2002 WSOP Champ wins Extreme Poker Challenge

April 3

Many online casinos poker players know who Robert Varkonyi is. He won the 2002 WSOP Chamionship.  Known for being a smooth operator and very calm player, he is at it again. He just won InterPoker.com’s Extreme Poker Challenge. This time, he wasn’t as calm as he usually is.

In a drama laden final event from the online casinos tourney, he has to come from behind to carry out a big win. Facing temperatures that reached -10 degrees Fahrenheit, the poker players were even given the chance of buy back chips they lost in order to get their coats and wear them.

In the first three hands of poker, online casino qualifier Daniel Stein not only took Varkonyi’s stack of chips, but he even made him have to lose his winter gear to stay in the game. Varkonyi later started to run around between poker hands to keep warm. Talk about extreme.

Finally, only Varkonyi and one other player were left in the poker game. Varkonyi only had a small shirt on, but he managed to do it and won the tournament.

In a post winning interview, Varkonyi said that winning made all the chilly moments totally worth it. In fact, he suffered quite a bit – he was a driven man for sure. He went on to say that he now feels very prepped for the 2006 World Series of Poker

With this victory, he will play at the 2006 Extreme Poker Championship, hosted in the waters off St. Kitts. This will no doubt be quite a difference in climate.

In this particular event players were perched on what seemed to be an endless shelf of frozen water – ice. It was right on the Arctic Sea. Many of the players were online casino qualifiers who did their very best to win.

One online casino qualifier - Ulrik Jensen was pumped to play in such extreme conditions and also looks forward to the prospect of St. Kitts – for time to thaw out.

At the end of the event held in Finland, InterPoker.com revealed that every poker player who qualifies for the World Series of Poker through InterPoker.com WSOP satellite tourneys would be entered into the qualifying round at the upcoming July Extreme Poker event titled Loser's Leap.  This poker event will take place in Las Vegas ten thousand feet above the area in a plane where losers will have to jump and parachute from the plane when thay are out of money! Yes!

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