Often, when big names in the poker world are tossed around amongst fans of the game,
John Juanda’s name is📈 left out. It’s not that he hasn’t had a deserving career, but
rather his quiet nature that sometimes leaves people📈 to forget about how great a player
he really is.
Intro
John Juanda is a professional poker player of Chinese-Indonesian
origin currently📈 residing in Marina del Rey, California. He is known for winning five
World Series of Poker bracelets first of which📈 he collected in 2002 by winning
theR$1,500 Limit Ace to Five Triple Draw event for almostR$50,000. He was also one📈 of
the founders of the infamous online poker site Full Tilt Poker.
Background
Born in
Indonesia, Juanda came to the United States📈 in 1990 when he enrolled at Oklahoma State
University. After graduating from OSU, John went on to receive an MBA📈 from Seattle
University. In order to help with the cost of school, Juanda worked various jobs on the
side. One📈 of his jobs had the high school track star selling bibles from door to
door.
When not working or attending class,📈 Juanda spent time in local casinos, where he
began honing his skills in poker. It didn’t take long for Juanda📈 to realize that poker
was his calling. In 1996, John completed his MBA program and took to the West Coast
📈 felt. In order to seek out larger stakes, Juanda relocated to California.
World Series
of Poker
After sticking it out in cash📈 games and smaller buy-in tournaments, Juanda set
out for the WSOP in 1999 where he cashed in two events. The📈 following year, he cashed
again at the WSOP and also earned a second-place finish at the United States Poker
Championships.
Just📈 a couple of years later, in 2002, Juanda was able to put together a
nice string of five cashes at📈 the WSOP, one of which earned him his first bracelet. The
next year, Juanda returned to the WSOP and landed📈 himself two more bracelets. In 2008
Juanda won his first WSOP Europe bracelet by taking down the WSOPE London Main📈 Event,
good for overR$1.5 million.
John Juanda's Top 5 WSOP Results
Year Event Place Prize
2002R$1,500 Limit Ace to Five Triple Draw📈 1stR$49,620 2003R$2,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo
Split 1stR$130,200 2003R$2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha 1stR$203,840 2008 WSOPE £10,000 Main
Event 1st £868,800 ($1,580,096)📈 2011R$10,000 No-Limit Deuce To Seven Draw
1stR$367,170
World Poker Tour
Aside from his five WSOP bracelets, Juanda also has a
record of📈 making six WPT final tables and nineteen money finishes; however, his WPT
title collection is still empty. Juanda came close📈 to winning a WPT event in 2002 when
he finished in second place at the Five Diamond World Poker ClassicR$10,000📈 No-Limit
Hold'em Final event. He lost that heads-up match to Gus Hansen and took home
almostR$280,000 for the runner-up finish.
John📈 Juanda's Top 6 WPT Results
Year Event
Place Prize 2002 Five Diamond World Poker ClassicR$10,000 No-Limit Hold'em - Final
2ndR$278,240 2004📈 WPT Invitational Main Event 3rdR$18,000 2012 WPT World
ChampionshipR$100,000 Super High Roller 3rdR$526,320 2004 Mirage Poker ShowdownR$10,000
No-Limit Hold'em Final📈 Day 4thR$162,012 2004 Ultimatebet Poker ClassicR$6,000 No-Limit
Hold'em Final Day 5thR$130,000 2006 North American Poker Championships C$10,000 North
American Poker📈 Championships 5th C$217,320 ($193,003)
European Poker Tour
Juanda has a
total of three European Poker Tour money finishes on his record. He📈 made his first EPT
cash in 2009 when he finished in 40th place at the EPT London Main Event. His📈 biggest
achievement on the European circuit came a year later when Juanda came back to London
to fall just short📈 of the title losing the final play to the young Scottish prodigy
David Vamplew and finishing the Main Event in📈 second place for £545,000.
John Juanda's
Top 3 EPT Results
Year Event Place Prize 2010 London £5,000 Main Event 2nd £545,000
2012📈 Barcelona €5,000 Main Event 8th €76,100 2009 London £5,000 Main Event 40th
£14,200
Other Achievements
If it’s consistency you want, John Juanda📈 will deliver. Each
and every year, Juanda has put up numerous cashes and deep runs along the tournament
circuit. He’s📈 even proven that he is a force in tournaments outside the U.S. His three
most significant finishes outside of the📈 States come with first place at the 2006 Crown
Australian Poker Championship for overR$700,000, a second-place finish at the 2012
📈 WSOPE Cannes €50,000 Majestic Roller event for €600,000, and a fifth place at the 2012
Macau High Stakes ChallengeR$258,000 Super📈 High Roller good
forR$1,645,753.
Sponsorship
John Juanda was one of the nine poker players who founded
the Full Tilt Poker online poker📈 site and represented Team Full Tilt colors in live
tournaments until the site seized its operations in 2011.
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