Al Spath is the Dean of PokerSchoolOnline.com, a respected writer, teacher, and player in the poker community. He is a noted poker author with articles published in Poker Digest and Live Action Poker as well as many Internet sites. He has provided articles for PokerPages.com for years and has a collection of articles posted at PokerPages.com. Al's "A Chip, A Chair and A Prayer" was a feature article in the 2002 WSOP edition of Poker Digest. This article was selected to be reprinted in the first issue of "Live Action Poker" magazine that debuted at the 2004 World Series of Poker. Al has been involved as a consultant or client tester for numerous sites' beta software (PokerPages.com, HighRollersCardroom.com, StreetLegalPoker.com, VictoryPoker.com, DynamitePoker.com, GrandbayPoker.com, EmeraldPoker.com, LonestarPoker.com, to name a few) and has now joined the PokerSchoolOnline team after most recently being a consultant at DynamitePoker.com. In that capacity, Al designed tournaments, tested newly designed software (builds), provided instruction for new players, was available for private one-on-one tutoring and assisted with site marketing. Al is also the co-founder of VictoryPoker.net, a poker discussion site which hosts yearly junkets to Vegas and in 2004 held a poker sympossium where Tom McEvoy, Matthew Hilger, and Susie Issacs all spoke to the site membership in attendance. Al is a past Southern California,Vegas casino and online tournament winner at both Stud and Texas Hold 'em, however for the past several years most of his time has been devoted to fostering poker education online. He is an instructor at both PokerSchoolOnline.com and PokerInstructors.com More About Al »