“Miami” John Cernuto, who has extra dwell poker match cashes than anybody in historical past, is in hospice care at his dwelling in Las Vegas, in response to Girls in Poker Corridor of Famer (WiPHOF) Jeanne David.
Cernuto, who turned 81 final month, is an old-school poker legend. He is been among the many prime gamers talked about for the Poker Corridor of Fame, although final 12 months was his first of really being a nominee.
Allen Kessler expressed his concern on social media for the whereabouts of Cernuto, whom he hadn’t heard from in days. David defined in a tweet why her good friend and fellow poker professional had been unresponsive to tweets and calls.
Leaving his Mark on the Poker World
PokerNews has discovered that medical doctors anticipate Cernuto, who was identified with prostate most cancers, to move away “any day.” The combined video games star has left fairly a legacy within the poker world.
Cernuto has 597 dwell match cashes, tops among the many practically 700,000 gamers tracked on The Hendon Mob. Roland Israelashvili is in second place with 574 cashes. Ari Engel, who simply received a LA Poker Basic occasion, is in third place at 565 cashes.
“Miami John,” born January 10, 1944 in Jersey Metropolis, New Jersey, racked up over $6.4 million in dwell match earnings. He is received three World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and two World Sequence of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) rings, and has over $2 million in WSOP cashes. The record of accomplishments additionally consists of 85 identified match wins.
Cernuto, a former air visitors controller who took up poker within the early Eighties after being fired by President Ronald Reagan, has made an impression on the sport in additional methods than simply his play. He is impressed many others to take up the sport and served as a mentor for gamers corresponding to actor James Woods, a Los Angeles combined recreation participant and a WSOP common.
Woods, who considers Cernuto one in all his shut pals, made a robust case final summer season for “Miami John” to be inducted into the Poker Corridor of Fame, in an interview with PokerNews.
“After I went to M.I.T., the very first thing they stated while you undergo orientation, the one of many professors right here stated, ‘chances are you’ll not study quite a lot of info right here, however you are going to discover ways to suppose.’ What (Cernuto) taught me to do is how to consider poker. John thinks about poker higher than anybody I’ve ever met in my life. Perhaps Ari Engel additionally, and I do know Ari very properly, he is a very good good friend,” Woods stated.
Woods, who practically misplaced his dwelling within the Los Angeles wildfires final month, praised his good friend’s accomplishments on the felt and the impression he is had on the sport as explanation why he must be within the HOF.
Cernuto’s Situation
David, a detailed good friend of Cernuto’s and a 2024 WiPHOF inductee, stated she’s planning to go to the poker legend on Sunday. She defined that “Miami John’s” well being has been deteriorating for some time.
“He is been sick for a very long time, he had prostate most cancers however it appears to have unfold,” David stated. “He is been battling for some time however he determined a number of months in the past to cease the remedies and simply dwell out his life.”
David stated that she believes Cernuto has been in hospice take care of “a couple of month” and that his well being situation took a “unhealthy flip of occasions” in current weeks.
The poker professional’s son has been taking good care of him throughout hospice care. Cernuto, a Florida State College graduate, is likely one of the all-time greats, whether or not or not he reaches the Poker Corridor of Fame, an achievement that he is lengthy desired.
