The 888 Poker Mega Deepbrought out a field of 748 entrants earlier this month and Carl Johns (pictured), who is known on PocketFives as allinforthelolz, won it outright for $35,000. No, it’s not a joke. Instead, it was Johns’ third largest online MTT score to date. He won the Super XL version of the tournament last December for $39,000.

“I’m very happy,” Johns told PocketFives. “It’s one of my favorite MTTs to play online and to win it is an awesome feeling. It has a very good structure, which allows it to play deep throughout, and I think that suits my game. It’s one of the softest MTTs I play on any given day. I have been successful in it in the past as well as that weekend, so how can it not be a favorite of mine?”

Third place in the Mega Deep that week went to highly successful PocketFiver FaNjkEEE, who can be found at #39 worldwide in the PocketFives Rankings. “He seemed to play well,” Johns told us. “He picked his spots and didn’t get out of line often. I was surprised how tough the field was with 18 left, as a few other Stars regs left in it were causing problems. FaNjkEEE had a big stack all the way throughout the final 18 until around three-handed, but couldn’t seem to get any traction going.”

Johns, who plays on PokerStars under the screen name swansfc_CJ, is nearing $1 million in career online tournament winnings. He plans to use his latest cash infusion to pay back his backers, which he called “real poker player problems.” He also sunk a portion of his winnings into SCOOP, which ended over the weekend.

As we said, Johns won the 888 Super XL Mega Deep last December. He called it an “amazing night,” elaborating, “It was my first night of actually playing MTTs on 888 and to start it like that couldn’t have gone any better.” He has almost $100,000 in total winnings on 888.

Johns got started in poker in small-stakes home games with friends. Then, he moved onto freerolls and began playing more and more. He has recorded almost 3,200 tracked cashes since and cracked the top 300 worldwide in the PocketFives Rankings. He is the top-ranked player in the Welsh city of Swansea.

When he’s not playing poker, Johns enjoys spending time with his girlfriend and watching football. He is a big fan of his local club, Swansea City, and was brought up as a Manchester United fan.

He’s a fan of the high-profile, recurring series like SCOOP and WCOOP. He cashed seven times during the most recent SCOOP and said, “SCOOP is probably my favorite series because of the tiers of buy-ins.”

The UK player closed by sending a shout out to his family for always supporting his career choices and to his girlfriend as well as “people who have given me a shot in the game, my current backers, and to the people I talk to daily on Skype.”

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