Super Bowl Sunday was a profitable day for many members of the online poker community. Among them was Andras and217Kovacs (pictured), who came away with the win in the $200 buy-in Titan Poker $200,000 Guarantee. Kovacs of Hungary walked away with $42,000. One week prior, he had final tabled the PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up for $80,000.

Kovacs explained that he got lucky in several spots down the stretch in the Titan Poker weekly tournament, including drawing out on pocket tens with pocket sevens and overcoming A-Q with A-6. Both of those pots were for his tournament life and, had they gone any differently, we wouldn’t be here publishing this article.

Despite only having about 10 million people, about a million more than the metro area of New York City, Hungary is rich with solid online poker players. Perhaps its best known son is Peter BelabacsiTraply (pictured), a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner who sits in fifth in the country’s Sortable Rankings. Oh yeah, Traply has a ridiculous 10 online poker Triple Crowns to his name. He was the first Hungarian poker player to capture a bracelet.

On his Hungarian brethren, Kovacs contended, “There are a lot of talented online MTT players and poker is very popular these days. Compared to the size of our country, it feels like we are a big poker country.” In November, Kovacs final tabled the Full Tilt Poker Sunday Brawl for $75,000.

Six years ago, Kovacs’ brother started playing poker profitably and he followed suit. He plays full-time now and explained that heads-up sit and gos have been his bread and butter. He usually plays MTTs “for fun” and typically just on Sundays.

Given his success in tournaments like the Titan Poker $250,000 Guarantee, Sunday Brawl, and Sunday Warm-Up, can we expect to see Kovacs broaden his horizons in MTTs going forward? “I am still only going to play online MTTs on Sundays,” he forecasted. “I don’t think there is too much value during the week. I have been playing a lot of live events before and am going to continue with EPTs and the WSOP. Hopefully, I can take down one of them!”

His largest live cash to date is an $87,000 score for final tabling the Italian Poker Tour‘s Venice stop in January 2010. In July, he returned to the canal-laden city and made the event’s final table one more time for $45,000. According to the Hendon Mob, he’s #15 on the all-time money list for Hungary.

At the time of writing, probirs, who hails from Budapest, leads the Hungarian Sortable Rankings. He’s at #82 worldwide and holds a Triple Crown as well. On the first Sunday of January, probirs final tabled the Full Tilt Poker $750,000 Guarantee for $119,000, his largest cash tracked by PocketFives.com.

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