{"id":92808,"date":"2020-09-11T09:53:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T09:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog?p=92808"},"modified":"2021-01-20T06:39:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T06:39:23","slug":"willyam-eduardo-silva-goes-from-0-55-to-a-10300-main-event-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/willyam-eduardo-silva-goes-from-0-55-to-a-10300-main-event-shot.html","title":{"rendered":"Willyam Eduardo Silva Goes From $0.55 to a $10,300 Main Event Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been plenty of rags to riches stories during the ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/wpt-world-online-championship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>WPT World Online Championships<\/strong><\/a> thanks to our satellites and <strong>WPT ticket giveaways<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/daniel-smyth-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Daniel Smyth<\/strong><\/a> turned a $33 satellite into $428,391 by taking down the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/daniel-smyth-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>$3,200 WPT Knockout Championship<\/strong><\/a>. Earlier this week, four of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/renan-bruschi-wins-mini-main-event-and-is-a-wptwoc-event-winner.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Mini Main Event<\/strong><\/a> finalists received their $1,050 buy-in for free via WPT Daily specials and won a combined $975,899 with another banking $472,866 from a $109 satellite.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s now the possibility that those incredible stories will be blown out of the water because Brazil\u2019s <strong>Willyam Eduardo Silva<\/strong> has turned a $0.55 satellite into a $10,300 WPT Main Event seat and he\u2019ll be playing for a share of a guaranteed $10 million on September 13.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0WrQuf03Emw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Willyam, 37, is better known to his friends as Esmeril. By day he works in the automotive industry as a demand analyst but by night he\u2019s a keen poker player who\u2019s been grinding for the best part of 12-years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always had a love with playing cards, gambling, and poker. In 2008, I started watching poker on television and it was love at first sight. I met a great friend, Cunhado, and he invited me to a home so started playing with that crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Willyam Returns to the Online Poker World<\/h2>\n<p>The Brazilian began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/\">playing poker online<\/a>, mostly sit &amp; go tournaments, and he even managed to take down some micro-stakes multi-table tournaments, but Willyam\u2019s life starting becoming busier and poker took a back seat. He made his return earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got back playing more this year and set myself a goal to join a poker stable and improve my game. That\u2019s when I went back to playing $0.25 and $0.50 sit &amp; go games to add more volume to my game.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Free Shot at WPT Glory Didn\u2019t Go To plan<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Willyam won a free $33 ticket<\/strong> from the Brazilian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/partypokertv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">partypoker Twitch channel<\/a>. His free shot at the big time didn\u2019t go to plan so Willyam turned his attention to the $0.55 tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of them was a satellite paying out 20 tickets worth $11 each, which I won. The $11 satellite paid 20x $109 tickets and I won that too. As soon as I won the $109 ticket I sent a message to <strong>Marcos Sketc<\/strong>h (partypoker\u2019s Brazilian manager) on Instagram and asked if it was possible to change the ticket to a $109 WPT ticker since the $10,300 ladder was still too far away and hard to get to. I wanted to play maybe a $109 PKO, win some bounties and get some profit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, or should that be fortunately for Willyam, the swapping of tickets wasn\u2019t possible so he rolled up his sleeves and jumped into a $109 satellite. He finished 10\/67 and won a $1,050 ticket, the amazing run continued.<\/p>\n<h2>A Star-Studded Affair<\/h2>\n<p>The $1,050 final was a star-studded affair and Willyam recognised most of the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to look at the field and found <strong>Yuri Dziviekevski<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/brazils-pablo-brito-silva-wins-2020-irish-open-main-event.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Pablo Brito Silva<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/p\/team-partypoker\/joao-simao\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Joao Simao<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>Pavel Plesuv<\/strong> and I had to stop looking; I\u2019d never seen so many superstars together! But I was playing like it was a $0.55 tournament and remember thinking to myself that I had a chance when the last of the superstars (Brito Silva) busted out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Willyam was clinging on for dear life with a micro stack at one stage, but he kept his cool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember I was left with two big blinds but I was so relaxed that I was even sending funny chat messages like \u2018as long as there\u2019s bamboo there will be arrow!\u2019 The chat line worked because I doubled up, managed to increase my stack and ended up winning a $10,300 ticket!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019ll be attempting to put that $10,300 ticket to good use on September 13 when Day 1B of the <strong>$10 million guaranteed Main Event<\/strong> shuffles up and deals. Willyam is preparing for the biggest tournament of his life by watching and reading everything he can about poker. He\u2019s excited to play and plans to try enjoy the experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to play my best without putting too much pressure on myself about the results. I would mean a lot to win, a win like that changes anyone\u2019s life, but one thing I know is that I would definitely continue playing poker.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Time Is Precious<\/h2>\n<p>Our satellite star was quite philosophical about grinding satellites, saying to remember the time you invest in poker is precious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRemember you are spending something extremely precious to play poker, which is your time. Don\u2019t waste it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before Willyam left us and got back to preparing for the WPTWOC Main Event, he told us he\u2019d realised his goal of joining a poker stable and is now a member of Akkari Team. He also gave a few thanks to those who have stood by him over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would first like to thank God, and my family and friends who have always supported me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll be looking out for Willyam in this weekend\u2019s Main Event Day 1B. You could be playing alongside him if you hit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/wpt-world-online-championship\/satellites\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WPT satellites<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/wpt-world-online-championship\/spins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WPTWOC SPINS<\/a>, or enter our WPT Daily Specials. Willyam succeeded, why can\u2019t you?<\/p>\n<h3>Ready to join the party?<\/h3>\n<p>If you\u2019re ready to jump into the action, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/download\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>click here to download partypoker and get started<\/strong>!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you already have an account with us, click here to <a href=\"https:\/\/promo.partypoker.com\/en\/promo\/launch\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>open partypoker and hit the tables!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been plenty of rags to riches stories during the ongoing WPT World Online Championships thanks to our satellites and WPT ticket giveaways. Daniel Smyth turned a $33 satellite into $428,391 by taking down the $3,200 WPT Knockout Championship. Earlier this week, four of the Mini Main Event finalists received their $1,050 buy-in for<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/willyam-eduardo-silva-goes-from-0-55-to-a-10300-main-event-shot.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":92809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1308,1309,300],"tags":[1058,187,200,21633,330,74,15576],"yst_prominent_words":[21632,4772,21627,9326,21626,21630,2371,3599,4619,2582,21629,4316,21628,21631,3692,21625,4283,3003,21601,21624],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92808"}],"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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104048,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92808\/revisions\/104048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92808"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=92808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}