Jesse May
Jesse May was raised in Madison, New Jersey, where he first became hooked on poker playing with friends. In 1988 he started the University of Chicago, but he found that classes were clashing with his poker games, and so dropped out. For six years Jesse travelled the world playing poker.
May found fame presenting the Late Night Poker television series. He also appeared in a season 1 episode under the pseudonym Mickey Dane. This pseudonym is in fact the main character in his poker novel, Shut Up and Deal .
May has continued to be involved in poker commentary on other shows and often commentates alongside Padraig Parkinson who has said that it surprises him that May plays so little poker when he is such a good player.
Jessie has recently been banned from wearing his signature brightly coloured suits by the TV and has also been forced into having a more conservative hair cut leaving us with just the memories of his spikey highlighted head top designs of the past.
Speaking with him at breakfast this morning, he said that he now has a wardrobe of redundant suits and is not sure what to do with them.
