Jan Fisher Bio

Jan Fisher - Card Player Cruises partner

Jan Fisher started her poker career in 1977 when she moved from Seattle, Washington to Las Vegas, Nevada to become a poker dealer. Having dealt in many of the cardrooms in Las Vegas during about a 15-year period, Jan moved on to semi-professional playing and poker management.

Besides being a partner in Card Player Cruises, she also hosts and directs the semi-annual Eureka Open poker tournament held at the Eureka Resort and Casino in Mesquite, Nevada. She is a founder of the Tournament Directors Association and has served as the tournament director for the highly successful PartyPoker.com Million events.

Jan wrote the Poker 101 column for Card Player magazine for ten years and currently writes the column "Fishing Around" for Poker Player newspaper. She is a past member of the Board of Directors for the Poker Players Alliance and still is very active in the PPA and their mission. Jan was seen on the Travel Channel as the live studio announcer for the Professional Poker Tour and also was the statistician for the World Poker Tour for its first six seasons. She gives poker seminars and lessons around the country, is an instructor for WPT Boot Camp, and is involved in many charity projects.

As a co-founder of Poker Gives, she is realizing a dream of truly making a difference to so many worthwhile organizations.

Jan was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame, in June of 2009.

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