Espen Jorstad Table Of Contents
Before he was Norway’s first World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion, Espen Uhlen Jorstad was a gamer and part-time poker player who cared more about playing video games and partying than he did chasing his dreams and aspirations.
Now a world poker champion, the 34-year-old says he wants to be a good ambassador for the game, encourage a healthy lifestyle, and show his country the positive aspects of professional poker.
PokerNews’ Jesse Fullen recently interviewed the 2022 WSOP Main Event champion one-on-one in an intimate conversation that can be heard on the PokerNews podcast .
Drawing on that interview, this two-part series will look at Jorstad’s life before and after the $10 million score that made him a household name and catapulted him to the top of Norway’s all-time money list according to The Hendon Mob . Poker “Dinosaur”
The Norwegian’s poker journey began in 2004, when he was still a teenager, in the midst of the poker boom sparked by Chris Moneymaker winning the 2003 Main Event. He remembers the Moneymaker feat and “watch(ing) all the poker religiously, like the EPT, the WPT, the WSOP, I would watch it all; High Stakes Poker was my favorite.”
“So I’m a dinosaur, I’ve been in it forever,” Jorstad said. “But I didn’t play full-time for all those years.”
Between 2006 and 2008, Jorstad “had a bout of playing semi-pro” but “wasn’t too serious” about his poker endeavors.
“I was like, playing a lot of World of Warcraft , partying a lot, just like making enough money to live the life that I wanted to live, basically,” he said. “I’m a dinosaur, I’ve been in it forever” A younger Espen Jorstad The young grinder primarily played heads-up cash games online and eventually got sick of it. “At some point, that was just like bum-hunting to make money. And I wasn’t really studying anymore.”Finding himself unfulfilled by poker, Jorstad focused on school for six years and ended up earning a master’s degree in brewing science, a branch dealing with the science and business of beer manufacturing, and worked in the […]
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