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John Juanda
Indonesian poker player (born )
In this Chinese Indonesian name, the family name is Juanda (εΊ„).
Johnson "John" Juanda[2] (born 8 July )[3] is an Indonesian[4] professional poker player of Chinese nedstigning based in Tokyo, Japan. He has won five World Series of Poker bracelets.
Personal life
[edit]Juanda was born into a Hoklo family in Medan, North Sumatera, Indonesia on 8 July He was a high school track star for the meter sprints to meters races. Juanda arrived in the United States in to enroll at Oklahoma State University. He earned an MBA from Seattle University.[2]
Juanda is fluent in both Mandarin Chinese and English. He currently resides in Tokyo, Japan.
Poker career
[edit]In both and , Juanda was Card Player Magazine's tournament Player of the Year, winning four World Series of Poker titles, and a World Poker Open Championship title.[5] In November , he won the inaugural Professional Poker Tour ev
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John Hennigan (poker player)
American poker player (born )
John L. Hennigan (born August 10, ) is an American professional poker player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who, in his career, has won seven World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour (WPT) title.
Hennigan is nicknamed "Johnny World" because he is willing to bet on anything in the world.[3]
World Series of Poker
[edit]Hennigan finished 19th in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10, no limithold'em main event.[4][5]
In April he made the final table of the WSOP $1, seven-card stud event and won his first bracelet just four days later in the $2, H.O.R.S.E. event, taking home the $, first prize after defeating a final table including Men Nguyen and Phil Ivey.[6][7]
In , he won his second WSOP bracelet in the $5, limithold'em event, defeating a final table that included James McManus, David Chiu and T. J. Cloutier.[8]
Hennigan made another tw
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Biography
John Eames is a British poker player. In , he made it to the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event.
In , he won the WSOPC Planet Hollywood Main Event for $, and his first WSOP Circuit ring.
England&#;s John Eames will be one of the toughest players to beat at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final table, and he has plenty of chips to push his opponents around.
The British poker pro has been on a steady rise since Day 1 of poker&#;s most prestigious annual tournament. He more than doubled his starting stack each day leading up to Friday&#;s final table where he enter in fifth place with 54,, chips (46 big blinds).
Eames has quite the impressive resume, both online and live. During the poker boom era he was known as an online whizz and has crushed it in that arena for many years. But he&#;s also quite the accomplished live tournament player, having cashed for $ million heading into the WSOP Main Event, according to Hendon Mob.
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