Player Profile: STIAN ‘JohnnyBelow’ STABELL
Scandinavia is a real hotbed of online poker these days. The tables at Pinnacle Sports Poker are full of aggressive players from these countries, and the game is still growing in popularity throughout the region. One of the hottest young poker players from the country of Norway is Stian “JohnnyBelow” Stabell. The 24-year-old native of Kirkenes, Norway, has been one of the best online multi-table poker tournament players in the world over the last two years.
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JohnnyBelow, or Stabell as he’s known at some online tables, has averaged more than one money finish every day over the last two years, and has taken down numerous cashes of over $20,000 in that timeframe. His recent big cashes include a win in the $215+R NL Hold’em [$250,000 guaranteed] on PokerStars on October 19, earning $48,750.00; a win in the $240 buy-in Sunday Brawl on FullTiltPoker on July 6 for $61,533.00; and another win in the $300 buy-in, Big Deal $150,000 on PokerRoom on September 7 for $40,650.00.
One week he won the Full Tilt $65k Guaranteed for $16k and then made the final table at both the PokerStars Wednesday Hundred-Fifty Grand and the Full Tilt $1k Monday. Those two scores were worth a combined total of $38,000. Most of his bigger cashes have come over the last eight months, and the next couple of years will show how talented the young JohnnyBelow is. If he continues to cash at this rate it won’t be long before he cracks the top 20 of the online rankings.
He currently ranks No. 42 on the poketfives.com online multi-table tournament rankings, as he has steadily climbed up over the last two years and continues to improve how deep he goes into tournaments. Stabell started playing poker seven years ago after a friend introduced him to the game. He’s strictly a multi-table tournament specialist, and only plays small stakes Omaha and limit hold’em to break the monotony of the tournament grind.
Stabell says that his success lies within his patience. He’s a very good small-stack player and can pick his spots well when there’s an opportunity to make a move. His favorite hand is pocket tens; with which he claims to never have lost. Outside of poker he’s a fanatic about the game of football (soccer).
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