It's been an exciting week for San Francisco-based gamer Andreas Kniep. In one day, he went from being in a burning car to landing a new job at his dream company. To top it off, a week later he found himself winning a WSOPC ring in North Carolina. A week out of the ordinary.
Last Friday, Andreas was driving home from a friend's wedding with his partner, who, to top it off, is six months pregnant. She was driving when they suddenly started noticing fuel issues and hearing very strange sounds. They eventually pulled over to the side of the highway and when they tried to lift the hood, they couldn't.
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It was too hot from the flames coming out of the engine. It was then that Andreas understood why the other drivers were frantically yelling at them to get out of the car. People with fire extinguishers quickly showed up to help them control the situation. That same day, Andreas got the news that he had landed a new job at Google. One of his main goals.
From despair over the burning car, he moved on to joy at the excellent news. And not only that: thanks to this work, Andreas had just become an American citizen.
Everything seemed to be straightening out after the almost traumatic episode. And there was still something else to come…
Kniep had the whole weekend to recover from the episodes he had experienced and on Monday he went to the Graton Resort and Casino to compete in Event #5 US$600 NLH 6-Max of the WSOPC. There, he prevailed against a field of 120 players to win his first WSOPC ring and a prize of US$15,907.
It will not be bad for him to fix the car. With this result, Andrea achieves his first title of this nature and accumulates a total of US$1,374,697 in accumulated live earnings.
