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Poker News Daily can independently confirm that Steve “gboro780” Gross has signed with DoylesRoom to become the sixth member of the Brunson 10. The legendary Doyle Brunson, the site’s namesake, has handpicked the group of rising poker stars.

Gross sits atop the PocketFives.com Online Poker Rankings and holds the prestigious leaderboard’s top Pro Poll and PLB scores. In February 2009, Gross took down the PocketFives.com Monthly PLB title by edging out fellow Brunson 10 member Chris “moorman1” Moorman by a slim 0.39 points. Gross is also a Triple Crown winner on PocketFives.com. Capturing that accolade involves winning three $10,000 prize pool tournaments across three sites tracked for the Rankings within a seven-day period.

Gross’ list of tournament victories is quite impressive. Over the course of the youngster’s illustrious career, Gross has won the Absolute Poker $150,000 Guaranteed, Absolute Poker $1K, and multiple PokerStars $100 rebuys. Many will fondly remember Gross’ epic battle heads-up against James “Andy McLeod” Obst at the final table of a $3,150 PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) tournament last April. Gross ultimately fell to Obst, but nevertheless banked $128,000. He won the aforementioned PokerStars $100 rebuy in both February and March for a combined $165,000.

No official press release about Gross’ signing has been sent by DoylesRoom at the time of writing. However, officials from the site confirmed his Brunson 10 membership to Poker News Daily and a statement is due out on Wednesday. In two months, Gross will likely take the DoylesRoom flag and head to the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas. Gross final tabled a $1,000 No Limit Hold’em with Rebuys event two years ago for $57,000. All told, he’s amassed $83,000 in career WSOP earnings.

Also recently added to the Brunson 10 was Alex “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis. Like Gross, Kamberis is a Monthly PLB winner on PocketFives.com. In addition, he’s taken down three Triple Crowns. In 2008, Kamberis made his presence known by finishing third in the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event, earning $782,000. Ultimately, that year’s WCOOP Main Event featured a five-way chop. According to DoylesRoom, Kamberis has over $4.2 million in career earnings. The 23 year-old hails from Skokie, Illinois and cashed in this year’s PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event.

Besides Gross and Kamberis, other members of the Brunson 10 include Moorman, Dani “ansky” Stern, Amit “amak316” Makhija, and Zachary “CrazyZachary” Clark. The group lost original member Alec “traheho” Torelli, who defected to Victory Poker, but its signings of Kamberis and Gross bring the total number of Brunson 10 members to six. The stable will eventually grow to include 10 men and two women, a play on Brunson’s signature 10-2 hand.

Over the weekend, Moorman won the Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl. The win in the weekly high-stakes bounty tournament earned Moorman $109,000 and he knocked out 21 players en route to victory. Moorman, one of the top British players in all of poker, sits at #5 in the PocketFives.com Online Poker Rankings, owning the second best Pro Poll score.

Kamberis, meanwhile, will wear DoylesRoom gear to a bevy of live poker tournaments, including the World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship and Grand Prix de Paris. He’ll also head to the European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo Grand Final in Monaco next month. You can spot Kamberis in 10 WSOP tournaments this year, including the $50,000 Player’s Championship and $10,000 Main Event.

DoylesRoom is a member of the USA-friendly Cake Poker Network, whose roster of sites also includes Cake Poker, Lock Poker, Players Only, Red Star Poker, and Stryyke. The network is the 10th busiest worldwide in terms of cash game traffic according to PokerScout.com, with a seven-day running average of 2,050 real money ring game players.

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