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Written by Mathias | Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Like many other strapping young poker pros, John Dolan quit college to play poker. Also known as “JRD313,” this Florida-born and raised poker player has that young gun luck. Though poker didn’t come all that easy at first, his passion for the game held his attention while he worked a couple of small jobs that included the role of poker dealer to support his bankroll. It wasn’t long before he was taking first place in online poker tournaments left and right. He frequented the small tourneys at first like the PokerStars Sunday Warm-up, the PokerStars $200 Sunday Rebuy, and the Full tilt $1K Monday. He consistently won, and it wasn’t long before he had run up a winnings total of more than $1.2 million; he then decided to move his game from online to live.
Dolan’s first live event win was in 2009 at a side event at the Gulf Coast Poker Championship with a buy-in of $300. He cashed in first with almost $33K. It was clear that the skill and luck that graced his game online was also good live.
The 2010 WSOP was his first WSOP and he cashed in 6th place in a $1K event winning $82K+ only to turn around and land a spot at the final table of the Main Event where he now sits with 43 million chips, second-stacked.
Despite Dolan’s success, though, he doesn’t believe he made the right choice when he dropped out of Florida State for a career in poker. “I definitely left school too early. I ran really good in the beginning and ran up a decent bankroll, but really had no clue what a downswing consisted of at high stakes. I wasn’t really prepared to drop out,” he says.
Dolan is a good American kid, and you really want to see him win. With only 20 million chips short of chip leader, Jonathan Duhamel, and the skills to sink a ship, he actually has a good chance of taking home the 2010 WSOP Main Event bracelet.
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