John Duthie is the brains behind the European Poker Tour (EPT), but he isn’t just a skilled businessman. He became the first player to win a million-dollar payday in a televised poker tournament when he took down the prestigious Poker Million event in 2000. He’s also cashed in many other big events since then, and came close to winning a WSOP* bracelet when he finished as runner-up in the $10,000 World Championship Heads-Up event in June 2009 for $386,636. John finished second for $250,000 in an event in the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). You can find him at PokerStars using the screen name ‘JohnDuthie’.
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by John Duthie I've had a fairly hectic couple of weeks traveling around the globe; part pleasure, part business. I arrived back on Wednesday last week from a family holiday to India having flown London-Delhi, Delhi-Calcutta, Calcutta-Bagdogra, Bagdogra-Delhi then Delhi-London. It was an amazing trip and if you've never been...more
Having bubbled in the $5,000 Omaha tournament the previous night, I was pretty determined to do well in either the SCOOP $25,000 heads up or $10,000 main event. The HU field looked pretty grim being full of some of the best HU players in the world, but I knew that...more
Most every poker player has had those months. Fewer people are willing to talk about it, and even fewer will take any blame for it. John Duthie is a different breed, though. The first half of his World Series was not one he necessarily cared to remember. The second half...well,...more
As far as poker is concerned there's no flash start to grab your attention. Unlike motor sport or football or um, chess, there's no early moment that shapes the rest of the game. Instead poker has a more organic evolutionary period, rendering the first half hour uneventful as most...more
What a day: eight hours of gruelling, energy-sapping heads-up play to determine who would take the coveted WSOP bracelet for topping the $10,000 World Heads-up Championship. If those of us on media row covering the best-of-three final were running on empty by the end, imagine how the players felt. Team...more
After a long, long first match, which Team PokerStars Pro John Duthie came from behind to win, the second was over quickly in favour of Leo Wolpert. There was not much Duthie could do, after a bout of pre-flop raising they saw an ace-high flop - Duthie had A-K but...more
