It’s safe to say Mike Schneider has found his niche. In his favoured sport of short-handed limit hold’em he is one of the toughest and most successful players in the world. He has been beating the $100/$200 games since 2005, and is now part of the elite cadre of pros at CardRunners.com.

Like many young pros, Mike honed his poker skills at college. He took up the online game in 2002 – just before the boom – and quickly discovered a talent for limit hold’em. By the summer of 2003 he was winning more every night than he’d make all week at his crappy data entry job.

In his second year of college Mike started smashing his way through the levels, leaving $2/$4 behind for the $10/$20 six-max games.