NICK WEALTHALL

Nick's mission is to bring poker to the mainstream UK audience by making it as accessible and entertaining as possible. For the last 4 years Nick has gained a reputation as one of the most informed and entertaining TV hosts in poker. As a face of Poker Night Live (winner of the gaming industry's award for best poker show) and Sky Poker he regularly entertains and educates an audience of poker enthusiasts. He has also commentated on a variety of poker tournaments on channel 5, challenge TV and others. Nick has hundreds of hours of live poker TV experience and is comfortable in any studio on or off script.

Before the poker craze swept into the UK Nick already had an established media profile as one the country's leading comedy writers. He has written for over 30 TV shows as diverse as Have I Got News For You, The Friday Night Project and the National Lottery. He has also made several TV appearances outside poker and countless live appearances in the comedy and corporate world. Nick brings this comic pedigree to his poker broadcasting elevating any project he is involved with to a more accessible, entertaining level.

Nick is a highly respected journalist and author. He writes an extremely popular column and regular strategy features for top selling magazines including Poker Player, Bluff and Flush magazine. He has interviewed most of the big names in poker including Barry Greenstein, Daniel Negreanu and countless others.

His first instructional DVD 'Nick Wealthall on Tournaments' was released at the beginning of 2008. Nick has also been heavily involved on the training side of poker. Notably Nick recently provided the content for and hosted a well know poker site's residential poker training course..

His latest venture is 'On the Rail' - a poker podcast which features the best guests, hand analysis and entertaining features. The podcast is aimed at bringing exciting, accessible content to poker's ever growing younger market and is now the most downloaded poker podcast in the UK.

Nick's love affair with poker began over ten years ago on a holiday to Vegas. After building his skills in UK casinos and home games he ran away from his city job to join the poker circus. Nick lived and worked as poker pro in Las Vegas and England, during which time he beat some of the toughest cash games around and sat with some of the best players in the world. He stopped playing full time to pursue his career as a broadcaster but still competes regularly at a high level, online and live.