Berry Enfield Johnston (born September 25, 1935) is an American professional

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player. He is best known as the 1986 World Champion, but he has also won four other

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at the

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in addition to cashes and wins in many other tournaments throughout his career.

Poker career

Johnston won the 1986 World Series of Poker Main Event, and placed third in 1983 and

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and fifth in the

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, respectively. He has made at least 29 final tables at the WSOP and has finished

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on at least 66 occasions. He has also cashed ten times in the WSOP Main Event, more than any other player. His most recent cash in the Main Event came in 2007, when he finished in 113th place in a field of over six thousand players, for which Johnston won $58,570. Having cashed in at least one event every year from 1982–2010, Johnston holds the record at the WSOP for longest cashing streak at 29 years. Johnston cashed three times in the

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, including tenth place in an Omaha Hi/Lo event, and he is currently 42nd on the WSOP all time money list. He is also currently ranked in fourth place for the WSOP all-time cashes list with 57 cashes as of the end of the 2009 series. Johnston is still competing at high levels of poker today. Johnston has also played on the

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Series, most recently in 2008 among some of his fellow World Series of Poker Main Event Champions. Berry finished fourth in the tournament, which was won by

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. The other world champions in the tournament were

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, and

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. He was inducted into the Seniors Poker Hall of Fame in the early 1990s and

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in 2004. Johnston was the only inductee in the 2004 class. As of 2010, his total live tournament winnings exceed $3,450,000. His 60 cashes as the WSOP account for $2,075,527 of those winnings.World Series of Poker Earnings
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References

External links

Official site

{{DEFAULTSORT:Johnston, Berry 1935 births Living people People from Bethany, Oklahoma American poker players World Series of Poker bracelet winners World Series of Poker Main Event winners Super Bowl of Poker event winners Poker Hall of Fame inductees