March 11th and 18th were blockbuster Sundays for Sebastian p0cket00Sikorski (pictured), who resides in Canada and final tabled the Microgaming €100,000 Guaranteed each day. Let’s not forget that Sikorski is a former #1 player in the PocketFives Rankings and that he has over $4.3 million in tracked online tournament cashes to his credit. Maybe the finishes were really just standard for Sikorski, or maybe his game is firing on all cylinders right now. To figure it out, we went straight to the horse’s mouth for an exclusive interview.

“Every score counts,” Sikorski told PocketFives about the back-to-back final tables on the Microgaming Network, which includes sites like 32Red. “I’ve been working on the mentality of taking every tournament seriously. In the past, sometimes I sort of lost focus after I lost in the huge ones, and I realized that was hurting my profit a lot.”

Sikorski’s March 11th second place finish in the €100K was worth $22,000, while his win one week later earned him over $33,000. In the process, he beat about 1,000 total players and continued his quest to become only the seventh PocketFives member ever to register $5 million in tracked winnings.

We asked Sikorski how he has been able to focus on every tournament, no matter its buy-in, prize pool, or field composition: “It’s about going back to the mentality I had earlier in my career, becoming disciplined again, and not thinking my session is over after I lose the big buy-ins for the day.” The Microgaming €100,000 Guaranteed carries a €110 buy-in and allows rebuys as well.

Sikorski can primarily be found playing on the Microgaming Network on Ladbrokes, and we should probably mention that the group of sites is tracked for the PocketFives Rankings. “Ladbrokes is mostly known for sports betting, but they have a few really good value tournaments each day,” Sikorski’s scouting report on the poker room began. “I find that the players on there really like to gamble and splash around in a lot of pots.”

What about the €100K specifically? What about the tournament has resulted in so much success for Sikorski and allowed him to spike back-to-back final tables? He explained, “When I play my Sunday session, I like to be deep in tournaments on many different sites and want to win on every site. It was a few weeks ago when I realized that I didn’t focus enough on the Microgaming €100K, so I said to myself that I would put extra focus on it since it’s not a huge field and it has a nice first place of at least €25,000 each week.”

It was all of five months ago that Sikorski stood atop the Online Poker Rankings. Now, he’s a former #1 playersitting pretty at #23 worldwide, in part supported by the ninth best Pro Pollscore. “I’m not sure yet,” Sikorski responded when asked if he’d be making a run at #1 again anytime soon. “Maybe I’ll make a run at it after exams. It works out nicely for me because my last exam is a few days before the PokerStars SCOOP starts, so I’ll be able to focus entirely on poker without having school in the back of my mind.”

Speaking of school, Sikorski is studying Kinesiology at York University in Toronto (pictured). Despite still working towards his degree, he’s apt to give poker a crack full-time: “Usually with a Kinesiology degree, you have to go to some sort of graduate school if you want a really good job. I think I will take at least a year or two off school and see how well I can do in poker. Hopefully by then, poker will be legalized and there will be a huge poker boom. If that happens, I probably won’t go to graduate school.”

He closed by thanking PocketFives for tracking the likes of Ongame (bwin), Microgaming, and 888 Poker for the Rankings: “I think it’s really good that the Euro sites are now tracked on PocketFives. Hopefully it will increase their traffic, as I’m sure it already has. Good luck to everyone at the tables!”

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