John Gale

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John Gale
John Gale (2015)
John Gale (2015)
  Personal information  
Date of birth December 13, 1953
place of birth United KingdomUnited Kingdom London
date of death 18th November 2019
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0.$ 890,600
Total prize money $ 3,893,838
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 2
Cashes 19th
Best main event 522nd ( 2006 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title 1
Cashes 7th
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
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Cashes 3

John Gale (born December 13, 1953 in London - † November 18, 2019 ) was a professional British poker player from England . He won two bracelets in the World Series of Poker and once the main event on the World Poker Tour .

Personal

Gale worked as a management consultant prior to starting his poker career . He was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2012 . He died on November 18, 2019 at the age of 65.

Poker career

Career

Gale has played poker since 2004. He won the main event of the World Poker Tour in the Bahamas in early January 2005 . For this he prevailed against 460 other players and received a prize of almost 900,000 US dollars . In June 2005 Gale was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and came in a total of four times in the money; he secured most of the prize money of over 200,000 US dollars with a second place in the variant Pot Limit Hold'em . At the 2006 WSOP , he won a Pot Limit Hold'em tournament and received a bracelet and around $ 375,000 in prize money. At the end of January 2007, Gale finished third at the championship event of the Borgata Winter Open in Atlantic City for just under 450,000 US dollars. In June 2015, Gale secured his second bracelet and won the No Limit Hold'em Turbo of the 2015 WSOP with a prize of just under 300,000 US dollars.

In total, Gale has earned almost four million US dollars with poker in live tournaments.

Bracelet overview

Gale cashed 19 times at the WSOP and won two bracelets :

year Buy-in (in $ ) competition Attendees Prize money (in $)
2006 2500 Pot-Limit Hold'em 0562 374.849
2015 1000 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo 1791 298,290

Web links

Commons : John Gale  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Two-Time World Series Of Poker Bracelet Winner John Gale Passes Away on cardplayer.com on November 20, 2019, accessed on November 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c John Gale in the World Series of Poker database, accessed May 31, 2017.
  3. ↑ PCA - 2005 ($ 7,800 + 200 WPT Main Event - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 31, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b John Gale in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 31, 2017.
  5. ↑ 36th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2005 ($ 5,000 Pot Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 31, 2017.
  6. ↑ 37th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2006 ($ 2,500 Pot Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 31, 2017.
  7. ↑ 2007 Borgata Winter Open - WPT ($ 9,700 + 300 WPT Championship Event - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 31, 2017.
  8. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 1,000 No Limit Hold'em Turbo (Event # 18)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 31, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Gale, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British poker player
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH London , UK
DATE OF DEATH 18th November 2019