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Lon McEachern (; born ) is an American sports commentator most known for his hand-by-hand commentary of the World Series of Poker on ESPN. He is known as the "voice of poker".
McEachern attended Santa Barbara City College and was a baseball teammate of future-MLB player Jesse Orosco. He later attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated in 1980 with a B.A. in communications. While enrolled at UC Santa Barbara, he worked at the campus radio station KCSB-FM.
In 2002, ESPN reached out to McEachern, who was working as a mortgage banker at the time, to cover poker. He was brought back in 2003 alongside Norman Chad for the 2003 World Series of Poker. The tournament was won by Chris Moneymaker and led to the Moneymaker effect and a corresponding surge in poker's popularity. McEachern continued as a mortgage banker for nearly five years, doing poker coverage for ESPN on the side. As of 2017, he has covered every World Series of Poker main event since ESPN acquired the broadcasting rights.
McEachern also covered play-by-play of the PBA Tour during the alongside color analyst Randy Pedersen.
In 2007 McEachern was the commentator for Pride 33 along with fighters Frank Trigg and Josh Barnett.
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