Antonio Esfandiari is one of the best known professional poker players. It is because of his efficient craftsmanship in the game of poker that he is most frequently referred to as Antonio ‘The Magician’ Esfandiari. This famous professional poker player is also known as an actor. He has been currently found to be co-starring with Phil Laak in I Bet You, a TV show on MOJO HD.

Antonio Esfandiari was born in Tehran in Iran on 8th December in the year of 1978. He was then rechristened as Amir Esfandiari. He moved along with his family to San Jose in California when he was merely a boy of 9 years.

It was not that Antonio Esfandiari was fond of the game from the very early age. Rather, he used to take much interest in performing magic tricks. It was at his age of 19 that Antonio became a magician and he took it as his profession. It was during this period of time that he changed his name from Amir to Antonio. When he became quite famous as a professional magician, he was invited to a poker game of Texas Hold’em. From this time on he began playing poker.

So far as the success and achievements of Antonio Esfandiari as a professional poker player is concerned, he won nearly 1.4 US dollars at the Commerce Casino in the year of 2004. A few months after this achievement of Antonio, he won the World Series of Poker bracelet in Pot-Limit Texas Hold’em. It was for the first time that he won the World Series of Poker Bracelet .

Antonio Esfandiari was found to have appeared in the second and also in the third season of the Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament. Though he had finished dead last in the previous season, he made an impressive come back securing the second place in the third season. Antonio also took part in each of the seasons of NBC Poker after Dark and also in the early four sessions of High Stakes Poker.

The performance of Antonio Esfandiari as a professional poker player was quite impressive in the year of 2007. He managed to win more than 2.7 million US dollars in that year.

Apart from his identity as a famous professional poker player, he is also renowned for his chip trick techniques. It is often reported that when he is on his tour to the poker circuit, he shares the same room with Phil Laak with whom he is presently co-starring in I Bet You.

It has happened eleven times in his professional career as a poker player that his money has been finished during the game. His money finishes five times in the World Poker Tour and six times in the World Series of Poker. Though he has failed to manage the credit of having any ITM main event finish, he has won one Bracelet in the World Series of Poker.