected and accommodated in terms of their thirst for poker. He also looked after and developed their online academy and trader scheme.

Through various roles at both live and online poker sites, Paul has become a poker mentor to hundreds of developing poker players. He looks forward to sharing his knowledge with fellow players at pokerencore.com



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Karl Mahrenholz

Karl has been playing poker since he was 18 and professionally now for 3 years. Over this time he has developed into one of the most well known and respected players on the UK circuit.

He is part of the London-based group of players known as the "Hitsquad" and keeps a popular blog on their exploits at www.pokerhitsquad.com. Between them they have won over $3m in live tournaments alone in their short poker careers.

Karl has played in the world's biggest tournaments including the $25k WPT championship and the $10k WSOP main event in Las Vegas, the £10k WSOPE main event in London and the €10k EPT Grand final in Monte Carlo. He has also played on the prestigious Late Night Poker and various other televised events. His best results to date include a 2nd placed finish in the inaugural GUKPT main event, and a deep finish in the 2008 WSOPE main event, only just missing the final table after a cruel outdraw to finish in 15th place. He has made a final table of the GUKPT in every season to date and recently took down the main event in Cardiff for £37,800.

Karl has been a sponsored Pro for a major UK site for the last 2 years, and is now excited to be fully on board at Poker Encore. He also has a regular strategy column in Inside Poker magazine, as well as featuring heavily in all other UK poker publications.



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