John Eames might be a young poker professional, but he is no Moneymaker boomer.  John has grown up among the elites of the game. He has found success on both the virtual and actual felt, accumulating more than $3 million in career earnings. Having found success on the live tournament circuit, John has made many deep runs in EPT and WSOP events over a relatively short period of time.

For many poker players, the transition from online to live has its struggles, even for players such as John who have amassed over $1,000,000 in online earnings. However, John took the live tables by storm, showing innate ability to beat them too. In 2009, when John began hitting the live tournament circuit with purpose, he crushed the game for $252,000 including 6 final table appearances and one first place finish. To most, a year like that would mark the height and fall of a career, but not John. In 2010 he proceeded to double his earnings from the year before, taking in over $550,000 in live tournament earnings.  It was during this year that John had three 6 figure scores including 2 first place finishes, one in the EPT Vienna 2k buy in side event for $172,000, and the other for a $10K High Roller event at the Full Tilt Poker Series Grand Final in Barcelona. All the while John was still tearing apart the online scene, proving his versatile abilities as a 21^st century poker pro.

In 2011 there were still no signs of John slowing down his incredible run. He was continuously dominating the tables, whether they were there to touch or flashing on his screens. He found success early in the year, making a deep run in the Denmark DKr 35,000 EPT main event, coming in 3^rd place at a final table crowded with Hold’em specialists, including the likes of Michael Tureniec. John found himself $257,000 richer after that day and went on to pull in $620,000 for the year, thanks to a $136,000 score at an EPT Side Event. As far as a poker career is concerned, John has achieved success that most poker players could only dream of. In 2012 John made 3 cashes in the 43^rd annual WSOP in Las Vegas, including an 8^thplace at the $1500 Pot Limit Hold’em Event.

John also lends his extensive poker knowledge to training, writing strategy articles and offering tips to aspiring poker players. In his articles John has emphasized staying sharp and he embraces a strategy which is designed to keep his opponents guessing. Other pointers he embraces are to avoid playing a routine game, to switch up your style and to stay aggressive. Not everyone can change their style mid stride, but this skill is an integral component to becoming an accomplished poker pro. John has mastered the tangibles and intangibles of the game of Hold’em. He has hopes of diversifying his poker game by playing a variety of card games.  However, John is a Hold’em specialist at heart, with a “let’s go to war” attitude. Nowadays you can find John in the online poker rooms as well as in the major tournament circuit.