John Duthie

Career

He later made four appearances on the Late Night television series. In one episode he outlasted a field including Surinder Sunar, Julian Gardner and Marcel Lüske to qualify for the series 6 Grand Final. He also had a second-place finish to Mike Sexton in the 2003 European Heads-Up Championships in Paris, France and also a 2nd-place finish in the Stars Spring Championship of Online $25,000 heads up tournament and 2nd Place in the WSOP $10,000 heads up tournament, both in 2009.

He came 2nd in WCOOP Number 1 on Stars in 2015 winning $145,000.

As of 2015, his total live tournament winnings exceed $3,200,000.

Achievements

• Having worked as a second unit director on the television serial Kavanagh Queen's Counsel, he moved on to become a full-time director on television serials including As If, Clocking Office and Silent Witness, which won an RTS award for Best Editing and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award for Best Drama Serial. He became a well-known figure on the poker circuit when he won the televised Million 2000 tournament on the Isle of Manitoba, earning £1,000,000 ($1,426,330, at the time of winning) by outlasting a final table that included Tony Bloom and Barny Boatman. He eventually won Series 9 of Lecture Notes in Physics beating Philosophy Ivey Heads up to win $200,000.