“It felt good,” Jonathan peanut172Peacock (pictured) told PocketFives about finishing third in the PokerStars Sunday Million in mid-December. “It was weird because I was having a horrible day at the time. I was like $5,000 in the hole with one table left and wasn’t in the best of moods, but I just grinded away. It’s weird because I don’t feel any different. I was disappointed to not get top two, in all honesty, but I can’t feel bad about getting third.”

Did we mention that third place in the December 16 Sunday Million on PokerStars was worth $119,000? First place and $223,000 went to KOLOKOS, while a $164,000 bankroll boost for third place went to fish2013. Nearly 7,500 players turned out for the final Sunday Million before the holiday season and 1,080 of them landed in the money.

Peacock went into the final table in second place, while fish2013 held the chip lead after winning a pot with jacks versus nines. Our interview subject explained, “fish2013 was to my left, but I couldn’t really open as much I would normally. There were three or four players with less than 10 big blinds. When we got three-handed, the guy who won went down to less than two big blinds, but won a few pots.”

He narrated how the rest of the final table panned out: “There was a huge pot where fish2013 opened the button. He had opened 100% against the guy in the small blind, who 3bet. With 20 big blinds, I had 9-9 in the big blind, decided to go with it, and lost a flip against A-K. In hindsight, I think it was a bad shove by me due to his 3bet range. He had been very tight and that was pretty much it for me.”

Peacock lives in Durhamin the United Kingdom and has been a member of PocketFives since early 2010. What are his plans for the money? We talked to him right before Christmas, when he said, “I don’t have any plans yet. I’m saving it mostly, but my girlfriend has other ideas. She wants to go to New York, but I told her she will have to settle with Edinburgh in January for UKIPT. Also, I’m currently backed and would like to go on my own, but I think I need a little bit more to be able to.”

He has a tattoo that says “Made in Durham” on his lower back and is quite proud of his residence in the northeast of England. His crowd back home seems to be relatively supportive of his poker endeavors over the years: “They are really supportive. I think they understand to a certain extent. They just ask, ‘How did it go last night,’ and normally they can tell by my face if I lost or not. My Mom normally makes me sandwiches and meals on Sundays and puts them in the fridge for me. She knows Sundays can be stressful.”

He was a student at the University of Manchester, but ultimately left to go home. He’ll now start playing poker full-time and has come a long way since playing freerolls online. When he made his first deposit, he pointed out, “I was terrible! It wasn’t until my friend proudflopstarted to take it seriously that I started crushing the Six-Max Turbo Sit and Gos on PokerStars. He helped me a lot and I started making a $1,000 a month from sit and gos. I then hit a $4,000 score in a $16.50 Turbo MTT and have played MTTs ever since.”

Peacock is 23 years old and is looking forward to playing five or six days a week to begin his full-time poker career. We asked him if the games have changed since he began playing online. His response: “iPoker, Ongame, and PartyPoker were always soft in the mid-stakes games. PokerStars is full of regs and has huge fields, so not much has changed there really. I’m not saying that PokerStars is harder than others. It just has larger fields, so the variance is bigger. Full Tilt is definitely the hardest though.”

In the first half of 2012, Peacock won a $50 tournament on the Ongame Network for $27,000 and also took down the Big $22 on PokerStars for $10,000, among other scores. He has nearly $450,000 in tracked cashes on PokerStars alone.

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