Pablo "Gordiju" Gordillo on that remarkable hat-trick

Admittedly there have been a couple of distractions at the final Sunday of WCOOP a bit of greater than per week ago. As you will have read by now "CrownUpGuy" was on his approach to winning the principle Event, and "Mr Negreanu"* the Player of the Series--two outstanding achievements that commandeered the entire headlines, and rightly so.

On such days it is easy to overlook the opposite stories, those who are equally spectacular but remain hidden away behind the massed crowds piling around one or two tables to look at history being made.

But the sort of "minor" stories was never going to stick minor for long. It was that of Pablo Gordillo, a Spanish pro now living within the United Kingdom, who pulled off a nearly unbelievable hat-trick, winning the Sunday Kick Off, the Sunday Storm after which The larger $55, to earn a combined $101,060.

Pablo "gordiju" Gordillo

It wasn't the primary time we'd heard of Gordillo, who finished fourth within the hugely popular Vienna leg of the eu Poker Tour last season. But now he was demonstrating flair for the web game, prompting people to begin asking to begin with whether this story was true, where was the proof, and the way did he do it?

Well it was true, and here's the proof.

Now to how he did it.

Gordillo talked to the blog about that glorious day, one spent winning while everyone else was looking within the other direction. I BEGAN by asking him about that day usually.

"I started the session like several given Sunday, waking up at 1pm and eating early with the intention to start playing the last WCOOP Sunday," said Gordillo. "I DID NOT need to miss the Kickoff - and it was a fair choice, because it is without doubt one of the tournaments I did win. After 17 hours and 100 tournaments (which turned a little bit lengthy), I STOPPED up winning three of them and making some deep runs, too... You can not win them all, hahaha!"

But for anyone watching that was the impression they were left with, that this guy could win anything that day. But what was he thinking?

"Actually, after each tournament I USED TO BE thinking different things," he explained. "I felt released after the primary win, as it made up for the downswing I USED TO BE in; after the second one one, the Storm, I BEGAN to consider the trouble of what had just happened, due to the 35,000 players. After which came The massive 55, the last one. I only could think in how every hand was fitting and the way well I USED TO BE running. I USED TO BE overconfident, and the last part felt quite easy."

In his own words Gordillo admitted that during terms of the WCOOP on the whole "I wasn't going too well". This was in lots of ways an extension of the year basically. Having left Spain to live in London for poker reasons, he admitted that it's difficult to go away that life in Leon behind, but that his plan was always to seem forward in place of back, that specialize in his game.

That attitude could also be behind his success, at the side of an excellent support network of family and friends, who're never far-off within the background whilst you dig deeper into stories like this. Poker may suit the person but only while they're on the table. Clear of it there may be the similar need for support.

"My friends were so happy for me as though they were winning themselves, and everybody was thinking that it was something really hard to happen," said Gordillo. "At home we celebrated every major pot won. By the way, my other flat mate also won The Hot16.50 to square a super night at home. We changed the web provider a few days ago, so maybe this IP is actually blessed."

They weren't alone to find what they were seeing unfolding before them to be incredible. Pretty soon the poker community picked up on it, and likely enough the folks at PokerStars were among them. Was Gordillo surprised by this?

Gordillo in Vienna, where he would finish fourth within the EPT Main Event

"I didn't realize that this was going to get such a lot attention from the media, because on a daily basis there are individuals who earn similar or bigger amounts playing at PokerStars, so yes, I'm slightly surprised. Too many stuff need to pop out well, that's something difficult to achieve."

It's natural to think that once moments like this the mood is one in every of celebration. And while that can be true it's often also certainly one of exhaustion, tempering any hit the city and celebrate. This certainly applied to Gordillo, who found it hard to get some much needed rest, although he found an ingenious solution.

"It was quite difficult to get to sleep, so I placed on Big Brother show to assist me."

Tough to sleep yes, but one suspects that these wins might function a take-heed call for the Spaniard, a company nudge in direction of poker after a sequence of false starts.

"I've always liked games, played almost everything that I'LL find," said Gordillo. "HOWEVER THE real truth is that what I'm specialized at is to start out studying something new after which giving up. I'VE started three different degrees, but this I HAVEN'T enrolled in any yet. Someday I CAN put the entire careers I'VE started in my curriculum, hahaha."

Now, with the move to London, the outcome in Vienna and now this, it would prove to him that poker was the precise choice in the end. Either that or he'll quit and head back home. But then, dropping poker doesn't seem more likely to a player with talent in abundance. That's great news so far as we're concerned.

*Our apologies, this detail was incorrect when first published.

Stephen Bartley is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog.

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