Michael Kane has seen off 63 other entrants (well, five of them directly) in this €350 Heads Up Championship, to secure the trophy and top prize of €6,145.
“I love it heads up,” he said, and for the past two days it has loved him back. Not that he’s a newbie to the format – he has played as high as $10,000 buy-in events one-on-one and when asked if he considered himself a specialist, he replied, “I used to think I was!”
Though he’s now predominately a cash player, both live and online, it seems the old skills die hard.