Curt Kohlberg

Curt Kohlberg started playing poker for fun as a freshman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and especially excelled in five-card draw and seven-card stud. He kept a high grade-point average in the Isenberg School of Management, he won the school intramural racquetball and paddleball championships, he maintained a sports column at the Daily Collegian and he even started his own business selling T-shirts at rock concerts.

Curt Kohlberg's poker style is said to be aggressive. He has said that he has become more careful and conservative over the years, but the aggressive nature is still there. Kohlberg has come up with his own analytical "Game Theory" approach to poker. "There are probably 17 or 18 situations that I’m going to make a play on if everything lines up properly," he once said. "Otherwise, I’m going to play a basic game that focuses on playing fairly tight, nothing tricky, just capitalizing on others’ mistakes. That’s how I play."

Curt opened the eyes of the poker world when he placed 5th at the $10,000 Grand Prix de Paris in a World Poker Tour (WPT) event in July, 2005. He has enjoyed other tournament successes and he has participated in a few World Series of Poker (WSOP) events but has not won a bracelet, although the way he plays he probably won't have to wait long until that happens.

Fun Facts:

• At the prompting of his wife, he entered a $500 buy-in tournament for seven-card stud at Foxwoods. He won the tournament and returned three days later to join the World Poker final event, and was again victorious. He took home $130,000 from the Connecticut Casino.
• Was accepted to the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• He and his wife have two daughters, and are currently living together in Weston, along with Kohlberg's son from his previous marriage.