Hold’em with Holloway, Vol. 69: Is Your Favorite Poker Pro Left- or Right-Handed?

Be forewarned, this week’s Hold’em with Holloway has nothing to do with poker strategy. Instead, I’m using the column to share some completely meaningless information with you regarding some of your favorite poker players.

Over the course of my six years live reporting for PokerNews, I would occasionally take note of which poker pros were left-handed versus right-handed. I’d simply turn over my notepad and jot their name down in one of two columns as they bagged and tagged their chips at the end of the night.

Part boredom, part curiosity led to this lengthy list, which I thought I’d share with you today. As you’ll see, there were many more righties than lefties, though arguably the world’s most popular poker pro, Daniel Negreanu, was in the latter category.

Who knows, maybe one day there will be some sort of scientific correlation between being a successful poker player and one’s dominant hand? In the meantime, enjoy the novelty of my lists. Oh, for the record, the lists don’t take into account any of the players being ambidextrous.

Left-Handed Poker Players


Paul Volpe	Mukul Pahuja	Mike McDonald	Poker reporters Frank op de Woerd & Benjo DiMeo	Anton Astapau
Theo Jorgensen	Nam Le	Daniel Negreanu	Joe Cada	Connor Drinan

Right-Handed Poker Players


Phil Ivey	Sylvain Loosli	Joao Vieira	Liv Boeree	David Yan
Vanessa Selbst	Liviu Ignat	Jean-Robert Bellande	Jonathan Duhamel	Andy Bloch
Brandon Shack-Harris	Anthony Zinno	Jeremy Ausmus	Jason Mercier	Mike Sexton
Jon Turner	Sorel Mizzi	Justin "BoostedJ" Smith	Ted Forrest	Andrew Chen
Maria Ho	Daniel Dvoress	Adrian Mateos	Ike Haxton	Thomas Muehloecker
Christoph Vogelsang	Ben Heath	Davidi Kitai	Brian Yoon	Dietrich Fast
Christopher Brammer	Luca Moschitta	Kitty Kuo	Jorma Nuutinen	Matthias De Meulder
Igor Kurganov	Jean-Noel Thorel	Timothy Adams	Charlie Carrel	Iaron Lightbourne
Ole Schemion	Konstantin Puchkov	David Peters	Jani Sointula	Vladimir Troyanovskiy
Julian Track	Remko Rinkema	Ivan Demidov	Nicholas Palma	John Juanda
Kevin MacPhee	Ari Engel	Dominik Nitsche	Alen Bilic	Daniel Cates
Bryn Kenney	Ankush Mandavia	Kathy Lehne	Dani Stern	Chris Hunichen
Elliott Smith	Olivier Busquet	Kenny Smaron	Rocco Palumbo	Ole Schemion
Michael Telker	Luc Greenwood	Faraz Jaka	Nick Yunis	Sam Stein
Dario Sammatino	JC Alvarado	Eugene Katchalov	Jason Les	Rainer Kempe
Jason Koon	Oliver Price	Ben Tollerene	Alex Lynskey	Chance Kornuth
Byron Kaverman	Sam Greenwood	Daniel Neilson	Brian Roberts	Niall Farrell
Mustapha Kanit	Benny Spindler	Erik Seidel	Michael Egan	Steve O'Dwyer
Michael Egan	Yaxi Zhu	Brian Rast	Chad Holloway