WPT Career Stats
| Stat |
Value |
Rank |
| Career Earnings |
$136,965 |
597 |
| Cashes |
1 |
944 |
| Final Tables |
1 |
109 |
| Titles |
0 |
112 |
| Tournaments Played |
3 |
2393 |
|
John Hom was born in China but came to the United States when he was four years old. He grew up in the San Francisco, California area where he has lived ever since. After attending college, he became an engineer â a soils engineer, to be exact, who studies the engineering properties of soil for foundation support and landslide stability. Poker was a long-time hobby for him, though, and by the mid-1990âs, he was spending a great deal of his free time on weekends and vacations playing poker.
While limit holdâem was Johnâs specialty, he did rather well in no-limit and Omaha games as well. He claimed his first tournament victory in 1995 at the $1,000 limit holdâem event at the Legends of Poker in Los Angeles, he made the final table of a WSOP limit holdâem event the following year, and the impressive finishes kept accumulating from there.
Finally, in 2002, John won his first WSOP bracelet in the $3,000 limit holdâem tournament for his biggest cash to that point of almost $175,000. What had eluded him for a number of years, however, was a World Poker Tour cash to put on his resume. With so many WSOP appearances and cashes, it wasnât until 2007 that he got his chance at a WPT title. He played a super satellite to win his entry into the World Poker Challenge in Reno, and his A-game took him all the way to the final table for a fifth place finish. John may never be a full-time pro, by his own choice, but itâs a guarantee that heâll be at more final tables when work permits.
