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2010 November Nine preview – John Racener
Posted by: Randy Williams - Sat, 2010-07-31 09:57
John Racener may be a virtual unknown to most online poker players and poker fans, but that doesn’t mean he’s a new face at the green felt. Most of the big live poker names know him well, as he’s been playing and cashing in various WSOP-C events in recent years.
Racener has
started playing poker at an early age. He was about 16 when he asked his mother to make a $50 deposit for him at an online poke site. That moment was the starting point of an online career, which would prove to be more than successful in the coming years. His $50 had swollen into $30k, about two years later.
Racener wasn’t one of the players who allowed poker to mess up his academic career. He graduated from Florida Southern with an associate of arts, having taken a break from poker. As soon as he could though, he returned to the virtual green felt, and continued building his bankroll.
His 21st birthday was a huge milestone for his live poker career. It was then he made his first ever live final table, finishing 3rd in the WSOP-C’s Atlantic City Main Event. That move earned him a $103,527 prize, setting him firmly on track for a stellar run at subsequent live events.
His first WSOP-C win came exactly a year after his first final table, in the very same Atlantic City event: Racener raked in a $379k reward that time and established himself as one of the
WSOP-C big guns.
Adding his online winnings to his live tally, one would get a sum well in excess of $2 million.
Taking a 19 million chip stack into action at the November Nine table, Racener’s primary goal is a victory in the Big Dance.
