{"id":269,"date":"2008-03-19T07:29:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T12:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/general\/online-qualifier-wins-partypoker-late-night-poker-2008.html"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:21:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:21:27","slug":"online-qualifier-wins-partypoker-late-night-poker-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/online-qualifier-wins-partypoker-late-night-poker-2008.html","title":{"rendered":"Online qualifier wins PartyPoker Late Night Poker 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andreas J\u00f6rbeck is the winner of PartyPoker Late Night Poker 2008. The online qualifier, 36, from Stockholm overcome an otherwise all-pro final table that featured serial televised tournament winner Ian Frazer, German bracelet holder and 2007 Premier League runner-up Eddy Scharf, Surinder \u2018The Cobra\u2019 Sunar, WPT and EPT champion Roland de Wolfe, 2008 Premier League winner Andy Black, Maria Demetriou and 2007 Late Night Poker Masters champion David Tighe in the grand final broadcast last night in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo win an event as prestigious as Late Night Poker against Europe\u2019s top professionals in my first live event is quite something,\u201d said J\u00f6rbeck. \u201cI\u2019ve been playing online poker for around four years with relatively small stakes and never thought something like this would happen to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>J\u00f6rbeck beat Roland de Wolfe heads-up and was always the underdog throughout the final. De Wolfe looked the likely winner throughout only to run out of steam and go card dead towards the end. \u201cRoland played really well throughout but I started to relax and adopt a more aggressive approach when we were three-handed,\u201d said J\u00f6rbeck.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/andreas-375-x-249.jpg\" title=\"andreas-375-x-249.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/andreas-375-x-249.jpg\" alt=\"andreas-375-x-249.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Roland de Wolfe, Thomas Kremser, and Andreas J\u00f6rbeck <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Heads-up the balance of power swung a number of times before J\u00f6rbeck landed the killer blow on the top pro. J\u00f6rbeck had A-10 and de Wolfe K-3. The flop came down A-A-K and the Swede\u2019s set gave him victory. Roland was gracious in defeat: \u201cI really, really fancied this but in the end it just wasn\u2019t my day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>First out in the final was respected British pro Maria Demetriou when her pocket queens ran into Andy Black\u2019s pocket kings. Next to go was Ian Frazer, who found that holding A-10 wasn\u2019t enough to overcome Black\u2019s A-K after the K came on the flop. Black had created a table image where players were not sure if he was on a complete bluff and after calling the clock on himself Frazer went all-in, was called and then eliminated.<\/p>\n<p>Next to go was Eddy Scharf whose Q-J looked good against J\u00f6rbeck\u2019s 10-9 only for a 9 to come on the river. It was at this point that de Wolfe started to become dominant and he took out David Tighe\u2019s A-10 with his pocket queens. Surinder Sunar went out fourth but was ahead with his A-Q against Roland\u2019s A-9 only to see the 9 come on the river. This left J\u00f6rbeck, de Wolfe and Black, with everybody expecting the two pros to prevail.<\/p>\n<p>Next out, however, was Andy Black. J\u00f6rbeck\u2019s set of jacks crippled the Mad Monk\u2019s A-2. The 2008 Premier League champion was all-in next hand with his big blind and was sent to the rail leaving de Wolfe and J\u00f6rbeck to battle it out.<\/p>\n<p>J\u00f6rbeck, a business development manager in telecoms who has been married to wife Victoria for two years, is realistic about his ambitions going forward and doesn\u2019t see himself as Sweden\u2019s next poker superstar, despite winning such a prestigious tournament. \u201cI am not a big player so have no huge plans on the horizon. Poker is just a hobby.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will use some of my prize money on a bankroll but will invest the majority in stocks and shares. My strategy throughout the tournament was to sit back, keep out of trouble and loosen up and try and relax when we were short-handed. If possible, I would get others to do the dirty work for me and get involved in lots of hands. I was so surprised to even get through my heat considering I was up against the likes of the Devilfish and Joe Beevers,\u201d he said. Next up for Andreas is a trip on the PartyPoker Million VI cruise in Europe in May, which he has qualified for online.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/lnpplay-375-x-249.jpg\" title=\"lnpplay-375-x-249.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/lnpplay-375-x-249.jpg\" alt=\"lnpplay-375-x-249.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>De Wolfe and J\u00f6rbeck play heads up<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A PartyPoker spokesman said: \u201cAndreas\u2019 achievement is huge when you consider that every other player at that final table was an aggressive pro and that he was the only online qualifier who made the final. Credit must also go to Roland de Wolfe \u2013 finishing runner-up in Late Night Poker and the Premier League is very impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the final there was a semi-final that featured the runners-up from all seven heats vying for one place in the showpiece. The line-up featured the eventual winner of the heat Maria Demetriou, \u2018Flying Dutchman\u2019 Marcel Luske, WSOP bracelet holder Praz Bansi, Polish television presenter Agnieszka Rylik, Marc \u2018Mr Cool\u2019 Goodwin, France\u2019s Pascal Perrault and former champion Simon Trumper.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst those who failed to make the final or semi-final included Dave \u201cThe Devilfish\u201d Ulliott, Julian Thew, WSOP Europe winner Annette Obrestad, Ram Vaswani, Padraig Parkinson, Barny Boatman, Joe Beevers, Donnacha O\u2019Dea, Robert Williamson III, Jen Mason and Jon Kalmar.<\/p>\n<p>Late Night Poker revolutionised people\u2019s perception of poker when the tournament was first broadcast on Channel 4 in 1999 and was the first to use under-the-table cameras. The total prize pool for 2008 was $335,000 ($90,000 added by PartyPoker) with $125,000 going to the eventual winner. There were 49 players paying a $5,000 buy-in including ten online qualifiers who won their seats in exclusive online tournaments on PartyPoker.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PARTYPOKER LATE NIGHT POKER<\/strong> (Played October, results released to coincide with television airing)<\/p>\n<p>Andreas J\u00f6rbeck (SWE)     $125,000<br \/>\nRoland de Wolfe (ENG)     $75,000<br \/>\nAndy Black (IRE)          $50,000<br \/>\nSurinder Sunar (ENG)      $30,000<br \/>\nDavid Tighe (ENG)         $20,000<br \/>\nEddy Scharf (GER)         $12,500<br \/>\nIan Frazer (ENG)          $10,000<br \/>\nMaria Demetriou (ENG)     $7,500<br \/>\nSimon Trumper (ENG)       $5,000<\/p>\n<p>Simon Trumper won $5,000 for finishing runner-up in the semi-final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andreas J\u00f6rbeck is the winner of PartyPoker Late Night Poker 2008. The online qualifier, 36, from Stockholm overcome an otherwise all-pro final table that featured serial televised tournament winner Ian Frazer, German bracelet holder and 2007 Premier League runner-up Eddy Scharf, Surinder \u2018The Cobra\u2019 Sunar, WPT and EPT champion Roland de Wolfe, 2008 Premier League<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/online-qualifier-wins-partypoker-late-night-poker-2008.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[110,169,211],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77548,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions\/77548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}