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John Shipley (poker player)

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John Shipley is an English professional poker player from Solihull, West Midlands. He has cashed at the World Series of Poker, including a seventh-place finish in the 2002 $10,000 no limit hold'em main event worth $125,000, and a money finish in the same event in 2000. He was invited onto the sixth season of the Late Night Poker television series but did not progress from a heat that included Victoria Coren and Tony Bloom. In October 2004 he won the European Poker Tour London event, taking 200,000 euros, about $359,479. By 2008 his total live tournament winnings exceeded $820,000, and he plays online at PokerStars under the alias Sapphire1.

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  • Lead paragraph, competition results
    Amongst his money finishes at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) are a 7th-place finish in the 2002 $10,000 no limit hold'em main event, where he earned $125,000.
  • Competed In: World Series of Poker, Poker career
    Amongst his money finishes at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) are a 7th-place finish in the 2002 $10,000 no limit hold'em main event
  • Plays: Poker, Lead sentence
    is an English professional poker player from Solihull, West Midlands.
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