Full Tilt Poker Team just got bigger, the online poker room has announced that professional poker player, Hal Lubarsky, has signed as part of Full Tilt’s lineup of sponsored pros. Lubarsky is the first blind player ever to cash in the World Series of Poker, finishing in 197th place in the 2007 Main Event. Hal Lubarsky will join a large list of Full Tilt Poker’s pros including Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, Gus Hansen, and Clonie Gowen, Allen Cunningham, Andy Bloch, and Mike Matusow among others.

Hall has been playing poker since he moved to Las Vegas in 1985, place in where he became famous for playing some of the biggest names in the professional poker circuit before he started losing his sight. In 2007 Hal attended the WSOP Main Event in company of a caller, whose work was reading the cards for Hal and basically tell him what was going on during the game. Initially the WSOP officials opposed the idea of letting Hal having a caller, however, Lubarsky persuaded the officials with a clear and straight statement “Let me play or I’ll sue you” During this event, he outlasted a field of 6,358 entrants before finishing in 197th place, cashing $51,398 and surviving longer than many poker pros, including Sorel Mizzi, Carlos Mortensen, and Sang Kim. In 2008, Lubarsky came back to the WSOP with a different caller, unfortunately this time he did not finish in the money.

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