Friday, 29th March 2024 01:00

John Howlett

Ireland

John Howlett is a 33-year-old software engineer from Ireland who enjoys poker, motorbiking and UFC. Howlett won his Platinum Pass in the Road to PSPC event in Dublin in July 2022, banking a £22,700 prize as well. He adds that to his career earnings of around $41K.

Howlett’s experience playing poker started young, when he would play five-card draw around the kitchen table with his parents and grandparents.

Although he has shown some success on the local live circuits, Howlett’s biggest poker score was online, and an achievement that most poker players can only envy. In 2013, he won the Sunday Million for more than $110,000 — and has since final tabled the same event, earning $30k.

As soon as he had taken down the Road to PSPC Dublin, Howlett wanted to go straight home to tell his partner face to face that he’d won and that she was coming along in January. He says he is “excited to play a very big event and to see the Bahamas.”

 

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