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John Cynn is an American professional poker player from Northbrook, Illinois most known for winning the WSOP Main Event. Cynn came up just short of the November nine back in 2016 when he finished 11th, but came back in 2018 to win the event outright for a cool $8.8 million. Cynn also graduated from Indiana University Bloomington, where he studied finance and supply chain management.
The 2018 WSOP Main Event would attract the second-largest turnout in WSOP Main Event history as the 7,874-player field created a prize pool of over $74 million. Following the abandoning of the November Nine concept the previous year, the final table played out in July with each player guaranteed $1 million in prize money as…
John Cynn and Tony Miles squared off for the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event title in what turned out to be an epic heads-up showdown. On the final hand of play, Tony Miles made an extremely gutsy move and put his tournament life on the line with a pair of eights. John Cynn,…
Jiang Xia He has won Event #1: $25,000 Short Deck, the first of the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Super High Roller Series held at Casino Sochi this week, for $378,000, after seeing off a total field of 42 – his final four opponents within minutes of each other. His fortunes wavered early on at the six-handed…
The WSOP Main Event brings out the best and the worst in some people as Remko Rinkema and Drew Amato found out close up on a day of disqualifications, Phil Ivey busting and even a force 7.1 earthquake which shook the Rio. But what about the players? Well, it turns out that some are…
The second-biggest WSOP Main Event in poker history saw a vast swathe of players descend upon the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino as the largest single-day field ever took part in the most famous old tournament. Day 1c of the 50th World Series of Poker Main saw incredible drama, with disqualifications, the busting and booming…
