The rise of young, internet-made players in the poker world is incessant. You know the story, guys (and gals) that are too young to play the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, but that have already clocked up hundreds of thousands of hands worth of experience online.

Despite not making the 21 year-old minimum to play live poker in the US, players such as Mike McDonald, Jeff Williams and of course, WSOPE winner Annette Obrestad, continue to tear it up online and in live tournaments in Europe and the Caribbean.Latest on the InsidePoker radar is a young Brit called Jon Spinks, who plays online as ‘Bas’

Jon’s beginnings in the game fit the typical story, but the 19 year-old from Exeter looks to be on a trajectory that will take him right to the top of poker.

Notable feathers already in his cap are an FTOPS win for $48,000 beating a field of 1,075; a $85,000 score for third in a WCOOP $215 6-max tourney; a third in ECOOP 7 for over $8,000; and live success with a final table at the Newcastle Virgin Poker Festival.

Spinks started playing poker in November 2006 after turning 18.