Player Profile: Johan ‘buston_soon’ Van Til
Johan Van Til is a 26-year-old Dutch online poker player who has been tearing up the online poker tournament scene for two years now. He consistently places high in multi-table poker tournaments, especially re-buy events, and has numerous cashes of over $10,000. Better known as “busto_soon”, Van Til has a combined 58 tournament cashes since January 2007, although he has yet to win any poker tournaments at Pinnacle Sports Poker. He currently holds the No. 23 spot, and has been as high as No. 13 on the pocketfives.com online poker player rankings.
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This past August Van Til had a cash of $46,305 in the PokerStars Super Tuesday and one for $32,700 in the Absolute Poker $100K Pro Bounty Guarantee. In June he had a first-place finish in the Sunday PokerStars $200 with re-buys for another $40,680. Then he had another win in the Full Tilt Poker $100K Guaranteed Re-buy event for $30,416.
In May, Van Til won the Full Tilt Poker $90,000 Guaranteed for $36,366. In March he had a second-place finish that earned him $51,350 in the PokerStars Sunday Warm-up, and a fifth-place finish that earned him $26,507 in the same event two weeks earlier.
Van Til has earned over a half million dollars in online tournaments so far, and he’s just getting warmed up. It was rumoured that he won over 20 WSOP main event satellite seats last year. Like most successful online players he intends to take his skills to the live games, so you likely won’t run into him on Pinnacle Sports Poker just yet.
Van Til recently made this telling statement about his future plans: “I’m going to play a lot of live events the next couple of months. The extremely slow pace of live poker compared to online poker is something I want to learn how to deal with.”
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