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John Juanda got his MBA at Seattle University, but his most useful education may have
actually come on the weekends when he was learning to play poker at nearby
casinos.
"Perhaps the most underrated and neglected superstar in our game today is John
Juanda," Daniel Negreanu wrote in a blog post years ago. "Without question, John has
been the most successful tournament player in the world over the last five years."
"His
consistency is unrivalled. If you had to pick one guy to make a final table, your best
bet would be John Juanda, hands down. Yet I'll often read the message boards on the
Internet and notice that John's name is rarely mentioned among the list of
greats."
John Juanda's results speak for themselves and prove his place among the
greats. He's earned more thanR$24.6 million playing in poker tournaments alone since
his entry into professional poker in the late ‘90s, making him one of the winningest
poker players of all time.
Marbles for Money
Though Juanda didn't learn to play poker
until he went to college his gambling roots run back much further, to his childhood in
Indonesia.
John Juanda was born the first of four children July 8, 1971, in Medan,
North Sumatra. He spent many years of his childhood living with his grandparents while
his parents worked to start up a business in another city.
Being apart from his parents
didn't keep him from being exposed to his father's vices. He liked to drink and gamble,
which never made for a winning combination, and in typical do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do
fashion, he kept telling Juanda not to gamble.
Juanda apparently didn't heed that
advice as he started playing marbles for money in grade school. Gambling wasn't a huge
part of his life growing up though. Instead he was a well-liked, yet well-grounded
child who was a track star in high school.
As the firstborn, John Juanda was favored.
He didn't let it go to his head, however, partially because of how his parents raised
him but also because the firstborn has the responsibility to help care for the family.
That duty led him to the United States for his college education.
It was on his flight
to the U.S. to start his college education at Oklahoma State in 1990 that he actually
got his first taste of poker. A friend taught him how to play poker during the flight,
so even though he spoke very little English when he stepped foot on American soil, he
knew a game that's practically interlaced with the country's history.
Poker is Juanda's
Next Career Move
It wasn't until John Juanda wrapped up his undergraduate degrees in
marketing and management at Oklahoma State and moved to Seattle to work on his Master's
that he got more involved in poker.
He worked a variety of jobs to pay for school,
including being a stock broker and selling Bibles. Though a self-proclaimed lifelong
Buddhist, Juanda won awards for his Bible sales.
On the weekends in Seattle he headed
to the local casinos to play poker. He honed his game and figured out quickly that he
could make money playing.
As John Juanda said in a Seattle University story, "I'd spend
12 hours playing poker, then go home to sleep, and I couldn't wait to get up and play
again the next day."
After he completed his MBA in 1996 it was apparent to Juanda that
poker was going to be his next career move. With the money he'd bankrolled while
playing on weekends he embarked on becoming a full-time professional player.
He
continued to work on his game at casinos and card rooms on the west coast, eventually
settling near Los Angeles to find the bigger-stakes texas hold'em games.
John Juanda
Heads to WSOP
It wasn't until 1999 that John Juanda got up his courage to enter his
first major tournament. He'd been regularly cashing in low buy-in tournaments but this
was an event at the World Series of Poker - aR$1,500 Limit Hold'em event.
He placed
ninth in a field of 609 players and the following week came in seventh in theR$3,000
Limit Hold'em event. At a final table filled with the likes of Josh Arieh, Humberto
Brenes, Howard Lederer and "Captain" Tom Franklin, theR$3,000 event made it apparent
that Juanda was headed for greatness.
If that wasn't enough, the following few years
made it crystal clear. In 2000, he went back to the WSOP and took 10th place in
theR$3,000 Limit Hold'em event. In 2001 he returned to take third in theR$2,500
Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo Split Eight-or-Better and seventh once again in theR$3,000 Limit
Hold'em event.
In the meantime John Juanda continued to play in lower-buy-in events,
only jumping up toR$1,000 events here and there. Then in 2002 he hit his stride. He
cashed in five different WSOP events, with 3 final tables and one his first bracelet
win.
Less than two weeks later he followed that win up with a second place finish at
the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic. It was his biggest cash to date,R$278,240,
and also started a streak of final tables that lasted through the end of the year. Two
more WSOP bracelets came in 2003 among his six cashes at the series.
A WSOP Europe Main
Event Championship to Come
The list of John Juanda's poker success goes on and on after
that with cash after cash in tournament after tournament. Perhaps his most renowned was
his epic win in the 2008 WSOP Europe Main Event.
Juanda battled it out at the final
table in London for over 19 hours before defeating Stanislav Alekhin heads-up to seal
his first WSOP Main Event crown and £868,800. His London success continued in 2010 when
he finished second in the EPT/UKIPT £5,000 Main Event for £868,800.
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During this time John Juanda was also a prominent face in the Team pro lineup
at Full Tilt Poker and was often on televised cash game shows.
Another bracelet in the
2011 WSOP followed ($10k 2-7 Draw) along with a third in the 2012R$100k WPT Super High
Roller, a runner-up in the €50k High Roller at the 2012 WSOPE and a win at the 2013 WPT
South Korea.
He was nowhere near stopping. He won the EPT Barcelona Main Event in 2024
for €1,022,593, racked up huge results at the 2024 Triton High Roller Series and 2024
Aussie Millions before back-to-back 2nd and 3rd in €25k events at the 2024 PokerStars
Championship in Monaco.
In 2024 he won the HK$ 1m Triton Macau Main Event for
USDR$2,870,092 - to date his best live cash. With more final tables at EPT Barcelona in
2024 and the 2024 Triton High Roller Series in Korea, the money just keeps coming in
for John Juanda as he continues with his poker career.
In 2024 Juanda was deservedly
inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. To this day, it's a safe bet to back him as
someone who will make a final table - and to win a huge prop bet.
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A
Buddhist in Life and Poker
There are several things that keep one of the nicest guys in
poker on the winning track. One is his friendly, level-headed demeanour at the poker
table, which can make people think he might be a pushover but is really just a manner
of self-control he's developed through Buddhism.
"I try my hardest to win, but I
respect everyone I play with, and when I lose, I don't get upset," Juanda said in a
Seattle University article. "One of the teachings of Buddhism is to have a sense of
balance. I take satisfaction in doing my best and don't have overly high
expectations."
That philosophy definitely helps Juanda keep from tilting his money away
and it also works well with his strategy of treating professional poker play like a
business. Always keeping a watchful eye on his money Juanda has been a successful
"winning" poker player every year since he started playing professionally.
He's also
responsible enough to invest some of his winning and put some away in savings for the
future.
Another key to his success is the fact that he spoke very little English when
he first came to the United States. When someone was talking to him and he couldn't
understand what he was saying, Juanda would watch their body language and facial
expressions and make an educated guess about what they were saying.
There are poker
players all over the world who can attest to how valuable a talent that is at the table
as they study each other's body language and actions looking for tells. Despite his
skills, it's not his own interest in the game that keeps Juanda playing poker; it's his
success in the game that keeps him interested.
In recent years Juanda has resided
Tokyo, Japan, where he is now based. His appearances in North America are limited but
he continues to rack up scores in Macau, Korea, the Philippines and Europe.
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