Winning a PocketFives Triple Crownon the final day of May was Billy BillyChatChattaway (pictured), who calls London home. The 33rd player in our PocketFives Poker Rankingsscored his second Triple Crown after winning the PokerStars $55 Rebuyfor $8,200, the William Hill $25,000 Guaranteed Double Stack for $5,100, and the PokerStars.fr Need for Speed Turbo XL for $3,000 in the span of a week. Chattaway lent PocketFives a few minutes of his time.

PocketFives: Thanks for joining us all the way from the United Kingdom. Your largest Triple Crown score came in the $55 Rebuy on PokerStars. Tell us how that tournament went.

Billy Chattaway: It went very smoothly. I had a good night on Stars that night: fifth in the $22 Cubed, second in a late $30 Rebuy, and this result. I remember I had 50 bigs on the bubble, was dealt A-A, and the chip leader 5bet jammed on me with J-6 of clubs. That was nice and was followed a couple hands later by J-J versus A-Q suited blind-on-blind. This meant I had four times the average stack going into the money, so essentially the hard work had been done.

Heads-up was nice and it took one hand: my A-8 offsuit versus his Ah-6c on an 8-6-2 all-heart flop. I came in second the night before in the $55 Rebuy and had it in for the win and a Triple Crown with K-10 suited versus 2-2, but it didn’t pan out.

PocketFives: You’re at #33 in the Rankings, yet your largest cash is only $27,000. Is your ranking more about putting in volume than hitting big scores?

Billy Chattaway: I wouldn’t say I’m all about volume. I like to play the biggest games. I have been close to bigger money on several occasions, but the beast just hasn’t dropped yet. As I play poker as my only source of income, I like to maximize my chances of earning a lot, and my mentality is the more I play, the more I will win and earn.

Despite $27,000 being my biggest win, I have had many results over $20,000. I just can’t break that $30,000 mark yet. I’m very confident it is just around the corner, more a matter of when than if.

PocketFives: Is it frustrating not to have turned in a $30,000 score yet?

Billy Chattaway: It is. I think as a professional at anything, you always want to be the best. You always want to push yourself. $30,000 is the boundary for me as well as getting to $1 million in cashes in my PocketFives profile.

I have sleepless nights thinking about a hand I played three-handed in the Sunday Second Chance when I came in third for $27,000. I had turned trips against another player’s runner-runner flush. I would have done things differently if I could turn back the clock. That being said, I am not that hung up over my biggest win only being $27,000. Apart from Sundays, there are very few games that allow you to win that much.

I was disappointed with my performance in the SCOOP this year, but there is always another tournament or festival around the corner. About six months back, I played a $10,000 buy-in tournament. It was $400,000 up top, life-changing money, and at one stage on the bubble, I was sitting 1/28.

I had won the Big $55 the day before, which is why I bought in. I came in 15th, just off the final table, but being that deep was a massive lesson for me. Poker is all about continuous improvement and learning from mistakes. I am trying to become a better player day by day.

PocketFives: How did you get started in poker?

Billy Chattaway: When I was 16, I had a part-time job. As soon as I got paid, a few friends and I would go to a snooker hall where we played poker. I think it was a £10 Rebuy. It started as more of a gamble than anything, but soon after starting, I won my first tournament for just shy of £1,000 and didn’t really look back.

I played online with any spare money I had to try to spin it up. Then, two-and-a-half years ago, I applied for a sponsorship with a company called Pokerisk. I started with them for $400 a day playing $10 games. I won a tournament on my trial day and since then, my roll has increased as well as the percentage of profit I keep.

PocketFives: Can you talk about some of your U.K. poker peers?

Billy Chattaway: I am a big fan of Jake neverbluff67Cody. Obviously, Chris moorman1Moorman (pictured) is a sicko and it’s good to see him doing a bit live now as well. Just yesterday, I watched his second place run in the WSOP Europe Main Event. Sam Trickett is probably the #1 U.K. player, as he’s the only one playing the $1 million buy-in WSOP event.

I play a lot online with Christopher NigDawg Brammer. I have been chasing Brammer in the Rankings for ages and never got there, so that has been frustrating, but it’s good for there to be such a high standard of players to keep me striving for more.