Poker Player Profile: John D’Agostino
John D’Agostino has made quite a name for himself playing poker online over the last five or more years of poker tournaments, if not recently in World Series of Poker events, more exclusively in other major poker tournaments even held in the casino. First showing up in early broadcasts of the World Poker Tour as a relative unknown, D’Agostino has showed up with deep runs in several major online poker events, including the United States Poker Championships (where he memorably took one of the worst beats of recent tournament memory: where Hoyt Corkins moved in blind against his blind with two low cards and D’Agostino called with pocket 10’s, only to have his opponent outdraw for most of his chip lead). He has also appeared on broadcasts of High Stakes Poker.
If for no other reason, D’Agostino is a fantastic player to watch for his ability to put extreme reads to the test by putting his chips on the line when he believes he is ahead. His slightly unorthodox methods of making clinch decisions to move against players in any instance he thinks he can steal the pot are well balanced by his ability to play careful and aggressive poker. Though he is perhaps not the most often spoken of among the bevy of national pros, D’Agostino is in a way a poker player’s poker playerone most anyone could learn from watching.











