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Imre Leibold, a professional player from Estonia, has been playing poker for around six years. He plays poker both online and live. “I like all [poker] games,” explains Imre, “I’ve recently become fascinated with Hi/Lo games, Stud/8 and Omaha/8.”

The Estonian from Tallinn competes in more tournaments than ring games and has had some impressive poker success. Imre has four WSOP cashes and made the final table in the $1000 S.H.O.E event at the 2007 World Series, which he ranks as his biggest poker victory.

In April Imre took part in the bankroll challenge promotion on the Estonian site. He started with €50 and made it over €1,000 playing turbo-STT’s at Unibet Poker and writing on the blog about it. Through this he won a seat to Unibet Open Madrid tournament.

Imre comments on previous Unibet Open:

- Unibet Open Madrid was a very well organized tournament. Everything worked smoothly and although I was very skeptical about the structure at first - I really thought the tournament could not been finished in 2 days - Unibet staff proved I was wrong.

- The field didn’t look too strong and there definitely was a good value for tournament experts. Many people didn’t look too comfortable in deep-stack situation and I witnessed way too many shallow all-in confrontations at the very early stages. I would probably would have witnessed even more, but I got eliminated soon after dinner break, I don’t even remember what happened, I guess somebody sucked out on me… or I did something stupid myself, lol.

- Still, it wasn’t really the end for me, because my wife Kairit made the final table and I had the time of my life cheering for her. It was such pure fun, that the next time we will play a big event together I have to concentrate twice as hard not to get carried away by the idea to just drop out, take a beer and watch her pushing the guys around.

- We had a great time in Madrid and will definitely have a great time in Milan too.