Mark "The Red" Harlan was born in Rawlins,
Wyoming, and has lived exactly the life you'd expect as a
result. Armed with a degree in Applied Mathematics (from a
university he loathes so much that he refuses to even utter the
name), he fell headlong into a 20-year stint in the Silicon
Valley's computer industry.

Red's professional experience includes human-interface work
at Apple Computer, development of the bidding schema used by eBay,
overseeing application development at Danger (makers of the
T-Mobile Sidekick), as well as co-founding CyberArts Licensing
(suppliers of the poker software seen on the MANSION and GamesGrid
sites).

At the tender age of 8, he won a pinewood derby competition in the
Cub Scouts, giving him his first heavy swig of victory that would
forever warp his oh-so-soft-and-pliable mind. Under the influence
of this experience, he started playing poker that same year
("might as well win money if you're going to
win") and became good enough by 2005 to be a net money winner
in that year's World Series of Poker.

Red is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors
and has an extensive writing background ranging from penning
InfoWorld's Notes from the Fringe during the heyday of
the Internet, to being lead author of the book he thinks everyone
should own (his mom does): Winning at Internet Poker For
Dummies (Wiley).

Red maintains a Web site of poker articles at www.redsdeal.com and
welcomes non-spam e-mail at RedsDeal+HEFD@gmail.com (be sure to
include the +).