On Thursday, 101 players convened on WPT Pokerfor the latest PocketFives Open. With $3,000 in added cash in the prize pool along with Holdem Manager 2 licenses, PocketFives Trainingsubscriptions, and PocketFives gear, there was plenty to play for. After about three-and-a-half hours, Sweden’s demios came away with the win and banked $1,100 for his $11 buy-in. Not too shabby.

“This is one of the biggest tournaments I have won lately. Plus, in the last two months, I have not had so much luck with poker, so this feels great,” demios told PocketFives moments after his big win in an exclusive interview. He plays on WPT Poker under the screen name toffelvadd and defeated mysticpig heads-up, who hails from the United Kingdom.

One of the most memorable hands of demios’ tournament saw him knock out fellow community member Geraldo22 with quad tens to get a bounty. We asked demios to walk us through that key moment: “Geraldo22 shoved for nine big blinds from the hijack and the cutoff shoved for 13 big blinds, so I thought for a while and called with my 10-10. Geraldo22 got unlucky with his K-K and the cutoff also got a bit unlucky with his A-Q suited after he flopped a pair of aces because I hit my trips on the turn and quads on the river.”

The PocketFives Open is a time-honored tradition on our site and typically takes place once per quarter. The Swede is the 20th PocketFives Open champion we’ve crowned and WPT Poker is the 10th site we’ve held the tournament on. We asked why demios why he chose to play in the first place: “I like these community tournaments. There is extra value and prestige and bounties spice things up.”

On the final hand of the PocketFives Open, demios hit a straight on the turn and called an all-in bluff to take down a pot worth 25 big blinds and the title of champion. mysticpig banked $681 for second place and the total prize pool, including the $3,000 in cash that WPT Poker graciously added, lapped $4,000.

demios told us that he got started in poker after watching “Poker After Dark” on television. From there, he narrated, “I started playing Fixed Limit cash games and now play mostly No Limit Hold’em and Omaha tournaments.” He signed up for PocketFives last November and has nearly $2,000 in tracked MTT cashes to his credit.

Our latest PocketFives Open winner plays poker three to four hours per day. He explained, “I used to like poker a lot and play poker a lot, but I now I get a little bored of it sometimes, so I play about three or four hours per day. I think if you’re good enough to play full-time and enjoy the games, it’s one of the best jobs in the world. Also, it gives you so much more freedom than a normal job.”

Sweden is home to over 500 registered PocketFives members, some of whom chat in our new Sweden pokercommunity. “I think Sweden has a lot of great players,” demios said of his homeland. “I don’t look up to anybody in particular, but I think Isildur1 (pictured) is doing great. There are a lot of people who play poker in Sweden, so it’s all good here.”

Here were the final table results from Thursday’s PocketFives Open on WPT Poker. Thanks to everyone who played for making this recurring tournament a success every time:

1. toffelvadd – $1,122.81 (demios)
2. Hamhamham – $681.70 (mysticpig)
3. iownursoul – $421.05 (gerryf23)
4. Sentapied99 – $330.82 (Senterpied)
5. skyblue13888 – $284.71
6. vanillaicecream – $240.60 (NG3434)
7. catalinfr0 – $200.50
8. yuman – $164.41 (Morovica)
9. Geraldo22 – $112.28 (Geraldo22)
10. finalshine1 – $90.22

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