John Dolan is one of this year’s November Nine. As a part of this elite group, he is one of 9 players still in the hunt for the title of World Series of Poker Main Event Champion, an outstanding honor and great accomplishment for the person able to best the field. When play begins again in November, Dolan will have a chip count of 46,250,000.
John has shown that he is capable of gutsy play throughout the WSOP tournament. When the other players were attempting to play it safe and coast into the final table, Dolan stayed aggressive. With only 2,175,000 in chips on Day 8, things weren’t looking to great for John. He had one of the tourneys shortest stacks. That would slowly change. Throughout Day 8, he committed to building his stack and was able to do so and stay in the tournament and thus, in contention.
Born in Bonita Springs, Florida, John Dolan began his poker career online. He was able to catch on extremely quickly and begin winning lots of money online. His screen name, ‘JRD312’ was consistently seen at some of the world’s most popular online poker websites. Throughout Dolan’s career, he has managed to amass more then $700,000 in MTT winnings at PokerStars. He has won an additional $434,000 at Full Tilt Poker. John Dolan’s largest online cash to date has been $94,500. He won these monies in Full Tilt Poker’s $1 k Monday, which took place in 2009.
Aside from being an online poker ace, Dolan has done pretty well at World Series of Poker events. This year, aside from making it to the November Nine, he finished in 6th place in the $1k No Limit Hold’em event and won $82,804. He placed 32nd in the $1500 NLHE event and pocketed an additional $13,541. Still in the hunt for a first place finish in this year’s WSOP, John Dolan has the chance to win nearly $9,000,000 which would be his biggest cash and poker-related accomplishment to date.