Swede Andreas Jorbeck Wins Late Night Poker

36-year-old Andreas Jorbeck, an online qualifier from Stockholm, is the winner of PartyPoker Late Night Poker 2008, overcoming the odds at an otherwise all-pro final table featuring 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 on Tuesday 18th 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 Jorbeck. "I've been playing online poker for around four years with relatively small stakes and never thought something like this would happen to me."

He added, "I won't let this go to my head and say I'm a pro, I'm a competitor and am pleased to have out maneuvered some of the best in the game, I'm very happy".

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."

Final Table Payouts:

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 $5,000 buy-in including ten online qualifiers who won their seats in exclusive online tournaments on PartyPoker.

Coverage of the event was filmed by Presentable in Cardiff. Presentable also produced the coverage of the successful PartyPoker Poker Nations Cup event for Channel 4 which takes place again in April.

Late Night Poker revolutionized people's perception and awareness of poker when the tournament was first broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 in 1999. It was the first to use under the table cameras.

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