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Jon 'Skalie' Kalmar is a professional poker player from Chorley in Lancashire, not 'Chorleyville' as numerous 2007 WSOP reports told us was his home after Jon’s form filling shenanigans in Vegas! Before discovering poker, Skalie was once the lead singer in a punk rock band and could be heard at blonde bash four, pre-competition, extolling the virtues of The Stiff Little Fingers to a frankly perplexed table of twenty some-things.

Before entering the 2007 WSOP main event, Skalie admitted to enduring a "terrible" run at that year's Series. He failed to cash in any of the preliminary tournaments. However everything changed the night before the Main Event began. Dejected, he tried to switch his airline ticket and return home early, but was told the cost to change his departure from Las Vegas back to England would be over $600. Instead, he decided to enter the last mega-satellite at the Rio just before the start of the Main Event. He ended up in the final 17 winning a $10,000 seat and proceeded to swap various percentages of himself with friends and long time associates with whom he had been staying on his trip.

The rest, of course, was history as Skalie went on to finish 5th in the Main Event for $1,255,069.

Last year Skalie took nearly $80,000 from a high finish in the Five Star World Classic WPT event.

Associated with and now sponsored by Ladbrokes Poker for many years, Jon has recently set up a blog www.skalie.org in which he describes himself as "Well basically a fat lazy bloke who found out playing poker was easier than working"

Be warned, Skalie tells me "I dont do mornings so don't expect early responses"

Notwithstanding that Skalie will be on this thread http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=40216.0 during the next week to answer your questions.....