Poker pro Allen Kessler has become the latest player to join the team at poker training site IveyPoker.

Known as the Â"ChainsawÂ", Kessler is the 30th member of Team Ivey, the ambassadors for the website set up by top poker professional Phil Ivey.

Kessler boasts over $2.6m of live earnings, including nearly 30 World Series of Poker cashes and 18 WPT championship event cashes.

All in all he has 180 live cashes to his name, including 70 final tables and 14 tournament victories.

An IveyPoker statement said: Â"The Â"ChainsawÂ" is by no means a player to be taken lightly, and one can only have mercy for any poker players who find themselves in the unfortunate spot of being his opponent.Â"