Roland De Wolfe: The Second Man Who Won the Poker Triple Crown
- Filed under: Poker
- Date: Aug 19,2009
Winning the Triple Crown is the most coveted spot in poker. And as of today, only two people got all the prestigious events in their hands. One lucky guy is Roland De Wolfe who just got his last leg of the crown when he won the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha 8 bracelet at the 2009 WSOP. Winning the Triple Crown means getting to triumph in 3 events and that would be from the World Poker Tour (WPT), European Poker Tour (EPT) and the World Series of Poker (WSOP). De Wolfe even wears a Union Jack track-suit on his final table during the event, showing that his proud to be an Englishman.
The first player to get the Triple Crown is none other than Gavin Griffin. He got his first from the $3,000 Pot Limit Hold ‘EM event at the WSOP in 2004; his second came from winning the EPT Grand Final title in 2007 and he finished the crown with his win on the WPT Borgata Classic in 2008.
Roland garnered the first crown of his Triple Crown in 2005 when he won the WPT Grand Prix de Paris. The second one in 2006 when he succeeded during the EPT Dublin Title and then he won his final crown during the $5,000 PLO8 at the 2009 WSOP succeeding against 197 players including Gavin Griffin himself.
Once a writer in a poker magazine named Edge, De Wolfe admitted that he’s really not familiar with the poker kind that gave him his first WSOP bracelet. He said that he just mixed his comprehension from both the PLO and limit Omaha 8 and came out successful.
Since 2005, De Wolfe has been a permanent face in the European and American poker scene. This started when he won the $1,000 NLHE event gaining his first WSOP cash. For the record, Roland didn’t get his highest pay from the three wins; he got it from the $25,000 WPT Championship event where he finished third and he took home at least a million.
The WSOP crown was his first win in the US soil but he has a great record in his preceding WSOP events including 14 WSOP cashes and at least $650,000 in WSOP earning throughout his career.
The two member club will soon increase its number due to the large number of participants playing in the EPT each year. Lots of American poker pros have been traveling in Europe in order to bag an EPT win in their pockets.
Maybe in the near future the Aussie Millions and the Asian Pacific Poker Tour will be augmented to the EPT, WPT and WSOP to create a Grand Slam.
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