He has been a poker teacher since 1995, with his students having earned well over a million dollars in tournament play. He has numerous poker tournament wins and placings, the most prominent being third place in the 1987 World Championship. He said there are three problem hands in my book Middle Limit Holdem Poker (co-authored with Jim Brier) in which you Bob Ciaffone is one of America’s best-known poker players, writers, and teachers. I recently received an interesting phone call from one of my poker students.