Level 4: Blinds 100/200/25 ante
Total Event 1 Entries: 523
Cards are flying again after the break.
John Gale (Bushey, Hertforshire, England)
John Gale is making a big splash in his return to poker after a three-year hiatus. He’s been away from poker while battling a brain tumor and having open-heart surgery. Nine years after winning his first WSOP bracelet in the $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em event (good for $374,849), he returned to Vegas last summer and claimed his second bracelet in the $1,000 Turbo No-Limit Hold’em event (good for $298,290).
Despite the three-year gap, John has career earnings of more than $3.7 million going back to 2005 and even has one Borgata Open title from 2008. His largest single career cash was in January 2005 in the WPT/PCA Championship. That $7,800 + $200 NLH event earned him a spot on the WPT Champions Cup and more than $890,000.
Displaying his wry sense of humor, he said the following in a interview with Poker News after his bracelet win at the 2015 WSOP:
“The last three years I’ve spent in and out of hospitals having all sorts of surgeries. I’ve missed the last three WSOPs, and I’ve been miserable as hell every time. I’m just so thrilled to be back here even though my doctor told me I shouldn’t fly. I said I’d compromise, I’ll take a plane.
“All unsuccessful on the brain tumor, which surprise, I thought you had to have a brain before you got a tumor on it.”