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Blaise Bourgeois

Blaise Bourgeois is a professional poker player and a WSOP Circuit Ring winner. While mainly playing online, Blaise has taken up live poker over the last couple of years, mostly playing in Brazil and Las Vegas. Expect to see a lot of him on tour. Blaise still freelances with Poker.Org from time-to-time in various on-camera and off-camera capacities, working closely with some of the best poker players in the world. He's also worked with PokerNews and WSOP covering events all around the world. Blaise also worked at NBC this past summer, covering his third Olympics as a Research Statistician for the Men's and Women's soccer tournaments. He has contributed to World Cups, Copa Americas, and has been the Director of a professional soccer team. Blaise received his Master's in Sport Management and Sports Analytics from St. John's University. Blaise also holds a Mathematics and Computer Science degree from SUNY Purchase, where he still holds the school's Men's Soccer record for goals in a season.