Online Casino Player Wins $500,000 First Prize
The online poker room Titan Poker, announced that a player, Olivier Lombard, has just won first prize of $500,000. The 23 year-old almost missed the chance to play at the final $2,500,000 GP tournament table on Sunday. His play ended with his hard-won victory in the early hours of Monday morning after fourteen consecutive hours of tournament play.
The winner won his seat to the final just four days before in a qualifying tournament he ‘nearly forgot’ to play in. After redeeming a free token to the last $2,500,000 Satellite, the winner finished in the top five seat. He was now faced with the last minute dilemma of whether to reschedule his holiday or take part in the monumental tournament. He ended his holiday suddenly by taking his seat at the table on Sunday evening - via remote internet access from Senegal.
Olivier is a French Civil Engineer and is also known as player ‘axp15′ has already created a formidable reputation as cash table player after a year of playing at Titan Poker. Using the element of surprise to his advantage, the young player emerged from the wings triumphant over his more experienced opponents.
Olivier states that he was extremely lucky. He added, “One always needs a lot of tournament experience to win such huge events. I kept the stakes far from my mind and played as rationally as I could. I made sure to change strategy often during the game, depending on the opponents and the blinds.”
The winner Olivier stuck to his game through fourteen hours of grueling ups and downs and finished number one out of a total 1596 players who competed that day.
