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[Tinsel Town]

Hi all.

I was watching the ESPN reurns of the 2004 WSOP on Player yesterday.

They were covering the very first NLHE event final table at that years series.

The $400,000 and bracelet was won by then 24 year old Londoner John Vogl.

Now, I'm a Johnny-come-lately to all this poker fun so what's happenned to this chap?

He said he was a backgammon player really and didn't really enjoy playing poker(??) and
put his win down to luck!!

Anyone know of him!!

 

p.s For all I know he could be a regular poster on here and if so  and 

[ericstoner]

Hi Tinsel, by the way he's name is James,not John.He has worked in the city for some time, and is carving out a career there. The way he was going, soon the $400000 he won may be small change.

[temp0r]

my bro has played against him a few times in a lonodn home game. they're both apprentices to big rich investment bankers now i believe. he was still playing a fair bit at the gutshot after his braclet win but only really for fun in the tourneys and hasn't been seen there for some time. he's a great player but why gamble when you can making a garunteed grand a day in the city by the time you're 30?

[ariston]

Very strange thing happened 3 weeks ago when I was in london on some business. James intoduced himself to me and asked me to look over some articles he had written for a newspaper column that will be starting in the next few weeks or so. He is indeed a city trader now and doing very well away from the table but still plays quite regularly at the vic. Very sureal to have a bracelet winner asking me for oppinions on his articles on poker I must admit (they were veru good by the way). He was a very pleasant gentleman and I don't think we have heard the last of him just yet on the poker scene- have a feeling he may win another big one somewhere along the line reading some of his thoughts on the game in his articles.

[Ironside]

i met james in the vic not long after his win he was down to earth and didnt seem to be showing the cockiness you would expect from a 24yr old bracelet winner while we sat at table i knew him as james and when i took padraig out he gave me a nod of the head, later when i picked up some chips and some confidance and made a move or 2 he said it was nice to see me trying to play poker, it wasnt till the next day that i someone mentioned his surname and i realised i had sat and played poker for many hours with a bracelet winner

i later saw him win his bracelet on tv and afterwards when he claimed it was just luck was a huge understatement having watched him for hours close up the boy can play poker

[tikay]

i met james in the vic not long after his win he was down to earth and didnt seem to be showing the cockiness you would expect from a 24yr old bracelet winner while we sat at table i knew him as james and when i took padraig out he gave me a nod of the head, later when i picked up some chips and some confidance and made a move or 2 he said it was nice to see me trying to play poker, it wasnt till the next day that i someone mentioned his surname and i realised i had sat and played poker for many hours with a bracelet winner

i later saw him win his bracelet on tv and afterwards when he claimed it was just luck was a huge understatement having watched him for hours close up the boy can play poker

Not only did you sit on the same table as a bracelet winner that day at The Vic about 2 or 3 years ago, (you were in Seat 1, Mark Banin in 2, James in 5, me in 6, Pippa in 7, Padraig in 9) but you sat on the same table as me. NOW you are impressed........

James nearly got busted early doors that day by Mark Banin, who did a real Oscar winning act with the Aces, but James fought back impressively.

I later bumped into James a few times at Gutshot, & got on OK with him.

Going back to that night at The Vic, I remember it especailly for you busting a certain guy who proceeded to call you "the world's luckiest bast***", which, in a black humour sorta way, stuck in my mind....

Pippa Flanders was on the table too, doing her "I don't have a clue what I am doing" act, whilst busting out player after player. She flopped the stone-cold nuts, milked them every street, called the all-in on the end reluctantly, saying "I suppose you got me beat" only to then exclaim "oooh, look, I got the nut straight, sorry"..... LOVED her from that day on.

[Tinsel Town]

Thanks for the feedback folks.

He certainly seemed very laid back and modest.

Indeed he made me laugh at the end of yesterdays show.

He was sitting having his photograph taken with the bracelet
and cash. The photographers were asking him to hold up a
bundle of the cash but he said wouldn't as he was 'British
and it is a little vulgar' 

Good on him!!

 

[snoopy1239]

James played in the Scandinavian Open in January.

Bizarrely, I received an electric (static, or whatever) shock when I shook his hand...

... so I believe he may be possessed by demons.

[AdamM]

he was up 'til january, now you have them

[Ironside]

tikay i remember the hand well with james and mark

james had already been paid off a couple of times so wasnt in too bad shape after his queens got taken down by marks aces

then there was the chatter about james not thinking mark would make such a moody with the aces

i can remember the guy sat next to pippa and man you have aged about 15 years since then sorry to say mate you did look alot younger

mark was actually in seat 3 i remember this well as i raised on the button with AKd after 3 limers only for mark to pushed all in from the BB to this day he hasnt told me what rags he pushed that week shy player off the AKd with, although i had the last laugh when i made the money

[Royal Flush]

James played in the Scandinavian Open in January.

Bizarrely, I received an electric (static, or whatever) shock when I shook his hand...

... so I believe he may be possessed by demons.

pmsl

[El Yortle]

I watched the broadcast of the WSOP event, and remember the commentators being quite harsh on him.

[ripple11]

He played the European classic  at the Vic the other week, and was on my table at the start. He was all in after about 5 hands !....but after winning that, he played well, bossing the table so well, some guy offered to see him outside !!

The acticles Ariston mentioned, are appearing in the new Sportsman newspaper.

[luckyjim]

i am still alive and kicking but poker exploits have been rather sporadic over last couple of years as busy with trading.
have started writing a 'poker problem' type hand in the sportsman newspaper on wednesdays and sundays.
all i remember about that hand was some guy waiting about 10 mins before raising with the aces...
can't stand holywood bs like that... but i should have used it to my advantage as he was not good enough to act like that without a monster.
i will make it the focus for next article. thanks for all the benign comments and any article feeback is more than welcome.
james

[ripple11]

 
 Have been trying to remember to buy the Sportsman on wed. and sun. each week, as its good to see a national paper giving Poker some good coverage.
Interestingly the guy who offered to see James outside in the car park!, gets a write up today.