On the second weekend of February, Edgar Roberto Briga Claro Valente Oliveira, known as Zaureoson PocketFives, won the Full Tilt Sunday Major for $39,000. It was his largest cash to date and came in a tournament he’s highly familiar with. “I feel really happy because it’s one of my favorite tournaments and it’s really fulfilling to win it,” he told us.

Oliveira calls Portugal home and has managed to jump all the way to #73 worldwide in the PocketFives Rankings, one off his all-time high. Additionally, he is closing in on $1 million in tracked online poker scores, the vast majority of which has come on PokerStars.

On PokerStars’ sister site, Full Tilt, you can find Oliveira playing under the screen name EdgarRBCVO, which, of course, refers to his real name. “It’s a tough tournament, so it’s really cool to win it,” Oliveira said of the Sunday Major. “In this tournament and on Full Tilt in general, things haven’t been going great for me, but things have been going really well in general on other sites.”

He plans to sink his Full Tilt Sunday Major payday back into his poker bankroll. In order to get it in the first place, he had to beat out longtime PocketFives community member Alex AssassinatoFitzgerald (pictured) heads-up. “Playing against Alex was hard,” Oliveira admitted. “I never believed I was going to win it until I really won it. Alex is good and knows what he’s doing. I’m not against chopping, but I try not to do it and I was really confident at the time.”

Impressively, Oliveira turned in a second place finish in the PokerStars Sunday $100 Rebuy one week after his Full Tilt Sunday Major win and bagged another $37,000. Almost $80,000 later, the Sunday Majors were his personal hunting grounds last month.

Last year, Oliveira won the PokerStars Big $162 twice for $48,000 total and finished second in the site’s Bigger $55 for $29,000. He has over 2,600 in the money finishes in online MTTs to his name for an average of $315 apiece.

Oliveira is the #1 ranked PocketFiver in Portugal, where you can find him camped out in Aveiro. He started playing poker four years ago and before that he played bass, percussion, and sang. “It was my father’s project and he and I play together at weddings and dinner parties,” Oliveira told us. “I still do it whenever I can.” The father-son duo has a pretty diverse repertoire, so if you ever head to one of their events, let us know what they play.

His brother zagazaurand his good friend RuiNFhelped turn him on to poker and hone his craft. As he said, “They are the people who helped me the most to grow as a player. I want to send a special hug to rmgil and tono too.”

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