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Online Poker -- Interview With Mike 'SowersUNCC' Sowers

Sowers Disscusses His Amazing Year Online and Live

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Mike SowersEach week, Card Player TV brings you the Online Zone, a glimpse into the world of high-stakes online tournament players.

Tournament pro Mike Sowers has been tearing up both the live and online circuit since his first World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) win in 2007. Since then, Sowers has amassed more than $3 million in combined live and online winnings, making final tables on both the World Poker Tour and at the World Series of Poker.

Sowers has proven to be one of the most well-rounded players of 2009. He currently sits in 20th in Card Player’s Player of the Year race and 45th in the Online Player of the Year race. If those rankings were averaged out, Sowers would be considered the best overall player in 2009 thus far.

This week, Sowers ponied up the $10,000 buy-in to the WCOOP High-Roller Event, and when all was said and done, he finished runner-up for $448,500 to Swedish pro “sumpas.”

Sowers joined us to talk about his amazing 2009 success, the WCOOP, and about his horse taking down the 2009 PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona main event.

Check out his list of accomplishments below:

Date Tour/Site Tournament Finish Cash
7-Apr-07 Absolute Poker Saturday $150K Guarantee 1st $37,500
22-Apr-07 UltimateBet Sunday $200K Guarantee 1st $45,000
9-Jul-07 Full Tilt Poker $1K Monday 1st $54,080
29-Jul-07 PokerStars Daily $100 With Rebuys 1st $41,425
29-Sep-07 PokerStars WCOOP Event No. 22 1st $145,376
4-Oct-07 Aruba Poker Classic Event No. 7 1st $35,730
23-Oct-07 PokerStars Super Tuesday 3rd $32,984
30-Oct-07 PokerStars Super Tuesday 1st $79,920
25-Jan-08 Borgata Winter Open Event No. 12 1st $399,000
1-Jun-08 WSOP Event No. 1 8th $99,264
10-Aug-08 PokerStars Sunday Second Chance 1st $54,878
9-Nov-08 Full Tilt Poker $80K Guarantee (Rebuy) 1st $66,225
9-Feb-09 Full Tilt Poker FTOPS Event No. 12 2nd $221,680
26-Feb-09 WPT L.A.P.C. Main Event 3rd $654,797
11-May-09 PokerStars Daily $100 With Rebuys 1st $29,328
8-Jun-09 WSOP Event No. 15 4th $194,931
8-Aug-09 PokerStars $320 NL Hold’em 1st $34,599
6-Sep-09 PokerStars WCOOP Event No. 10 2nd $448,500