Last weekend, Warsaw’s Andrzejeczek(pictured), whose first name is Pawel, chopped the PokerStars Sunday 500 heads-up and walked off with $100,000. He joined PocketFives late last year and is just $5,000 shy of lapping $600,000 in tracked online MTT winnings. He is not a full-time player quite yet, as he works in IT as his Monday-to-Friday job, but we’ll see how long the “real world” gig lasts.

“It’s always good to win six-figures,” a rather excited Pawel told PocketFives in an exclusive interview. “Most of the $100,000 will go toward building my bankroll. I’m still playing a big part of my sessions on a stake, but fortunately,last weekend was the first time I remember playing the Sunday 500 in my own.” We’d say his timing was rock solid. Nearly 1,300 players turned out, creating a $637,000 prize pool.

His staking hadn’t been going so well as of late. In fact, he booted a few Hyper-Turbos and Sunday 500s from his staking regimen, but just happened to play last weekend’s Sunday 500 on his own. On why he ended up registering for the now legendary Sunday 500, Pawel told us, “That Sunday was really bad. Normally, I play around 10 to 15 tables at a time on an average Sunday. That Sunday, I had four after starting with 22 or 23. The only big tournament left in the PokerStars lobby was the Sunday 500, which was open for late registration.”

He chuckled, “I decided that the session couldn’t get any worse and so played the Sunday 500.” It was a life-changing decision that likely took only a few seconds to make. “It was my first online score of $30,000 or more on my own, so it feels great, almost as great as my Sunday Million score last year, which was my first big one.” His Sunday Million moment in the sun came last June and was good for $88,000 after a third place finish.

Any time you can reel in $88,000 from the Sunday Million, the richest weekly online poker tournament in all the land, you’re probably going to feel pretty confident in your game. Pawel agreed, saying, “It was a real confidence boost. Before that, Sunday Majors felt so unreal. It felt like you needed to play your whole life to make a final table in one of them. I was really bad with my bankroll and had been staked for eight months, so it was a big boost.”

Ten years ago, he started sports betting online until his attention turned to poker after three years. He began playing on Full Tilt Poker and became a member of PokerStrategy. Despite all of his success, he has yet to commit to poker on a full-time basis. He shrugged, saying, “I guess I’m the biggest MTT player in Poland (pictured) who doesn’t play professionally, but I’m working on it.”

In the meantime, he tests software by day and can typically be found on the poker felts on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. “That’s why I have so little volume,” he argued. “I only play about 3,000 MTTs per year. Some guys probably do that in a few months. I play a lot live, though. Last year, I played over 50 live events, all of those outside of Poland.”

Other top-flight scores for Pawel include a pair of final tables during the 2012 WCOOP for $85,000 total and a seventh place finish in January’s MiniFTOPS Main Event on Full Tilt Poker for another $23,000. He currently stands as the eighth ranked player in Poland and #1 in Warsaw. See who else is ranked in Poland.

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