Matt Savage

Matt Savage is one of the founders of the Tournament Directors Association (TDA) and a well-known figure in the poker industry. He has played a crucial role in standardizing poker tournament rules worldwide and has been instrumental in shaping modern tournament poker. Matt is a 5 time GPI award winner, 9 time Poker Hall of Fame Nominee, and starred in the Warner Brothers movie Lucky You. He currently lives in Las Vegas with his lovely wife Maryann, daughter Rizaann, and son Marko.

Matt Savage on recent wrong hand winning controversy

Cards Speak and They Always Should!

Editors Pick, Live Poker / By Matt Savage

I am going to take one more chance to give my opinion using TDA rules on the recent hand that everyone is talking about from Maurice Hawkins recent win. You can see in the video, the third place finisher Divyam […]

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The Untold Story of TDA Beginnings

Live Poker, News / By Matt Savage

2025 marks a third of a century working in the poker industry, and an industry that I never anticipated to be in when I was a clueless 18-year old high school graduate. My parents never wanted me to be in

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