WINNING THIS TOURNAMENT IS INCREDIBLE because it was such a great event. I feel like a complete rockstar and I’m ecstatic at the moment.

I DON’T THINK I ACTUALLY RAN THAT WELL in the event. At the start, I was getting some terrible hands and just couldn’t get going. However, I’m a cash-game player and was able to work my way up gradually. There wasn’t one big hand that turned my tournament, just a bunch of small pots that helped me climb the ladder rung by rung. By the end of day four I was in great shape, so for the first time I really felt as though I could win the whole thing.

AS A CASH-GAME PLAYER, I’M USED TO seeing a lot of streets, but that wasn’t really the case here.