{"id":31639,"date":"2013-08-10T08:20:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T07:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=31639"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:52:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T12:52:51","slug":"a-history-of-the-world-series-of-poker-berry-numbers-johnston-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/a-history-of-the-world-series-of-poker-berry-numbers-johnston-1986.html","title":{"rendered":"A History of the World Series Of Poker: \u2013 Berry &#8216;Numbers&#8217; Johnston (1986)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Berry-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-29943\" \/><\/p>\n<p>1986 was the year the Ferris Bueller taught us all not to take life so seriously and the three words on everyone&#8217;s lips were Rock Me Amadeus. Meanwhile in Las Vegas though Berry Johnston had a couple of life objectives when it came to his number one passion in life &#8211; poker. <\/p>\n<h3>1. To make a living playing it.<\/h3>\n<p>Check. Since 1982 when Johnston placed 3rd at the WSOP, he has finished in the money 45 times, and accumulated over $2 Million in live tournament winnings. <\/p>\n<h3> 2. To become a World Champion.<\/h3>\n<p>Ditto. Johnston (nicknamed &#8216;numbers&#8217;) became World Champion in 1986 and placed 3rd and 5th in the 1982 and 1990 World Series respectively. He is also a member of Poker&#8217;s Hall of Fame, being inducted in 2004:<\/p>\n<h3>The Great Poker Player&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>Fellow Hall of Famer Doyle Brunson said of Johnston: &#8220;What I admire most about Berry is not Berry the great poker player, but Berry the man. He is a deeply religious and devoted family man, who has always been a gentleman at all times.&#8221;  Indeed. Johnston is widely known as a gentleman at the tables, and a very well respected member of the poker fraternity.<\/p>\n<h3>Get All The PartyPoker News!<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=partypoker\">Subscribe and stay up to date with all thing Premier League VI<\/a><\/strong> and get all the latest PartyPoker updates from your favourite social media outlets. You can <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/partypoker\">Follow us on Twitter<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/partypoker\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/strong> and find us on<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103316751505288317781\/posts\">Google+<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1986 was the year the Ferris Bueller taught us all not to take life so seriously and the three words on everyone&#8217;s lips were Rock Me Amadeus. Meanwhile in Las Vegas though Berry Johnston had a couple of life objectives when it came to his number one passion in life &#8211; poker. 1. To make<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/a-history-of-the-world-series-of-poker-berry-numbers-johnston-1986.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":31640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31641,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31639\/revisions\/31641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31639"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}