Weekly RankingHero Highlights

'Imagine if every time we won a hand of poker we were able to give a child a life-saving injection. Imagine every time we won a poker tournament we were able to put an impoverished person through school. Imagine if poker was seen as a way of touching people’s hearts; as a device to do well.'

'If it wasnt for my parents and family pulling me through it I probably wouldn't be here today.'

'..to my baby brother and all the armed forces around the world serving for a rightful and just cause, single parents that do it on their own, and people that stand up for what they believe in those are my heroes'

The RankingHero community continues the MoreThanMoney discussion on our love for the game and the many - not necessarily heroic - faces of our heroes in life and poker. Thank you, @Mark Duguid, @ShiShiFed, and everyone who shared! We are looking forward to more great posts about the great people in our lives to whom we turn for inspiration and support!

RankingHero Community on Poker&MoreThanMoney and Lee Davy on Doing Good, Gandhi and Philipp Gruissem

Mark Duguid - Blog Post - Ranking HeroRanking Your HeroesEveryone has their heroes in life but my main heroes are my parents/family. You go through life meeting many people but in actual fact the only people stood by your side the whole way is your family. I have had many moments in life where I have been in trouble and had many battles to deal with along the way. If it wasnt for my parents and family pulling me through it I probably wouldnt be here today.www.rankinghero.com

ShiShiFed - Blog Post - Ranking Heroto my baby brother and all the armed forces around the world serving for a rightful and just cause, single parents that do it on their own, and people that stand up for what they believe in those are my heroes #morethanmoneywww.rankinghero.com

Check out Poker Bits&Picks: 7 Fights, 13 Bad Beats, and a $1 Million GTD Event! for some great poker reads and videos, and follow @Lee Davy (How Guns and Online Gambling Give Me a Headache) and @Robbie Strazynski (Time for even recreational players to switch away from No Limit Hold'em?) for more links to interesting articles.

Good luck to @Bruno Menet at @Casino de Gujan-Mestras and to all our members who will be taking the RankingHero patch to live tournaments or who will be playing for the 1,000 Golden Chips for the Grand Prix Million at @Dusk Till Dawn!

Special welcome to @Mantas Zeringis @Egi Adriaans @Moshe Azuelos @Bruno Michels @Romain Meyer @Arnaud Etchebarne and the many players who validated their profiles in the past week! Good luck at the tables and keep us posted :)

Congrats to new members @Giancarlo Palleschi and @Duncan Riches on their recent cashes at @Niagara Fallsview Casino and @The Hippodrome Casino London!

And speaking of the Hippodrome and of heroes - tomorrow, February 23rd, the legendary venue will host the British Poker Awards ceremony to honor all the heroes of UK poker. We will be there to welcome them as a TBPA partner and official bar sponsor :)