Nice Start for Sunar

Surindar Sunar has been playing at the World Series of Poker tournaments since 1990, and has amassed 27 WSOP cashes in that time. He has yet to cash in 2008 as he competes in the main event, but earned money finishes in two events each of the past three years.

Sunar has long been a poker legend in England, but he gained a fan following around the world with his victory over Tony G. in the World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris in 2004. Sunar spoke with Card Player magazine during the first break of play Sunday in round one of the main event.


Cameron Yoos: It looked like you were off to a nice start. Is the first couple hours mostly a feeling out process?

Surindar Sunar: Yeah, more or less. I had a good start, got aces dealt pretty early, and I knew the other guy had kings, because he raised me, and I raised him back big to find out where he was at. At the point that he called me, I knew he had kings for sure. If any king comes out, my hand was in the muck.

I'm trying to get the chips early, but obviously I'm trying to feel (other players) out in the first 30 or 40 minutes.

CY: Did you play in many of the preliminary events?

SS: I did play in a few, but I didn't last too long.

CY: Did you come in with any momentum from other tournaments? How have things been going for you recently?

SS: Well in England I've had a few good results there. Did well in the European poker championship. So it's back on the right track.

CY: Do you notice a major difference in the field of a WSOP main event, with so many Internet qualifiers, as opposed to other circuit events that have mostly professionals?

SS: Well most poker events these days have a lot of online qualifiers anyways. The World Poker Tour, the (European Poker Tour), so you more or less have to adjust to them. They are very, very loose players, and they don't seem to care about pushing their stack in. Because they qualified with like $10 online, they don't seem to care.

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