Who says cash game players – especially those who focus on heads-up games – can’t steamroll tournaments? They typically swim with the sharks, and fish, during major tournaments and, as one interviewee put it, “go for the glory.”

For example, in November, the UK’s ‘buriedatsea‘ finished fourth in the PokerStars Sunday Million after a four-way deal. His reward was $113,000, the second largest amount given out.

“I’m feeling pretty awesome. I don’t play many tournaments at all anymore, so to have a run in such a big field feels satisfying,” said ‘buriedatsea’.

A big field indeed.

That week, over 5,700 entrants turned out and created a prize pool that passed $1.1 million. For chopping it, he earned his largest online poker score to date. Incredibly, despite recording just four MTT scores last year, he’s up to almost $400,000 for his career.

He doesn’t play very many tournaments and so doesn’t chop with any sort of regularity. ‘buriedatsea’ explained, “I like going for glory when I finally get so deep, but when it came down to four-handed play, we were all around 15 big blinds and there were three other good players. I play cash games for a living, so push/fold strategy isn’t my forte, and obviously I was tired as hell after playing for 12-plus hours.”

He might have been tired, but $113,000 probably eased his pain. Who knows? Maybe he went pub-hopping afterwards. ‘buriedatsea’ said he’ll use the cash to “put it towards my next property project or toward some live trips in 2016.”

Skiing is in the cards after his big score. So is “somewhere hot to relax for a bit.” The UK poker player also goes to about a half-dozen live tournament stops yearly with friends, but primarily sticks to online cash games. Whatever he chooses to spend his money on, he certainly has a workable bankroll now.

If you’ve watched one of those home renovation shows, then you have a glimpse into ‘buriedatsea’s’ future property ventures.

“I’ve not done much in property yet other than buy a couple of places and watch my dad renovate them for me,” said ‘buriedatsea’. “Hopefully it’s something I can do in the future when I’m done with poker.” Will he be the next Armando Montelongo?

‘buriedatsea’ is #6,287 in the world in the PocketFives Rankings after climbing as high as #1,759 six years ago. He is #524 in the highly competitive UK poker community and got started in the game in university.

“A friend was making money from poker in his free time. I guess that’s how 90% of online pros started in the game or something similar,” said ‘buriedatsea’.

Why was poker interesting to him? Strategy, greenbacks, and emotion, of course. “I go through stages with poker,” ‘buriedatsea’ said, “From absolutely loving everything about the game and the evolving strategy to simply playing and working at it for the money.”

You can regularly find ‘buriedatsea’ at Heads-Up No Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha cash game tables. HighStakesDB has logged over 13,000 hands for him on PokerStars since 2010, although that only includes tables of $25/$50 and above.

Speaking of 2010, ‘buriedatsea’ took fifth in a $215 No Limit Hold’em WCOOP event that year for $83,000, his second largest score to date. Last September, he drove deep in the WCOOP Main Event, cashing for $22,000.