Imagine playing poker in Las Vegas and waking up one day and finding out you're the #1 ranked poker player in the world. That's the life of 28-year-old Jesse Lonis, a Little Falls High School graduate (about 20 miles east of Utica, NY), who is also now the 177th all-time largest earner in big-stakes poker, tallying nearly $9 million in winnings to date, and he's far from done.