The player

Fittingly, as the WSOPE is sponsored by Betfair, Thomas Bihl (from Frankfurt) is a Betfairs ponsored pro who plays under the name Buzzer. This is the biggest win of his career – the £70,875 fi rst prize topping up his live tournament earnings to 5,032, although he makes the majority of his money playing online in STTs.

‘My main strategy for the final table was to enter a lot of pots and be aggressive in Razz, where I felt I had a big edge throughout the tournament, and to keep the pots small in Stud and Stud Hi-Lo where I lacked the experience of some of the other players.

Even before the final table I’d identified Kirk Morrison as the main threat.