One of the most recent recipients of a $1 million cash badgehere on PocketFives is Germany’s wackworm. He has three online MTT wins this month and his largest cash all-time was worth $64,000 and came by virtue of final tabling the PokerStars.fr Sunday Million two years ago.

“I feel pretty good about it,” the German online poker player told PocketFives about his $1 million badge. “I never thought I’d get anything close to this when I first started out and I did it in a much smaller time frame. I was thinking it was about time for this. I remember looking at people’s stats who already had amassed winnings like this a few years ago and being impressed. Now, it doesn’t seem to be that big a deal anymore since lots of people have the $1 million badge and other people have bigger ones.”

He’s the 20th ranked German out of the 1,028 who have PLB scores from the European nation and said his moment of Zen came when he chopped the Nightly $70K on PokerStars for $10,000 in 2006. wackworm explained, “Besides being stunned by the sum of money, that gave me a clue of what could be possible.”

Back then, he dealt cards and his boss encouraged him to pursue poker full-time. wackworm told us, “He was the one I initially talked hands with. Then, I met more people at live stops I played at and got more involved. I have never been too much of a forum guy, so I watched videos and did stuff we all do. It was a lot of trial and error, I guess.”

Let’s get to the title of this article, which comes from a PokerStars commercial featuring PocketFiver Jason treysfull21Mercier (pictured). As wackworm put it, the 30 seconds, despite its brevity, had quite an impact: “I remember this one Stars commercial where Jason Mercier says something like, ‘There’s one thing I know about Lady Luck, she likes to hang out with the guys who practiced the hardest.’ It might be stupid to be influenced by a commercial like that, but that seemed to make a lot of sense to me.”

We’d be amiss if we didn’t talk about the Germany pokercommunity here on PocketFives, of which wackworm is a member. Our 2,131 German members have amassed $183 million in winnings all-time, including $4.3 million in the last three months. Germany is #19 worldwide in our Country Poker Rankings.

He closed by sending a few shout outs, as many of our interviewees do: “I’d like to send a shout out to Mike Michelin at PokerStrategy for being such a boss in life and pushing me into this and to bubbleboy547 for being my favorite hater. Also, thank you to my wife. Her being part of my poker life is so incredibly big. Having my back, while raising our kids, is a much bigger achievement than the $1 million badge.”

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