Ali Nejad, whose full name is Oliver Nejad, is an American television host and commentator born in San Francisco on 25 February 1978. He has worked on air since he was seventeen, beginning with a local NBC affiliate show in the San Francisco Bay area, and returned to television in 2002 after several years as a full-time poker player. He became best known as a poker broadcaster: off-screen announcer on Poker After Dark and color commentator on the National Heads-Up Poker Championship for NBC, then correspondent and commentator on ESPN poker coverage. He has also hosted programs on ESPNU and, from May 2014, on the cable network HLN, where he hosted The Daily Share, and he executive produced and hosted his own award-nominated show, The Social Life. For a period he co-hosted the Poker Road Radio podcast.
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is an Iranian-American television personality
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former co-host of the Poker Road Radio podcast
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