February 9, 2006
How's that for composure at the pokerstars freeroll? Doyle Brunson said, "What I admire most about Berry is not Berry the great pokerstars player, but Berry the man. He is a deeply religious and devoted family man who has always been a gentleman at all times. When it comes to tournaments, well, T.J. is probably the best player around, but Berry is right up there with him."
Berry was also cashing in other online poker tournaments like the Triple Crown of Pokerstars com, and the Grand Prix of Pokerstars where he cashed four times in 1986, including a second-place finish for $43,000 in the $5,000 buy-in Deuce-to-Seven NL tourney. Mike Sexton, still new to tournaments himself, finished in the money of the Omaha Hold'em tournament. If that's not impressive, you have to understand that these tournaments were populated by the best around, and players like Jack Keller, Jay Heimowitz, Chip Reese, Tuna Lund, Bobby Hoff and David Sklansky were fighting against them. For what it's worth, Reese, Sklansky, Tomko and Keller all finished in the money more than once and also won an event.
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At the 1986 WSOP, to help celebrate his upcoming 50th Birthday, Berry won the $10,000 top 5 pokerstars .com championship and $570,000. If that's not amazing enough, Berry finished 32nd the following year, and then took a 29th place pokerstars finish in 1989. Flat out, this man is a tournament master. Believe it or not, Johnston has five other excellent finishes in the $10,000 pokerstars com hold'em event, finishing 5th, 17th, 21st and 16th. Who can match that record? To go with those amazing feats, Berry has five gold pokerstars bracelets, including wins in limit hold'em, limit Omaha, and Razz.
"They're making a mockery of the laws and the regulations here because what they've found is a loophole to advertise a site that is clearly - in a covert kind of way - promoting gambling with real money at pokerstars com," Burnock said in a recent interview with the newspaper. Mr. Patterson, who runs Telecaster (Canadian TV station) in addition to playing a pokerstars role at the Television Bureau of Canada, sympathizes with Broadhead but feels that there are lines regulatory agencies shouldn't cross the pokerstars com rooms.
