Late Night Poker Title Grabbed By Online Player

March 21 - A 36 year old poker fan, playing in his first live event, managed to knock several of the industry's top professionals in PartyPoker's Late Night Poker event on Wednesday night.

Spectators watched in delight as Andreas Jorbeck, a native of Stockholm, Sweden, went in for the defeat during the final broadcast of the tournament on Channel Four in the United Kingdom.

Jorbeck managed to beat a number of top pros who were seated at the final table, including Surinder Sunar (a top player on the European poker scene), Andy Black (the Irish pro with more than $3-million in prize money under his belt) and Roland de Wolf (UK Player of the Year in 2006).

Jorbeck, who won his Late Night Poker seat after beating other players in a PartyPoker online satellite, was over the moon with his victory. In an interview after the tournament, he said: "To win an event such as Late Night Poker against Europe's top professionals in my first live event is quite something. I've been playing online poker for around four years with relatively small stakes and never thought something like this would happen to me."

Jorbeck and de Wolfe managed to eliminate all the other players around the table and battle it out head to head in the final stages of the game. While de Wolfe looked set on winning the final event in the beginning he soon went 'card-dead' and Jorbeck grabbed the victory title, much to his delight.

Of his defeat, de Wolfe said: "I really, really fancied this but in the end it just wasn't my day".

A PartyPoker spokesman said after the event: "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."