Before John started playing poker he was a very well known track athlete in university where he competed in a lot of the running events. You might wonder why John looks so fit at the poker table compared to the stereotypical poker player and it’s because he trained hard throughout his younger years and still enjoys training to do this day, but on a much lighter scale. After university John spent some time selling bibles door to door and then stopped that to start playing poker.

John Juanda is one of the most well known poker players in the world and is more established then almost every other poker player. John has won four WSOP bracelets so far in his career and zero WPT titles although he has come very close in the past. Juanda has made the final table in WPT events a total of six times already, but hasn’t been able to capture that title yet. Over his career John has 16 money finishes on the WPT and 45 money finishes on the WSOP circuit.

During 2001 and 2002 John really tore up the poker circuit and made many of his money finishes in those two years. Through his excellent play in these two years of poker John was named the Card Player Magazine Player of the Year both years. John has won a WSOP bracelet four times as mentioned before with those coming in 2002, 2003, 2003 and 2008. As you can see John took a little pause from winning any WSOP bracelets after 2003, but he managed to make a nice comeback in 2008 winning the $10,000 NL Holdem Main Event which was a big accomplishment for John. Most of the friends that John plays house games with have four bracelets so he was really gunning to get one in 2008 and he did so in one of the biggest events of the year which was great to see.

John is also apart of the FullTilt.net Poker Team which is a big team of professional poker players who all play online at Full Tilt and where Full Tilt clothing at live events.

John has accumulated a little over $9 million in live tournament earnings in his career which has him right near the top of the leaderboard for all-time earnings. John has proved he has a very versatile game and many of the worlds best poker players will admit they fear Juanda. He is a very unpredictable player and you really never know what you’re going to get from him when he sits down at the table. He has excellent reading abilities and can tell when you’re weak nine times out of ten which is why he is one of the world’s best poker players.