If you randomly stumbled across a quarter of a million dollars – say you found it on the side of a road in a garbage bag – you might be inclined to tell your boss off and move to the Caribbean. Okay, maybe you’d need a bit more than $250,000 for that, but for Israel’s GadMO, not having to worry about paying bills in the near future is a reality after a $251,000 windfall in this year’s PokerStars Turbo Championship of Online Poker Main Event.

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The TCOOP’s feature tournament brought out over 5,000 players and ended in a seven-way chop. For GadMO, the Main Event constitutes nearly all of his tracked scores in his PocketFives profile and he’s suddenly somewhat of a known commodity. Even T.J. 1bigaceholeUlmer, who finished third and banked $232,000, applauded GadMO’s play in a recent interview with us.

“I’m feeling great now,” GadMO told us. “I don’t have to worry about money in the near future. During the tournament, I didn’t think about the money. This is a strategy I developed as a player, so I just played my regular game and it worked out this time. I realized how big the score was after a few hours when people started congratulating me.”

GadMO can be found at #3 in the PocketFives Sliding PLB for Israel and in the Rankings release on January 29, he shot up over 200 spots worldwide from #441 to #233. He is now faced with a decision many of us would envy: how to spend $251,000. He told us, “I’m planning to play some live poker tours this year and want to make my life better by buying a car.”

Let’s go back to Ulmer (pictured) now, who reached the final table of the final TCOOP tournament along with GadMO. We asked the latter for a scouting report on the man they call 1bigacehole: “I’ve known him for a long time as a player. He is very good and very calculated. When the deal was being discussed, he asked for more money than the ICM numbers. I think it was legitimate, but with 10 to 15 big blinds, he didn’t have any advantage over the regulars and very little advantage over the random players at the table.”

What’s it like having seven players agree on something? Was it like pulling teeth or was the group amenable to the deal? GadMO admitted, “It was big money for everyone and we all understand the variance in poker, especially less than 20 big blinds deep, so you can’t really refuse when there is so much money on the table.” The total amount of money dished out in the tournament was over $3.3 million.

Friends turned GadMO onto poker five years ago. He played low-stakes games for two years before a 25NL player he knew turned him onto online poker. He learned a lot as a result, read books, watched videos, and excelled at what the game of poker offered him.

He’ll soon begin studying computer science as a new chapter of his life unfolds. He explained his options to us: “I will do both studying and poker. I love the academic world, especially when the pressure of money is high. I also love poker and am planning to become better at it.”

Speaking of poker, other major cashes to his credit include a win in the Wednesday Hundred Grand on PokerStars for $25,000 last month that occurred 11 days prior to his TCOOP Main Event final table. He has also final tabled the site’s Big $162 and Hotter $75 for $26,000 total.

We have nearly 200 registered members from Israel on PocketFives, whose total winnings have nearly hit $16 million. GadMO commented on the state of the industry in his home nation: “There is a legislative movement here and I support it fully. Hopefully they will solve a difficult situation.”

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