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Jeff Hwang is a gaming industry consultant and the best-selling author of Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: The Big Play Strategy and the three-volume Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha series. A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis with degrees in both finance and management, Jeff is also an investment writer/analyst and a long-time contributor to The Motley Fool/Fool.com, a multi-media financial services company.
Jeff holds an MBA and MS in Hotel Administration from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Jeff has been an advantage player since 1999, when he took an interest in blackjack and started hitting up the cruise ships off the coast of Florida near his hometown of Ft. Lauderdale. Shortly after graduating from college in 2003, Jeff began covering the gaming industry stocks for The Motley Fool, where his highly regarded work on the gaming industry in general and the regional |
gaming markets in particular has led to references in Cigar Aficionado, as well as in business publications as geographically diverse as the Las Vegas Business Press, Macau Business, and the Baton Rouge Business Report. At the same time, Jeff also picked up poker, and began playing regularly on the riverboats in his adopted home of St. Louis.
Jeff's interest in blackjack, poker, and the gaming industry has led him to visit virtually every commercial casino in the United States, and has given him an intimate knowledge of the riverboat casinos unrivaled in the financial media. Meanwhile, the time spent playing poker primarily on the riverboats of Missouri, Mississippi, and Indiana provided the impetus for Jeff's first book, Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: The Big Play Strategy, which was released in December 2007.
Pot-Limit Omaha Poker has since become the best-selling book on Omaha poker ever written, and remains the standard text for hold’em players looking to pick up the game.
In March 2008, Jeff was enlisted by Card Player magazine to write a regular column on Omaha poker, and – given his background as an investment analyst – bankroll management as well. And thanks in large part to the success of both the column and the book, Jeff quickly established himself as the world's leading authority on Omaha poker.
In August 2008, in an effort to dive deeper into the gaming industry, Jeff made the move to Las Vegas and enrolled in the dual MBA/MS in Hotel Administration program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
In November of that year, in a partnership of mutual interests with North Carolina-based PokerTek, Jeff began hosting a regular small-stakes PLO game on PokerTek’s PokerPro electronic poker tables in the fully-automated poker room at the Excalibur Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. And on November 20th, 2008, Jeff hosted the official kickoff event at Excalibur with a lineup featuring Lyle Berman – a 3-time World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner, as well as Chairman of PokerTek, Lakes Entertainment, and World Poker Tour Enterprises – and David Sklansky, a 3-time WSOP bracelet winner, as well as perhaps the most influential poker author ever.
In June 2009, Jeff released his second book, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play.
In July 2009, in concert with poker room management at The Venetian, Jeff brought small-stakes live PLO to fruition in Las Vegas by starting a regular $1-$2 blind game with a $5 bring-in and $500 max buy-in. That game has since become the longest-running PLO game in Las Vegas in the post-Moneymaker era.
In October 2010, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha Volume II: LAG Play and Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha Volume III: The Short-Handed Workbook were released simultaneously. Later that year, Jeff was contracted by PokerTracker to participate as a consultant on the development of PokerTracker 4.
In May 2011, Jeff and his friend Steven "TT" McLoughlin worked with poker room management at Aria to establish a $1-$3 PLO game with a $200-min/$500-max buy-in, while setting the structures for the $2-$5 and $5-$10 blind PLO games as well. The PLO games at Aria have run on a consistent basis ever since, while the $1-$3 blind game has been the most reliable small stakes PLO game in Las Vegas.
Jeff completed his MBA and MS in Hotel Administration at University of Nevada Las Vegas in May 2011.
In July 2011, Jeff was enlisted by HVS in helping conduct a market feasibility study on the Las Vegas Sands Spain project, dubbed “EuroVegas.” The consulting project was one of the largest of its kind ever undertaken in the industry, and involved the cooperation of HVS offices in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago, London, and Madrid. Jeff created the model designed to project gaming revenues from local and regional patrons, and participated in a two-week field study of the European gaming markets, ranging from London to Monte Carlo, Paris, Barcelona, and Madrid.
Upon completing his work on the project, Jeff returned to work as a consultant on the development of PokerTracker 4, the premier stat-tracking software for online poker players. PokerTracker 4 was released in the fall of 2012.
Jeff's interest in blackjack, poker, and the gaming industry has led him to visit virtually every commercial casino in the United States, and has given him an intimate knowledge of the riverboat casinos unrivaled in the financial media. Meanwhile, the time spent playing poker primarily on the riverboats of Missouri, Mississippi, and Indiana provided the impetus for Jeff's first book, Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: The Big Play Strategy, which was released in December 2007.
Pot-Limit Omaha Poker has since become the best-selling book on Omaha poker ever written, and remains the standard text for hold’em players looking to pick up the game.
In March 2008, Jeff was enlisted by Card Player magazine to write a regular column on Omaha poker, and – given his background as an investment analyst – bankroll management as well. And thanks in large part to the success of both the column and the book, Jeff quickly established himself as the world's leading authority on Omaha poker.
In August 2008, in an effort to dive deeper into the gaming industry, Jeff made the move to Las Vegas and enrolled in the dual MBA/MS in Hotel Administration program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
In November of that year, in a partnership of mutual interests with North Carolina-based PokerTek, Jeff began hosting a regular small-stakes PLO game on PokerTek’s PokerPro electronic poker tables in the fully-automated poker room at the Excalibur Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. And on November 20th, 2008, Jeff hosted the official kickoff event at Excalibur with a lineup featuring Lyle Berman – a 3-time World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner, as well as Chairman of PokerTek, Lakes Entertainment, and World Poker Tour Enterprises – and David Sklansky, a 3-time WSOP bracelet winner, as well as perhaps the most influential poker author ever.
In June 2009, Jeff released his second book, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha: Small Ball and Short-Handed Play.
In July 2009, in concert with poker room management at The Venetian, Jeff brought small-stakes live PLO to fruition in Las Vegas by starting a regular $1-$2 blind game with a $5 bring-in and $500 max buy-in. That game has since become the longest-running PLO game in Las Vegas in the post-Moneymaker era.
In October 2010, Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha Volume II: LAG Play and Advanced Pot-Limit Omaha Volume III: The Short-Handed Workbook were released simultaneously. Later that year, Jeff was contracted by PokerTracker to participate as a consultant on the development of PokerTracker 4.
In May 2011, Jeff and his friend Steven "TT" McLoughlin worked with poker room management at Aria to establish a $1-$3 PLO game with a $200-min/$500-max buy-in, while setting the structures for the $2-$5 and $5-$10 blind PLO games as well. The PLO games at Aria have run on a consistent basis ever since, while the $1-$3 blind game has been the most reliable small stakes PLO game in Las Vegas.
Jeff completed his MBA and MS in Hotel Administration at University of Nevada Las Vegas in May 2011.
In July 2011, Jeff was enlisted by HVS in helping conduct a market feasibility study on the Las Vegas Sands Spain project, dubbed “EuroVegas.” The consulting project was one of the largest of its kind ever undertaken in the industry, and involved the cooperation of HVS offices in San Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago, London, and Madrid. Jeff created the model designed to project gaming revenues from local and regional patrons, and participated in a two-week field study of the European gaming markets, ranging from London to Monte Carlo, Paris, Barcelona, and Madrid.
Upon completing his work on the project, Jeff returned to work as a consultant on the development of PokerTracker 4, the premier stat-tracking software for online poker players. PokerTracker 4 was released in the fall of 2012.
