Meet the Players

first attended the All-in for a Cure Poker Tournament in 2013 along with fellow committee member Peter Vermette. Jon has been supporting the Poker Benefit Committee since 2014 and joined the Committee in 2023. Jon lives in NYC with his wife Emily and their three kids.

is the very proud father of EJ. He is the former Chairman of the NY State Housing Finance Agency and the State of NY Mortgage Agency and is currently Vice Chairman of Westbeth Artists Housing in the west village. Judd is the founder and former President of CDT, the country’s only affordable housing REIT. In 2017 he played in the WSOP Seniors Tournament with 5,388 players and finished 55th (top 1.1%) and won $9,239! He now plays Omaha Hi/Lo 8 and in April 2024 finished fourth at the Borgata Spring Open. Then in June, just two months shy of his 82nd birthday, he finished First in the Venetian Deep Stack Championship in Las Vegas and won $40,465!

is an Executive Producer at ABC NEWS responsible for GMA3: What You Need to Know and specials on ABC News. She is proud to be a founding member of the MS Hope for a Cure Board of Directors. She met EJ while the two were cheering on their respective football teams at their favorite sports bar. She’s “all-in” to finding a cure for MS, which she believes, will happen in their lifetime.

is a Managing Director at Blackstone. Owen was first introduced to the event in 2018 and has participated ever since in honor of his grandmother who passed away due to complications with MS in 2017. Owen, and his wife Shannon, are excited to be members of the benefit committee and to raise money through this amazing event for such a worthy cause.

feel so lucky to be involved with MS Hope for a Cure. Stacy sits on the MS Hope for a Cure Board of Directors and also serves as the Board Chair of the Jewish Community Project Downtown. Her father suffers from the primary progressive form of MS. Jonathan is the incoming President of Starwood Capital Group. They live with their two boys and two dogs in Manhattan. The Pollack family knows that a cure for MS will be found with money raised from events like this!

is a Partner and Global Board Member at A&O Shearman, where he co-heads the Firm’s Environment & Climate Group and the International Trade Group. He is Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School and has served on numerous boards. Currently he is a board member (and former Board President) for the Human Needs Food Pantry, Inc.

is the lucky guy married to co-chair Eden Lopez-Robles. Their love of poker is one of the things that brought them together and Anthony actually asked Eden to marry him at the poker table. He planned an elaborate proposal at a poker room in Atlantic City and when the dealer turned over the flop, turn and river, it was a Straight Flush (hearts) with the words Eden - Will - You - Marry – Me printed on the cards. When Anthony is not sweeping Eden off her feet he is helping clients find their dream homes as one of the founding partners of the Scott-Robles Team at Douglas Elliman. They are ranked among the top 250 real estate teams in the country. Anthony and Eden live in Westchester with their three children, Briana, Maxwell and Dylan.

joined the fight against MS in 2001 after his wife Karen was diagnosed with relapsing-remitting MS. Realizing he didn't have the aptitude for medical school, David turned to raising money and awareness, forming the MS Walk team “Got Wine?”, which won the award for best new team that year, marking the first and last time he ever beat EJ in anything fundraising related. David is a proud founding member of MS Hope for a Cure’s Board of Directors and is dedicated to the work the organization has accomplished. He is eager for the research we fund to put us out of business, as quickly as possible. Professionally, David is the Vice President of Partner Enablement at Pax8, helping IT Service Providers grow and build value in their companies. He and Karen live in Stamford, CT with their two cats, who are home-schooled.

met EJ playing poker in NYC home games over 10 years ago. She was immediately inspired by EJ’s story of perseverance, hope, love for life and her ability to turn her MS struggles into a positive powerful movement. May has played professional high stakes poker on the East Coast, Vegas and Macau. She has cashed in 17 World Series of Poker events and earned a 3rd place finish in 2014 and a 5th place finish in 2022 in the WSOP Ladies Tournament. May founded Poker for Good in 2018 with a mission to integrate the positive power of poker with nonprofit initiatives to make the world a better place for all.

first attended the tournament as a guest in 2016, and after nine years, has finally learned how to resist the urge to laugh when he’s bluffing at the poker table. As a member of the benefit committee, he has focused his efforts on bringing a new wave of donors and contributors to the tournament each year. Mike is a born and bred New Yorker and lives in Manhattan’s West Village. When he’s not facing elimination from poker tournaments at lightning speed, he works in the NYC capital markets group at Walker & Dunlop.

met EJ through his work as a Board Member of the NYC Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society which he joined in hopes of helping to find a cure for his dad, Greg, and everyone else living with the disease. He attended the tournament for the first time in 2013 and has since joined the committee and made this an annual event with his friends and colleagues. Peter lives with his wife and their three children in Westchester.