Winamax Poker tower. This Toulouse player is in the running to win a million euros
By Quentin Marais
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A new title in the charts of Toulouse ? Marlene Souleille, 44 years old, qualified for the final of the Winamax Poker Tour, on Saturday November 12, 2022, at the end of the stage which took place in the Pink City. A reward that she will try to win in Paris.
A decade of poker
Director of a leisure center in the Pink City, the forty-year-old has switched to the poker camp nine years ago. “The fact that it is a game strategic and technical made me want to play it, she testifies for Toulouse news. I first registered online on the Winamax site. Then a year later, I deleted the live game, so I registered with an association called Poker stars. It no longer exists today, but it got me started playing live. » The apprenticeship was done at great speed. « I have been a player in a Toulouse association for 5 years, Toulouse All In Poker“, comments the one who, for two years, has become the treasurer.
2017, 2020 and 2022
And over the past 60 months, Marlène Souleille has lived several key experiences. Starting with the Winamax Poker Tower (WPT) in 2017. “It was my first experience. I had won the Toulouse stage and reached the final in Paris in 2018, ”says the player.
In 2020, in the middle of the first confinement, the Toulousaine won another ticket, which will allow her to try her luck at European Poker Tour (EPT): “I will play in Prague in December 2022, it is a European tournament which will allow me to gain even more experience”.
Saturday November 12, Marlène Souleille was therefore part of of the 120 players in the running to win the WPT stage in the fourth city of France, which took place at the Stade Toulousain. With only two finalists.
“It’s the second WPT I’ve done, and it’s the second I’ve won! When there were two tables left, that is to say 18 players, I told myself that it could do it. I felt pretty good , at ease. For now, I’m successful. Why, I don’t know… I always enjoy doing Winamax events. I’ve been lucky too, that’s part of of the game. I’m delighted to go back to Paris in any case!”
The quiet force
The 44-year-old exudes quiet strength. In his way of approaching this second stage, first. ” I was much calmer than the first time. I think I’ve been avoiding since 2017. I hope to go as far as possible but I’m not fooled that it’s difficult and I’m ready to jump from the first hand…”
And in his way of behaving in game, then. ” I’m pretty calm, observer of what is done at the table. I try to analyze the type of players I have in front of me to be able, afterwards, to play the game that seems to me the most suitable, ”explains Marlène Souleille.
A goal in Paris
Like the second experience in Toulouse, the second version of his getaway to Paris, scheduled for March 2023 (from the 1st to the 5th), will be experienced with more tranquility. “It’s always a real pleasure to play in a hyper-professional context. The experience of 2017 and 2018 will serve me, completely. »
“I would like to go to the paid places. I do not yet know how many will be, but when we say that there are 1 million euros to be won, it is perhaps around thirty players who will in the money. The level is still strong, so between what we would like and reality, there is a gap… In 2018, I had reached the second day. I really want to take the same pleasure.”
By then, the Toulousaine will prepare. “I will continue to watch videos, because I train thanks to that, in particular Toulouse streamers who are professional, continue to play in my association, because that’s what made me do this springboard, and continue to play online. »
Marlène Souleille also explains that “online is good training, since you can play on several tables at the same time and make quantities”. Without attaching quality which will have to be more than ever at the rendezvous on Parisian soil.
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