Roland De Wolfe: The Second Man Who Won the Poker Triple Crown

The Triple Crown is garnered by a poker pro who won the three of the most important events in poker and that would be the European Poker Tour (EPT), World Poker Tour (WPT) and the World Series of Poker (WSOP). English professional poker player Roland De Wolfe is fortunate enough to become one of the two players who won the Triple Crown. He even dresses himself with a Union Jack track-suit during the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha event where he won his first WSOP bracelet this year showing that his proud to be an Englishman.

The first player to get the Triple Crown is none other than Gavin Griffin. He got his first from the $3,000 Pot Limit Hold ‘EM event at the WSOP in 2004; his second came from winning the EPT Grand Final title in 2007 and he finished the crown with his win on the WPT Borgata Classic in 2008.

On the other hand, Roland De Wolfe got his first win when he triumph in the WPT Grand Prix De Paris in 2005; receive the second win in the EPT Dublin Title in 2006 and getting his third win by defeating 197 participants including Griffin during the $5,000 PLO8 2009 WSOP.

Once a writer in a poker magazine named Edge, De Wolfe admitted that he’s really not familiar with the poker kind that gave him his first WSOP bracelet. He said that he just mixed his comprehension from both the PLO and limit Omaha 8 and came out successful.

De Wolfe is already known in the European and American poker event scene due to his first WSOP cash in a $1,000 NLHE tournament in 2005. Surprisingly, Roland’s largest earning do not came from the Triple Crown tournaments; he got it from being third at the $25,000 WPT Championship wherein he got more than $1 million before going home.

His WSOP win became his first ever win success on the American territory even though he has a very good record on his prior WSOP events including winning 14 WSOP cashes and more than $650,000 in earnings.

EPT is generating big numbers in the recent years and time is the only factor when the two member club will increase it numbers. The EPT tournaments happen to be popular today with a lot of top US players traveling to Europe to join its events.

Maybe we’ll see an event in the future wherein the three crowning events will be augmented with the Aussie Millions or/and the Asia Pacific Poker Tour to build a Grand Slam one.