John Juanda Loses House…
Well, John Juanda didn’t exactly lose his house, but with the money he (almost - he managed a comeback after writing this post, but it is still a great story) lost from flipping you could have bought a very nice one.
After about 4 hours of $8k flips on FullTiltPoker.com, Juanda (who we suspect was intoxicated judging by his awful chat skills) typed into the chat box:
John Juanda: im stuck 320 fcking thousand here
About 2 minutes later, like a true degenerate gambler, he asked flipament expert Ziigmund if he wanted to do $40k flips. Ziigmund agreed, then proceeded to take another $80k of Mr. Juanda. Even after Ziigmund told Juanda he was leaving, like a crack fiend asking for one more hit, Juanda typed “2 more” into the chat. Unfortunately Ziigmund was long gone by then, and Juanda was left down $400k.
Most people would probably be grabbing the noose to shove around their neck at this point, but not Mr. Full Tilt Pro. Juanda started another table where he continued to do more $8k flips. One of the players that took him for around a few $100k and was up over $300k from $8k flips on the night, ICallSoWhat, couldn’t resist and joined in on the action with another high stakes player, LoLina. The two were multi-table flipping as they knew Juanda was just too profitable to pass up on.
Juanda continued to try to entice them to do a $16k flip, but neither player would have a peice of it. Juanda managed to actually scrape back about $100k at this table, but then decided to try his luck over at the $16k cap table, where the stakes were doubled.
Juanda managed to scrape back around $50k before I logged off, but chances are he ended up losing it all back, as his competition wasn’t really willing to risk as much as he did in these games.
EDIT: Actually I was wrong, he made back about another $200k more, so in the end he was still down $100k. He posted this chat as he left:
John Juanda: i was stuck 440k
John Juanda: ended up losing 100k
John Juanda: not too bad
John Juanda: :-)))
John Juanda: lost a Mercedes McClarran then got it back:-)))
John Juanda: gn guys
The whole situation was best summed up by another Full Tilt Pro, David Oppenheim in the chat:
David Oppenheim: learn chat and watch the pros act like idiots
To check out these gambling degens doing stupid things live, head on over to Full Tilt Poker.
danny said
am July 30 2008 @ 3:58 pm
by the time juanda quit…he was back to being down 100k…so made a little big of a comeback
admin said
am July 31 2008 @ 8:22 am
Thanks for repeating what we already said above