by Card Player News Team | Published: Feb 08, '21

Poker Stories is a long-form audio podcast series that features casual interviews with some of the game’s best players and personalities. Each episode highlights a well-known member of the poker world and dives deep into their favorite tales both on and off the felt. Ronnie Bardah is fresh off of a career-best score of $566,135 […]

by Card Player News Team | Published: Sep 26, '19

The season premiere of the 39th season of Survivor aired Wednesday night and the episode ended with poker pro Ronnie Bardah being the first contestant voted out of the competition. The World Series of Poker bracelet winner and record holder for most consecutive cashes in the WSOP main event was voted out of the game […]

by Card Player News Team | Published: Sep 10, '19

Ronnie Bardah, a poker pro from Massachusetts who famously cashed in the World Series of Poker main event five consecutive times, is hoping for another deep run in a different competition. The 36-year-old was selected as one of 20 cast members on the latest season of the CBS reality game show Survivor. Yes!, the rumors […]

by Brian Pempus | Published: Jul 09, '15

By making it so that 1,000 people make the money in this year’s main event, the WSOP was in a way doing poker pro Ronnie Bardah a huge favor. Bardah had cashed in the $10,000 buy-in tournament five years in a row, and he was still alive early on day 2c on Thursday. “In the […]

by Erik Fast | Published: Dec 08, '14

Finnish poker players have garnered an international reputation for aggression, and it seems that tendency applies even to their beauty pageant winners. Sara Chafak represented Finland in the 2012 Miss Universe pageant, but turned out to be just as aggressive as she is congenial. The former Miss Finland took part in the Shark Cage poker […]

by Tim Fiorvanti | Published: Jul 09, '25

Jesse Lonis is a throwback to a time before the Moneymaker Boom. The 29-year-old from Upstate New York has crafted a successful poker career out of a tireless grind, working his way up from a bankroll built on construction and odd jobs to the highest levels in the game. Although his lengthy list of accomplishments […]

by Julio Rodriguez | Published: Mar 31, '21

Ronnie Bardah has a way of finding the spotlight. The Brockton, Massachusetts native has become one of poker’s most recognizable faces thanks to his accomplishments at the World Series of Poker, as well as a part he played in a viral online video, and even his short-lived time on the 2019 season of Survivor. Even […]

by Craig Tapscott | Published: Mar 28, '13

Ronnie Bardah was born in Easton, MA and moved to Brockton, MA when he was four years old. He started playing poker, five card draw, with his father soon thereafter. He eventually started off his professional poker career in 2003. Bardah has been able to realize his poker playing dreams by making a deep run […]

by Erik Fast | Published: Jul 06, '23

The 2023 World Series of Poker is just getting started as we go to press, but there have already been plenty of exciting storylines as well as record-breaking fields in the first fortnight of action at the Paris and Horseshoe Las Vegas. In fact, with just 23 of the 95 live bracelet events scheduled this […]

by Card Player News Team | Published: Aug 21, '19

Ron Coury is a well-known name to members of the Las Vegas business community. A former U.S. Marine, Coury has seen and done much in his 45 years in Las Vegas. “I didn’t just start one business and run it for 40 plus years,” he says. “I always got a business started and running properly, […]