You need to ask yourself, what was a person who lives to surf doing on the top of Mount Everest? Well, winning of course.

That's what Federico "majagua69" Quevedo does when he's riding a wave, and likewise when he's grinding on the day job. For Quevado, 32, is a surfer, a fair one, in addition to being a super poker player. To prove the previous let me present the photographs below. I'll let his win within the Mountain Series yesterday speak to the latter.

That Series concluded yesterday atop Mount Everest, so that you can speak, an event with a $2,100 buy in, a prize pool of nearly $2 million and a primary prize of $350,280. It capped off a string of tournaments that began within the foothills of Mount Sugarloaf and, after trouncing up the likes of Olympus, the Matterhorn and Kilimanjaro, concluded on top of the world. 

Which is ready where Quevado is correct now. Nicknamed "Majagua", the Costa Rican dedicated his win to his friend Juan Carlos Egea, a fellow Costa Rican grinder who died recently. It's in his memory that Quevado now holds the record for the largest online cash by a Costa Rican. It's something Quevado said he was proud about, but a record he intended to overcome during SCOOP next month. 

For now he'll celebrate the win back at ground level, or a minimum of sea level on Jaco beach. That's his home, but in addition to a big neighbourhood of ex-pats who grind. Few though unwind in such heroic fashion. 

Congratulations to him on a record breaking win. 

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Stephen Bartley is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog.

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