Michael Craig

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Michael Craig is an American lawyer and author best known for his 2005 book, The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King (ISBN 0-446-57769-3).^{[citation needed]} Craig has written about poker since 2005 for Card Player and Bluff magazines, and wrote Michael Craig's Journal online, about his adventures in poker and as a working author. He now writes for the Full Tilt Poker Blog by Michael Craig.

Craig finished seventh in the $1500 Mixed Texas hold 'em event at the 2007 World Series of Poker, earning $22,813. A week later, he made his second World Series of Poker final table, again finishing seventh in the $1000 SHOE (alternating rounds of Stud, Hold 'em, Omaha, and Stud Eight-or-better), earning $15,943. At the start of the 2007 Series, he released The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide - Tournament Edition, which he edited and wrote with Andy Bloch, Richard Brodie, Chris Ferguson, Ted Forrest, Rafe Furst, Phil Gordon, David Grey, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow, Huckleberry Seed, Keith Sexton, and Gavin Smith.