"You Will Get Rolled Over By Some Kamikaze Bluff From a French Guy"
Earlier this month, the Winamax Grand Tournamentplayed out on the EU-facing site. There were over 1,000 entrants and, after the final cards were dealt, Sweden’s Eiffel– like the tower – came away with a $30,000 score and took second place. His hit came just a few weeks after a win in the site’s High Roller. “It’s all about binking Sundays,” he boasted.
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Eiffel is up to $3.7 million in tracked online poker scores and is the #11 player in all of Sweden, a country that has wreaked havoc in the PocketFives Rankings as of late. If you’re not familiar with the Winamax Grand Tournament and High Roller, EU players are welcome, so check them out.
Eiffel said, “I like the tournaments on Winamax. You need a lot of focus on the French sites because there are so many random factors and you have to take more high-variance lines. You can’t sit there and nit it up or you will get rolled over by some kamikaze bluff from a French guy.”
Eiffel said the value in tournaments like the Winamax Grand Tournament is higher than what you’ll see on sites like PokerStars. He added, “It is one of my favorite tournaments and I have been fortunate to run good in it before, so I always have a good eye for it.” He won the Winamax High Roller in April for $19,000 and plays on the poker site as Valpolicella.
Speaking of cashes, his largest online one came in mid-2011 in a $1,575 No Limit Hold’em Turbo 2X Chance SCOOP event on PokerStars and was good for $137,000. “That was my first big score and my biggest so far,” he commented, “but it was from a Turbo, so I can’t really say I feel it was well deserved. That gave me room to try live tournaments and give those a shot. I was new to the tournament scene when I binked that one.” Prior to that, he was a cash game player.
The Sweden pokercommunity is #1 in PocketFives’ Country Poker Rankings and has had a stranglehold on that position since February. “My friends understand how poker works and what it’s like to play because a lot of my friends started at the same time I did and have the same mentality as I do,” Eiffel said of his Swedish crew.
However, his family has been harder to win over: “My family and elders have found it harder to understand what I am doing. I always have to state that I am a good player, not some degenerate gambler. I also say it’s what I have been doing for a living since my studies, but I don’t think we will ever get as much respect as other jobs because people have narrow minds about poker as a career.”
He has 105 tracked wins and 108 runner-up finishes out of 3,642 cashes total (6%), so he has certainly had plenty of success. Away from the game, he exercises and tries to eat upscale dinners out. He added, “I try to travel a lot and break the daily poker routine so I have the energy to sit and grind. I also like to do interior design and go to the flea market to find things to create a cozy feeling at home. I appreciate having an old feel at home and creating a unique environment that others do not have.”
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