James Worth was born in Toronto, Ontario Canada in 1969. He has brought much pride to his home country with this growing fame as a worldwide poker player. He is also famously known by his online player name of KrazyKanuck. James’ 2007 Player of the year ranking was at 891, and his winnings have totaled to $694,574. James Worth has earned himself seats at some of the world’s largest poker tournaments. In the 2007 World Poker Tournament No Limit Hold’em Championship (with a $25,000 buy-in) James Worth won 16th place winning him a total prize of $123,760. In the 2006 Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic, James came in 72nd place taking home $25,370 in prize money. Later that year, in the 2006 North American Poker Championship No Limit Hold’em, James came in at 4th place which was one of his highest ranks since the beginning of his career as a professional poker player. His winnings in the 2006 North American Poker Championship totalled $289,760 in prize money. The first time that James Worth came in 4th place in a championship was a few years earlier in 2004/2005 at the WSOP Circuit Event – Harrah’s Rincon No-Limit Hold’em Championship where he won $158,840.
James is an active writer for Bluff Magazine. In his latest article titled Parlaying Online Experience into live results, he retails his account at the 2007 WSOP. “This year’s WSOP had the all the big-name professionals that we all have seen on TV. What was different, though, was that in the massive 8733-player Main Event, there were probably hundreds, if not thousands, of “professional” online players with a wealth of experience from their play online. You may be sitting with nine unknown faces at your table, and to underestimate their skill levels can prove to be a tournament-ending experience for you. My bust-out hand was against an unknown internet player who played the nut hand about as well as it could possibly have been played. And he got me to put all of my chips into the middle with my secondnut hand. It was no fluke. He had won his seat online and was a student of the game. His play was something that I would expect from Phil Hellmuth or Phil Ivey, not from an unknown young kid sitting at my table. I had seen, over seven weeks of play, such aggressive yet weak play that I underestimated the kid’s hand and it ended my day.”
In another chronicled article, James Worth describes his climb in the poker tournament, as he writes: “Day 1 was all about surviving the landmines and trying to pick a good spot to gain some chips. I struggled throughout the day, picking my spots, staying out of big pot coin tosses and slowly and steadily picking up chips. I didn’t over-commit to pots against players who I knew would be willing to gamble for large pots; instead I tried to win the pots either pre-flop or on the flop, with strategic betting and plays. It was working amazing well for the better part of the day, considering I wasn’t getting very many big hands to play with. I was hitting my suited connectors and low pairs for decent-sized pots, but not doubling up. We started with 20,000 in chips and within about four hours, I was up to about 28,000, through good play. I took a hit about an hour before the dinner break when I lost set over set in a 25,000 pot. That knocked me down, but I wasn’t out.”