Ali Nejad, Date of Birth

Ali Nejad

Iranian poker player

Date of Birth: 25-Feb-1978

Profession: sports commentator, poker player

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Oliver "Ali" Nejad (born February 25, 1978) is an Iranian-American television personality, who has hosted several shows including "Road Trip" on ESPNU, and has served as a fill-in host for "UNite," also on ESPNU.
In May 2014 Ali began working at HLN and hosted the network's programs The Daily Share .
He also executive produced and hosted his own award nominated show The Social Life. Though he has worked on-air since age 17 on a variety of projects, he is also known for his work as a poker commentator.
Nejad served as the off-screen announcer on NBC's Poker After Dark and the color commentator on NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
He has also served as a correspondent for ESPN.com's World Series of Poker coverage, commentator for ESPN's Pro-Am Poker Equalizer series, co-commentator with Chad Brown on the Ultimate Poker Challenge series, and alongside Daniel Negreanu on the PCA 2009 series.
In 2014 Ali hosted Alpha 8 for WPT. Nejad has made 3 appearances as a player on commentators week on Poker After Dark.
In his first appearance, he finished 6th after Gabe Kaplan flopped a set of 10's to his set of 4's.
In the 2nd, he finished 2nd to winner Mark Gregorich; and in the 3rd appearance he finished 5th, again being knocked out by Kaplan.
He is a former "friend of Full Tilt Poker" and former co-host of the Poker Road Radio podcast on pokerroad.com.