Pablo "Gordiju" Gordillo on that remarkable hat-trick

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

On such days it is simple 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 observe history being made.

But this type 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 virtually 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 ecu Poker Tour last season. But now he was demonstrating flair for the net game, prompting people to begin asking to start 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 on the whole.

"I started the session like every given Sunday, waking up at 1pm and eating early to be able to start playing the last WCOOP Sunday," said Gordillo. "I DID NOT wish to miss the Kickoff - and it was an excellent choice, because it is likely one of the tournaments I did win. After 17 hours and 100 tournaments (which turned somewhat 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 basically "I wasn't going too well". This was in lots of ways an extension of the year normally. Having left Spain to live in London for poker reasons, he admitted that it's difficult to depart that life in Leon behind, but that his plan was always to seem forward as opposed to back, that specialize in his game.

That attitude is also behind his success, at the side of an effective support network of family and friends, who're never distant within the background while 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 really perfect night at home. We changed the web provider a few days ago, so maybe this IP is truly 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 folk 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 each day there are individuals who earn similar or bigger amounts playing at PokerStars, so yes, I'm a little surprised. Too many stuff need to pop out well, that's something difficult to achieve."

It's natural to think that when moments like this the mood is certainly one of celebration. And while that can be true it's often also considered one of exhaustion, tempering any want to hit town 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 warning sign for the Spaniard, an organization nudge towards 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 really expert at is to begin 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 all of the careers I'VE started in my curriculum, hahaha."

Now, with the move to London, the end result in Vienna and now this, it would prove to him that poker was the precise choice finally. Either that or he'll quit and head back home. But then, dropping poker doesn't seem prone 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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