Team partypoker pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier recently secured his second WSOP bracelet after outlasting a field of 2,738 players in the WSOP Europe Colossus €550 buy-in event in Rozvadov for €190,375. This latest win takes his lifetime live poker tourney earnings to nearly $14 million.
The French poker pro shares his sentiments about his latest victory with partypoker.
"The World Series of Poker Europe at King's Resort is always a very special event for me. Not only is it, of course, the biggest European tournament series of the year, but also playing at King's feel like a home advantage for me.
It is the third year that I've played this festival, and the last two have been very disappointing, results-wise, which is not surprising at all in the grand scheme of things, considering the predominant part of the variance in poker tournaments.
Poker is a wonderful game, which forces us to develop a lot of important skillsets to succeed, like mastering our emotions and accepting the part randomness plays in everything, especially in the short term. Also, detaching yourself from the result of a decision is probably the hardest and most counterintuitive one.
As a matter of fact, the tournaments you bust early are usually the ones in which you make the least mistakes, simply because they are the ones where you played the least hands. It can appear so strange for everyone else, that during the Colossus event, which I ended up fortunate enough to win for my second career gold bracelet, I made more mistakes than in any other tournament of the series, even though I constantly tried to play my best.
This win obviously felt amazing, and it is a testament to the craziness of the game we all love, as it is the one I was least likely to win considering the sheer size of the field. It also shows to everyone out there who hasn't had the expected results lately that dedication and perseverance will eventually be rewarded in poker.
I will now enjoy a few days celebrating and resting before seeing you guys at the Caribbean Poker Party in The Bahamas!"
I am patiently waiting for that one but in the mean time I want to say him a very big congrats and yes it is very true what he mentioned, it is when you play very few hands and make no mistake that you get out early more frequently and also when you play more and make mistakes but get lucky and win huge pots and go deep...
