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Michael Craig is an American lawyer and author best known for his 2005 book, The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King (ISBN 0-446-57769-3). Craig has written about poker since 2005 for Card Player and Bluff magazines, and wrote Michael Craig's Journal online, about his adventures in poker and as a working author. He now writes for the Full Tilt Poker Blog by Michael Craig.
Craig finished seventh in the $1500 Mixed Texas hold 'em event at the 2007 World Series of Poker, earning $22,813. A week later, he made his second World Series of Poker final table, again finishing seventh in the $1000 SHOE (alternating rounds of Stud, Hold 'em, Omaha, and Stud Eight-or-better), earning $15,943. At the start of the 2007 Series, he released The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide - Tournament Edition, which he edited and wrote with Andy Bloch, Richard Brodie, Chris Ferguson, Ted Forrest, Rafe Furst, Phil Gordon, David Grey, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow, Huckleberry Seed, Keith Sexton, and Gavin Smith.
Michael Craig (born Michael Gregson 27 January 1929 in Poona, Maharashtra, British India) is an actor, best known for his work in film and television in both the United Kingdom and Australia.
Film credits include: Sapphire, Doctor in Love, The Iron Maiden, Modesty Blaise, Turkey Shoot and Appointment with Death.
TV credits include: Arthur of the Britons, The Emigrants, Rush, The Professionals, Shoestring, Triangle, Tales of the Unexpected, Robin of Sherwood, Doctor Who (in the serial Terror of the Vervoids), G.P., Brides of Christ, Grass Roots and Always Greener.
Michael Craig is the father of Jessica Gregson.
A veritable everyman of stage and screen, both big and small, but relatively unfamiliar to American audiences, Michael Craig is of Scots heritage, born in India to a father on military assignment. When he was three, the family returned to England, but by his eleventh year, they moved on to Canada - where he undoubtedly acquired his North American accent. He left school for the Merchant Navy at 16, but finally returned to England and the lure of the theater. By 1947 he debuted on stage, and in 1953 Sir Peter Hall gave him his first lead stage role. In the meantime he was trying his hand at extra work and had speaking roles by 1954. This eventually led to discovery by Rank Films and a list of lead movie roles into the early 1960s. When his 7-year contract with that company expired he was optioned by Columbia Pictures and his Hollywood career commenced. Yet his American work is perhaps only modestly remembered in two films, ironically co-American productions with the UK, Mysterious Island (1961), and Australia, the Disney TV installment Ride a Wild Pony (1975). By the mid-1970s Craig's TV and film work was heavily concentrated in Australia (where he still resides)and composed a depth or roles, both comedic and dramatic, that has included memorable and solid character pieces as he has matured in age. As a screen writer he has written for and created several British TV series. And he has never been far from the stage, remaining a familiar face in both London and New York theater.







