John Juanda’s still running deep in big-money tournaments, and the player known by the online screen name ‘LuckBox’ was a staple on televised poker shows of the mid-2000s “poker boom” era. Juanda’s success at the poker table goes back even further than the 2000s, however. John Juanda is best known as a John Juanda. Poker player who has won over four World Series of Poker bracelets. He was born on July 8, 1971 in California. He has competed against fellow World Series of Poker title holder Howard Lederer.
Who is John Juanda?
Born in Indonesia on July 8, 1971, John Juanda is a man who has made poker his life. John came to the U.S. in 1990 to study at Oklahoma State University. He later received his MBA from Seattle University. Juanda has spent some time as a door-to-door Bible salesman, and was also interested in being a doctor, a career he said he would have today if he had never gotten into poker.
The Start of Juanda’s Poker Career
John Juanda
John Juanda started playing poker tournaments in 1996. He didn’t have a major victory until 2001, when he won the World Poker Open Championship. That was the start of a long and glory filled career for John Juanda.
In 2002, he won his first World Series of Poker bracelet, playing A-5 Triple Draw Lowball. In 2001 and 2002, John Juanda was runner-up for Card Player’s Tournament Player of the Year award. Also in 2002, John was named Tournament Champion of the Year. In addition to these awards, Juanda has won three Best All-Around Player awards.
John Juanda has kept rolling along since. In 2004 he won the first Professional Poker Tour event, and made 14 other final tables that year. John achieved fifth place in both the Five-Star World Poker Classic and the National Heads-Up Poker Championship in 2005. The Crown Australian Poker Championship took place in January of 2006, and John Juanda won to take down the 1,000,000 Australian Dollar first prize.
John Juanda Hendon Mob
2006 Poker Wins by John Juanda
Recently, John won $500,000 in Monte Carlo, while playing in the Monte Carlo Millions Main Event, in which he placed sixth, The FullTiltPoker.Net Invitational Live from Monte Carlo, in which he placed second, and in the Monte Carlo Millions Consolation Tournament, which Juanda won.
John and Full Tilt Poker
John Juanda was formally a member of the Full Tilt Poker team, and played online exclusively with his Mac computer.
Cafrino the popular social gaming firm made an announcement of the merger of its poker platforms, National League of Poker and Cafrino. The incorporated platform will be now under the banner of National League of Poker at www.nlop.com. The outcome of the merger is the player database of NLOP of over 1.5 million online poker players. This would be held in Q4 2018.
Post the acquisition of NLOP by Cafrino in the year 2017, the merger is the next step as far as the evolution of the business of Cafrino is concerned. Michael Murphy, the Chief Executive Officer, said that they had planned this consolidation when they took over the National League of Poker. Now that they have taken this step, they are being able to focus on their resources through a single player expertise and would soon take their prize money business model to greater heights.» ( Read more of Merger Of Cafrino And National League Of Poker… )