LNP results

PartyPoker Late Night Poker 2008 has drawn to a close and the winner is 36-year-old Andreas Jörbeck.

The online qualifier from Stockholm overcame an otherwise all pro final table that featured serial televised tournament winner Ian Frazer, German bracelet holder and 2007 Premier League runner-up Eddy Scharf, Surinder ‘The Cobra’ Sunar, WPT and EPT champion Roland de Wolfe, 2008 Premier League winner Andy Black, Maria Demetriou and 2007 Late Night Poker Masters champion David Tighe in the grand final broadcast last night on Channel 4 in the UK.

“To win an event as prestigious as Late Night Poker against Europe’s top professionals in my first live event is quite something,” said Jörbeck.

“I’ve been playing online poker for around four years with relatively small stakes and never thought something like this would happen to me.”

Jörbeck beat Roland de Wolfe heads-up and was always the underdog throughout the final. De Wolfe looked the likely winner throughout only to run out of steam and go card dead towards the end.

“Roland played really well throughout but I started to relax and adopt a more aggressive approach when we were three handed,” said Jörbeck. Heads-up the balance of power swung a number of times before Jörbeck landed the killer blow on the top pro. Jörbeck had A10 and de Wolfe K3. The flop came down AAK and the Swede’s set gave him victory. Roland was gracious in defeat: “I really, really fancied this but in the end it just wasn’t my day.”

Next out, however, was Andy Black. Jörbeck’s set of jacks crippled the “Mad Monk’s” A2. The 2008 Premier League champion was all-in next hand with his big blind and was sent to the rail leaving de Wolfe and Jörbeck to battle it out.

A PartyPoker spokesman said: “Andreas’ achievement is huge when you consider that every other player at that final table was an aggressive pro and that he was the only online qualifier who made the final. Credit must also go to Roland de Wolfe – finishing runner-up in Late Night Poker and the Premier League is very impressive.”

Prior to the final there was a semi-final that featured the runners-up from all seven heats vying for one place in the showpiece. The line-up featured the eventual winner of the heat Maria Demetriou, ‘Flying Dutchman’ Marcel Luske, WSOP bracelet holder Praz Bansi, Polish television presenter Agnieszka Rylik, Marc ‘Mr Cool’ Goodwin, France’s Pascal Perrault and former champion Simon Trumper.

Amongst those who failed to make the final or semi-final included Dave “The Devilfish” Ulliott, man of the moment Julian Thew, WSOP Europe winner Annette Obrestad, Ram Vaswani, Padraig Parkinson, Barny Boatman, Joe Beevers, Donnacha O’Dea, Robert Williamson III, Jen Mason and Jon Kalmar.

The total prize pool for 2008 was $335,000 ($90,000 added by PartyPoker) with $125,000 going to the eventual winner. There were 49 players paying a $5000 buy-in including ten online qualifiers who won their seats in exclusive online tournaments on PartyPoker.

Final results:
1. Andreas Jörbeck (SWE) $125,000
2. Roland de Wolfe (ENG) $ 75,000
3. Andy Black (IRE) $ 50,000
4. Surinder Sunar (ENG) $ 30,000
5. David Tighe (ENG) $ 20,000
6. Eddy Scharf (GER) $ 12,500
7. Ian Frazer (ENG) $ 10,000
8. Maria Demetriou (ENG) $ 7,500
9. Simon Trumper (ENG) $ 5,000