Bernard Lee is a professional poker

Poker

Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...

 player who first came to prominence by finishing 13th in the 2005 World Series of Poker

2005 World Series of Poker

The 2005 World Series of Poker opened play on June 2, continuing through the Main Event No Limit World Championship starting on July 7. The conclusion of the Main Event on July 15 marked the close of play, and the largest prize in sports and/or television history at the time was awarded to the...

 (WSOP) Main Event. Since then, Lee has enjoyed some success in other poker tournament

Poker tournament

A poker tournament is a tournament where players compete by playing poker. It can feature as few as two players playing on a single table , and as many as tens of thousands of players playing on thousands of tables...

s. In October of 2008, Lee won the $600 No-Limit Hold’em Shoot-out event at the World Poker Finals. This victory earned him three titles in three consecutive years as he won the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em event at the 2006 World Poker Finals and the $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em event at the 2007 World Poker Finals.
As of 2009, his live tournament winnings exceed $1,360,000.

Media personality

Since September 2005, Lee has written the Sunday poker column for the Boston Herald

Boston Herald

The Boston Herald is a daily newspaper that serves Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and its surrounding area. It was started in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States...

. In April 2006, Lee joined the ESPN.com Poker website as a regular columnist. In July of 2008, Lee released his first book, The Final Table, Volume I, which is a compilation of his Boston Herald columns. Based on the first book’s success, Lee released his second book, The Final Table, Volume II, in December 2008. He has also been a guest columnist for several magazines.

Debuting in May 2007, Lee hosts the a poker radio show in the Boston

Boston

Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...

 metropolitan area. "The Bernard Lee Poker Show" incorporates interviews with poker guests including well known players and prominent industry personnel. In addition to current poker news and related information, Lee utilizes calls and e-mails from listeners to discuss poker topics and tips. Previous guests have included Peter Eastgate

Peter Eastgate

Peter Eastgate is a poker player from Denmark, best known as the winner of the Main Event at the 2008 World Series of Poker. At the time, he became the youngest player ever to win the event. He was consequently surpassed by Joe Cada in 2009.-Early life:Eastgate was raised in Dalum, a suburb of...

, Joseph Hachem, Greg Raymer

Greg Raymer

Gregory Raymer nicknamed "Fossilman," is a professional poker player. He is best known for winning the 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event.-Early life:...

, Chris Moneymaker

Chris Moneymaker

Christopher Bryan Moneymaker is an American poker player who won the main event at the 2003 World Series of Poker . His 2003 win is said to have revolutionized poker because he was the first person to become a world champion by qualifying at an online poker site...

, Daniel Negreanu

Daniel Negreanu

Daniel Negreanu is a Canadian professional poker player. He has won four World Series of Poker bracelets and two World Poker Tour Championship titles. He is currently ranked second in the all-time career earnings list and is the star of poker game show Million Dollar Challenge. He plays a big...

, Phil Hellmuth

Phil Hellmuth

Phil Hellmuth is an American professional poker player. He is best known for holding a record 11 World Series of Poker bracelets, for winning the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker and for his temperamental, "poker brat" personality...

, Mike Matusow

Mike Matusow

Michael Matusow is an American professional poker player, residing in Henderson, Nevada. Matusow's nickname of "The Mouth" reflects his reputation for trash-talking at the poker table...

, Norman Chad

Norman Chad

Norman Chad is an American sportswriter and syndicated columnist who is seen on the sports channel ESPN. He also was an occasional guest host on the ESPN show Pardon the Interruption and has appeared as both host and movie critic on the ESPN Classic series Reel Classics.He writes a weekly...

, Mike Sexton

Mike Sexton

Michael Richard Sexton is an American professional poker player and commentator. He is a member of the Poker Hall of Fame.-Early years:...

, Linda Johnson

Linda Johnson

Linda Johnson is an American professional poker player, journalist and consultant, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. She was elected into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2011.-Early life:Linda Johnson was born in 1953 in Long Island, New York...

, JC Tran, Jonathan Little

Jonathan Little

Jonathan Little is an American professional poker player who won both the World Poker Tour's Season VI Mirage Poker Showdown and Season VII Foxwoods World Poker Finals and won the WPT Season VI Player of the Year award.- Biography :Little was a student at the University of West Florida studying...

 and members of the 2008 November Nine. Over the past few years, Lee has commentated for www.worldseriesofpoker.com, ESPN360.com and the Eastern Poker Tour Championship Tournament

In November of 2008, Cardplayer.com stated “While many people might think of Dan Harrington

Dan Harrington

Dan Harrington is a professional poker player, best known for winning the main event world championship at the 1995 World Series of Poker. He has earned one World Poker Tour title, two WSOP bracelets, and over six million dollars in tournament cashes in his poker career...

 and his green Red Sox hat when they think of poker and Boston, it is really Lee who is the voice of poker in New England.”

Teaching

Lee also caught the attention of the WPT Boot Camp for his teaching ability. Since then, he has taught several camps and is trained to teach both tournament and cash strategies. In 2009, Lee joined the teaching staff of the WSOP Academy as an instructor.

Personal history

Lee was educated in the New England area (Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 BA, MA; Babson College

Babson College

Babson College is a private business school located in Wellesley, Massachusetts near Boston.- History :Babson College was founded by Roger Babson on September 3, 1919, as the Babson Institute. It was renamed "Babson College" in 1969...

 MBA).

Lee currently lives just outside of Boston, Massachusetts with his wife of over ten years and two children.