“You don’t go to the Galapagos to play poker.” There’s perhaps the understatement of the year and it came out of the mouth of TiltTheBho(pictured), who chopped the PokerStars WCOOP Sunday Warm-Up last month and earned $179,000. He officially took third place and was second in chips when the four-way deal was struck.

“It was a pretty big week,” TiltTheBho told PocketFives. “I won the Bigger $162 the Sunday before for $49,000 also. Part of it is running good at the right times, but I have also put a ton of work into my game over the last year and I’d like to think that has paid off and been a big reason for my success this year.” In May, he final tabled a SCOOP event for $33,000.

Part of his success has come courtesy of Mexico’s chancew, Jon apestyles Van Fleet, and another unnamed high-stakes MTT pro who has really helped him improve. The result: he has piled up $1.1 million in online tournament winnings.

What are his plans for the $179,000? Traveling, of course. He explained, “I want to take a few trips. I’m thinking about heading to the Galapagos Islands around December, as it’s a place I have always wanted to visit. You don’t go to the Galapagos to play poker. If poker were my life, I think that would be pretty sad, to be honest.”

Why the Galapagos, a small chain of islands due west of Ecuador famous for its abundance of wildlife? Why not some place a little less rustic? “It’s one of the most bio-diverse places in the world,” TiltTheBho argued. “It’s like the Mecca if you want to see a ton of different species and it’s supposed to be one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Also, I hear the surf is pretty decent.”

As you might be able to tell, he is a huge fan of traveling. In fact, in the last year, he has racked up frequent flyer miles heading to New Zealand, Thailand, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia. That’s more than half the continents on Earth. “I travel a ton,” he pointed out. “There have been a few other less-than-a-week trips in there as well, so I’ve spent time in some other places too.”

TiltTheBho played hockey up until a few years ago. The hobby resulted in his housing and car being provided for. However, he has since turned his full attention to perfecting his poker game and completing his degree, saying, “I’ll probably never actually give hockey up, but I stopped playing at a competitive level because I decided to go back to school to finish my degree a few years back.”

You can find him playing as CrazyB15 on PokerStars, the largest online poker site in the world where he is the proud owner of $802,000 in winnings. He is currently ranked #133 on PocketFives, two off his all-time high, and has a Sliding PLB score of 5,176 points.

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