Back in December of 2010, an emotional Welshman captured one of the world’s most coveted titles, that of EPT Prague champion, when he topped the 563-entry field and won €640,000. Just three months later, Roberto Romanello had won a WPTT Main Event too, taking down the Bratislava title for €140,685 after he escaped the clutches of 209 opponents.

Winning poker’s fabled ‘Triple Crown’ was two-thirds of the way done, but it would take Romanello nine years to finally clinch the World Series of Poker title that earned him the golden bracelet as well as $212,613 for outlasting a field of 922 entries. We caught up with the family man who is a poker hero to many in order to find out how it felt. 

Event #39 of this year’s WSOP Online Series took place on GGPoker and saw Romanello become just the ninth player in poker history to win the Triple Crown.

It’s been a long time coming but Roberto Romanello has completed poker’s coveted triple Crown, becoming only the ninth player in history to win a WSOP bracelet, WPT Main Event and an EPT Main Event, but how does the feeling from the night before last compare to his previous victories?