YoH ViraL wins $500,000 Poker Tournament!

It's "the tournament of a lifetime" as YoH would say! After more than 10 years of scouring the Poker tables and achieving more than honorable performances, Johan Guilbert, better known under the pseudonym YoH ViraL, has finally managed to enter the very closed circle of winners of a Highroller Live tournament! After paying a $25,000 entry fee, the Maltese resident managed to win this magnificent tournament which featured the best players in the world! This feat allowed the young man to take home an astronomical sum of $506,250 and to approach the World Series of Poker, which begins at the end of September, with much more peace of mind.

This passionate Poker player with a whimsical personality is one of the best known French players on the circuit and is constantly expanding his community. Extremely followed on social networks, YoH ViraL is an atypical and somewhat divisive character, sometimes disparaged, but often appreciated. This love received daily by his followers boosted YoH more than ever yesterday afternoon, the latter not failing to remind it on social networks after his victory: "You may not realize it but you bring me family, I love you".

In this article, Lucky7Bonus looks back at the incredible performance of YoH ViraL on Wednesday 25 August. We'll take a look back at this exceptional tournament, in which the French player won over half a million dollars! For readers who don't know YoH, an article on his background was written a few months ago. Click HERE to access the portrait of one of the craziest poker players on the circuit!

The Poker Tournament of a Lifetime

This tournament is one of the most beautiful Live High Rollers taking place in Europe. Organised by the online gaming platform GG Poker, this Super High Roller Series Europe with a whopping buy-in of $25,000 is being held in Cyprus, more precisely at the Merit Royal Hotel Casino & Spa, a high-class establishment on this island located in the south of Turkey. And the craziest part of this story is that YoH ViraL didn't even plan to participate in this tournament!

Having gone on holiday just a few days ago, the man who has made a living from poker for over a decade now couldn't resist the call of the cards. And to say the least, his decision to cut his holiday short was one of the best choices of his life! The tournament started well for YoH, who quickly built up his chips and finished the first day of the tournament as the chipleader.

With his experience at the highest level and not worried about the pressure of the ICM, YoH ViraL played a perfect game and was able to rest assured that he would walk away with over $60,000. But it would be a mistake to think that YoH would settle for a place of honor.

A perfectly controlled final table

After a good night's rest, a precise analysis of his opponents of the day and a strategy put in place, YoH ViraL went back into battle to try to win the Grail. And the French player took advantage of his large chip lead to put pressure on the smaller stacks and force his opponents to make mistakes. After only a few hours of play, the Maltese resident quickly tripled his stack by eliminating such poker greats as Stephen Chidwick, who has more than $30 million in career earnings.

What followed was a true show of strength. Poker has become a cerebral sport, but poker is first and foremost a GAME. And even at a final table with over $500,000 to win, YoH ViraL didn't forget that. After a few dedications to TeufeurS and Loopoo, his Cash Game buddies in Malta, a few moments of provocation that he has mastered to perfection and a few well-felt bluffs, YoH almost calmly arrived at heads-up play, already assured of leaving with the modest sum of $664,500. It's a straight shot!

Turkish player Selahaddin Bedir was the last obstacle on the road to the title for YoH. The two gamblers were evenly matched in chips at the start of the heads-up and went head-to-head in the first few hands. However, after more than an hour and a half of battle, an epic move finally broke the tie. Double pair for YoH ViraL, straight draw on both ends and flush draw for Turkish. The latter pushed all his chips into the middle and the French player took the time to think about it, until he paid his opponent's stack.

The last card was liberating for Yoh, as the 10 of spades did not improve his opponent's hand. YoH ViraL can now celebrate, having just won over half a million dollars! This stratospheric win is the biggest live performance of Yoh's career to date. Overwhelmed by emotion, the French player sat back in his chair for a few moments, surely thinking about how far he had come over the years before becoming a $25,000 winner! YoH viraL proved that in poker, as in life, hard work pays off. It simply does.