Preferred Screen Name: PearlJammer
Hometown: Las Vegas
Country of Origin: United States 
Jon "Pearljammer" Turner rocks the online poker world almost as hard as the band Pearl Jam rocks the real one. The young man from Raleigh, North Carolina, has racked up over $87,000 in Online Player of the Year winnings since January. A multi-table tournament specialist with a devastating heads-up game, he has also netted over $361,000 in live tournaments. He cashed twice in the 2007 Winter Poker Open, first for third place ($59,138) in the $2,500 buy-in no-limit hold'em event and then twelfth in the $10,000-buy-in championship event, netting $72,003.
Turner attended college but, like many other online pros, he was drawn to poker after Chris Moneymaker won the 2003 World Series of Poker main event. He started in a home game he ran at his house. Instead of the usual $20-buy-in games, he was playing $1-$2 to $2-$4 no-limit. After repeatedly dominating his home game, he moved to Las Vegas to play professionally. He currently plays in live large-buy-in events as well as a large number of games online.
If you see him at your table, good luck; you'll need it.
