The final Sunday in April was monumental for David davidv1213Vamplew (pictured), who took down the PokerStars Sunday $100 Rebuyoutright for $61,000. There were over 1,000 entrants and the member of the Scotland Poker community defeated a final table that included six PocketFivers.

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Accordingly, he told us, “I’m pretty pleased with myself. It’s my second biggest online score and it always feels good to get a win.” He is up to nearly $1.3 million in tracked online MTT scores in his PocketFives profile, the largest of which came in 2011 after a victory in the Sunday 500 for $73,000 officially.

“I basically was just trying to play solid most of the time, not going nuts during the rebuy period or anything, and I finished the rebuy period with around an average stack,” Vamplew said of his run through the Sunday $100 Rebuy on the largest online poker site in the world. “I was pretty card dead for a few levels and then doubled in a flip to around 30 to 35 big blinds. After that, I went on a bit of a run, mostly in pre-flop hands, to be second in chips when the bubble burst.”

He continued, “After the bubble, I maintained the same stack for a while and was somewhere in the middle of the pack when I got A-J suited against Marvin Rettenmaier‘s 6-6. I won the flip to get a pretty nice stack with a few tables left.” A total of 117 players made the money and the top seven took away at least $10,000.

Vamplew explained that the final table bubble, or from 14 players down to nine, took “quite a while”. He explained, “I had a pretty good seat draw to the left of NeverScaredB (pictured), who was predictably playing loose, but I was able to play most of my hands in position.”

From there, he told us, “The final table started off pretty quickly. I won a decent pot with two pair to pad my stack and a few players busted pretty fast. Five-handed to three-handed play went on for a while, but none of my opponents were playing too aggressively, so I felt pretty in control most of the time and decided not to discuss a deal. Three-handed, I won an important flip with 2-2 versus A-9 and then took a pretty good chip lead into heads-up, in which I won two 3bet pots without showdown and then had A-Q versus A-6 for the win when my opponent was short.”

Vamplew can be found at #178 worldwide in the PocketFives Poker Rankings and, in late 2012, was as high as #67. He is ranked #19 in the United Kingdom and #2 in his home nation of Scotland, where he lives in Edinburgh.

If you’re not familiar with his career, Vamplew burst onto the live poker scene in September 2010, when he took down the EPT London Main Event for $1.4 million. Shortly thereafter, he made the final table of the WPT’s stop in Venice for another $201,000.

This year, a bracelet is on his mind as Vamplew packs up and heads to Las Vegas for the annual World Series of Poker later this month. He explained, “I am going out to Vegas for the whole time. I will be out there in time for the first WSOP event, but I have SCOOP coming up first, so it’s going to be busy.” Vamplew just took 90th in the EPT London Main Event for $12,000 and min-cashed in the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo last week for $10,000.

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