We currently cannot confirm Nizot Skizared’s identity, although all clues seem to point to the fact that he’s Joe Cassidy. According to some sources, he’s even confirmed his identity once, but that too is something of a rumor, so we can’t go 100% on it. Some people have speculated that he may be Jamie Gold, but that just doesn’t really seem plausible.
Nizot Skizared is one of the smoothest operators of the high stakes online poker scene. He plays at Full Tilt Poker (and he’s rumored to have an account at PokerStars too), and even though he goes as high as $2,000/$4,000, you won’t hear or read a lot about him in the media. The reason is probably that he’s a limit poker specialist. Railbirds are attracted to tables where the spectacular all-ins occur, and limit poker just doesn’t make top-notch reporting material for most poker news outlets. He doesn’t chat a lot either.
Nizot Skizared couldn’t care less about the attention he receives though. He does fine at the limit Holdem, HORSE and 7-game tables and he’s obviously not really looking to make a name for himself – he’s content with the money he makes at the tables.
If Nizot Skizared is indeed Joe Cassidy that means he’s an accomplished tournament player too. He has no fewer than 27 cash finishes in various live poker tournaments, some of them resulting in rather spectacular profits. In 2004, he finished 2nd in the NL Holdem Main Event of the United States Poker Championship, taking down a $363,780 prize. His latest 6-figure haul came in December, 2009, in the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond world Poker Classic, where he finished 7th for $154,747.