He crushed the competition and won a one-year contract with Team Winamax: meet the 2022 Top Shark Loïc Debregeas, at his home in Marseille.

Just over three years ago, Loïc Debregeas played his first freerolls on Winamax, shortly after being introduced to the game by a friend. Fast forward to 14th January 2022. Under the username _Winda, this maths teacher won the Top Shark Academy, after three months of fierce competition and a final which he dominated from start to finish. The kid from Marseille climbed the rungs one by one until he settled in our most expensive tournaments, helped smash the record for the number of ballots counted for a TSA vote and earned his first Winamax Series chip. All without spending a single penny of his own money at the poker table. It's a meteoric rise that has led him to become a member of one of the best teams in the world, alongside players he admires, motivated as ever to take his first steps on the world's finest live events. While waiting to see him in action in Madrid, Prague, Barcelona or Vegas, all this deserved a proper interview in the heart of the Phocaean city.

A report by Harper and Yohan Aziza

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