Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier was one of the top ranked StarCraft players in the world before beginning the transition to poker in the end of 2003. ElkY has been under the Team PokerStars Pro flag since 2006 and accumulated almost $11 million from playing live tournaments!
Although being a full-time poker player takes a lot of time, he's never cut the ties with strategy games. In fact, he has been [...] Read more » "ElkY" Becomes Hearthstone Sponsored Pro!
Joined: May '08
Location: Lithuania
Age: 39 (M)
Posts: 10090
...there are many similarities between poker and gaming... oh yeah like: staring at your monitor for countless hours just to find out that all of this was for nothing; increased chance to forget how to exit your apartment; improvised seating with such combos like seat-bar-toilet all in one increasing the long term chance of success and so on... definitely lots of similarities
Joined: Mar '12
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 45 (F)
Posts: 2261
I don't know anything about these types of games but I think Elky was a very good games player before online poker went big.Not seen that much of him in the last couple of years.
Joined: Nov '14
Location: Macedonia, The former Yugoslav Republic of
Age: 43 (M)
Posts: 1169
Elky becomes heart fukc something something stone player, who gives a flying fukc, he was never good of a poker player to begin with, hes nowhere to be found on the tables, and now we all know why that was the case, hope it brings u more money what ever is u r playing nowadays elky, as for poker u r just one trick donkey
From StarCraft to PokerCraft to GodKnowsWhatCraft... Oh boy, this is a carrier to be inspired by. It's fortunate that he found all these professions where he could sit all day doing nothing but click-click-click.
Joined: Feb '14
Location: Mauritius
Age: 34 (M)
Posts: 103
Elky is just a sicko and anything sicko related he's there and also I know that you can also earn big cash in gaming too so main reason why he's into it...
Posted by Willid88: Elky is just a sicko and anything sicko related he's there and also I know that you can also earn big cash in gaming too so main reason why he's into it...
The ones who earn big cash in gaming (e-sports) have literally zero life outside of gaming and burn out by the time they have become twenty-five. It's anything but ideal way of living/earning money.
Joined: Jun '13
Location: Greece
Age: 35 (M)
Posts: 9
well everyone has to survive! there are different kind of jobs and every kind of job has its own difficulties! how many of us who works through computers dont wake up every morning with a huge headache?!
Posted by TheTheMASTER: well everyone has to survive! there are different kind of jobs and every kind of job has its own difficulties! how many of us who works through computers dont wake up every morning with a huge headache?!
Oh boy, I wish I was working with a pc, staring the monitor all day. I wish.
