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gregory brooks

gregory brooks is an entrepreneur and former professional poker player .
he began his poker career as an online player on sites such as pokerstars and then moved to no limit tournaments where he won the 2011 world poker tour l.a. poker classic , defeating vivek rajkumar for a prize of $ 1,654,120 .
brooks is the co-founder of skorb , a venture that he began with his brother in 2011 .
he is also the founder of leggopoker , a community-based website for teaching poker strategy through videos and one-on-one training .
the company was purchased by phil ivey 's iveypoker in 2013 .
brooks also founded the website textbook assault which aggregates pricing of textbooks from multiple websites such as amazon.com , chegg.com , barnes and noble , and ecampus.com .
