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No, not that Soul.
This Soul.
(orky)Soul, SK.Soul, Soul[pG], one of the most successful Starcraft gamers and one of the most successful RTS gamers of all times.
His accomplishments include, but are not limited to, 5-5 professional Starcraft record in Korea, qualifying three times as a WCG.Russia representative(twice in WC3 and once in Age of Empires) and AMD PG Challenge victory.
Well, now he is venturing to prove himself in the newest fad in the RTS genre- the Texas Hold'em. He is, too, a poker prodigy.
One minute from now, the final table of WSOP will set off.
Ivan Demidov(that's his name) is about to kick ass, he is second in chips:
Dennis Phillips - 26,295,000
Ivan Demidov - 24,400,000
Scott Montgomery - 19,690,000
Peter Eastgate - 18,375,000
Ylon Schwartz - 12,525,000
Darus Suharto - 12,520,000
David 'Chino' Rheem - 10,230,000
Craig Marquis - 10,210,000
Kelly Kim - 2,620,000
And that means he is well on his way to get the coveted first place prize - $9,152,416.
2nd- $5,809,595
3rd- $4,517,773
4th- $3,774,974
5th- $3,096,768
6th- $2,418,562
7th- $1,772,650
8th- $1,288,217
9th- $900,670
WAR SOUL!
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Damn, guys like him make me jealous.
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
thats crazy
are all good (foreign?) sc players geniuses that are rigged at poker too or something
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On November 10 2008 03:24 alffla wrote:
thats crazy
are all good (foreign?) sc players geniuses that are rigged at poker too or something
That's what I was thinking haha
Retiring from pro SC automatically makes you awesome at poker apparently
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Even if he doesn't make it #1 - wow @ the money
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United States17042 Posts
poker and sc actually have decent amount in common, so I guess that it's not that surprising that good sc players would also be good at poker.
Just to take texas hold em as an example, you know the cards in the middle of the table, and you know your own cards.
You need to deal with probabilities and good guessing off of limited information in a fairly small timeframe, both of which are required in sc, as well as poker
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I would say the primary factor is drive.
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United States24752 Posts
Ugh I'm getting tired of people referring to the apparent links between bw and poker a disproportionate amount of times... I doubt the main reason why broodwar players retire to poker is because broodwar is similar to poker.... there are tons of things more similar to broodwar.
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actually...it seems to be trend in general for competitive rts gamers
more than a fair share seem to take up poker after they quit the scene
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Katowice25012 Posts
Its true to all gamers in general, not just RTS players. Travis is right, it all has to do with drive.
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Ivan Demidov is also the first person to make final table of the WSOP main event and the WSOP Europe main event in the same year
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Schwartz just took around 3m from Dennis Phillips and now Ivan is the chip leader
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Makes me jealous, so young and if he wins he's set for LIFE
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Demidov and Phillips in a huge pot, Demidov just went all in and Phillips folds and hands Demidov over 10m. Demidov now in a commanding chip lead.
Phillips left with slightly over 8m
Demidov now has 35m
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Isn't this the man that invented SK Terran? If so he's got crazy apm,
Soul ftw ease...
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Sweden33719 Posts
No, that was SoulKey, a korean I think.
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FA is right and whats sick is that this dude had a successful SC career, even more successful WC3 career, a short lived but also successful AoE career, and now is kicking ass in poker, and he's still trailing behind elky as far as accomplishments concerned. Just goes to show u how fucking insanely awesome elky is.
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On November 10 2008 07:00 Sfydjklm wrote:
FA is right and whats sick is that this dude had a successful SC career, even more successful WC3 career, a short lived but also successful AoE career, and now is kicking ass in poker, and he's still trailing behind elky as far as accomplishments concerned. Just goes to show u how fucking insanely awesome elky is.
plz educate me about elky. only knew about sc and poker.
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marquis goes out, Soul guaranteed 1.3m at least now
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Ylon Schwartz
36,625,000
0
Ivan Demidov
32,000,000
0
Peter Eastgate
23,575,000
0
Scott Montgomery
17,500,000
0
Darus Suharto
11,475,000
0
Dennis Phillips
9,550,000
0
David "Chino" Rheem
4,900,000
0
Kelly Kim
600,000
0
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On November 10 2008 08:06 gm.tOSS wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2008 07:00 Sfydjklm wrote:
FA is right and whats sick is that this dude had a successful SC career, even more successful WC3 career, a short lived but also successful AoE career, and now is kicking ass in poker, and he's still trailing behind elky as far as accomplishments concerned. Just goes to show u how fucking insanely awesome elky is. plz educate me about elky. only knew about sc and poker.
well his progaming stats are like 140-90 or something and at one point he was THE best WC3 player.
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Kim out at least 1.8m now.
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Korea (South)11590 Posts
On November 10 2008 08:06 gm.tOSS wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2008 07:00 Sfydjklm wrote:
FA is right and whats sick is that this dude had a successful SC career, even more successful WC3 career, a short lived but also successful AoE career, and now is kicking ass in poker, and he's still trailing behind elky as far as accomplishments concerned. Just goes to show u how fucking insanely awesome elky is. plz educate me about elky. only knew about sc and poker.
ex sc top tier players now poker pros:
Rekrul (Daniel Schrieber)
BigBalls on TL Daut on LP (Ryan Daut)
RainKhan (Hevad Khan)
Grrr... (Giyom Patry)
Elky (Bertnard Grospellier)
Day[9]
Schnibl0r
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On November 10 2008 09:13 CaucasianAsian wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2008 08:06 gm.tOSS wrote:On November 10 2008 07:00 Sfydjklm wrote:
FA is right and whats sick is that this dude had a successful SC career, even more successful WC3 career, a short lived but also successful AoE career, and now is kicking ass in poker, and he's still trailing behind elky as far as accomplishments concerned. Just goes to show u how fucking insanely awesome elky is. plz educate me about elky. only knew about sc and poker. ex sc top tier players now poker pros: Rekrul (Daniel Schrieber) BigBalls on TL Daut on LP (Ryan Daut) RainKhan (Hevad Khan) Grrr... (Giyom Patry) Elky (Bertnard Grospellier) Day[9]
Asmodey, Soul, Saft, FrozenArbiter, Raszi, Travis^_^
And prolly many more i dont know of
Oh yeah, Korn[pg] as well ^_^
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Korea (South)11590 Posts
yeah FA as well, but i was mostly thinking about top tier players, if u are going to talk about sc players just not top tier amateurs, then you'd also have to include
JonnyCosmo (Jonathan McGowan)
Pillars
F4zi
Fayth
Strato
Baal (along with his car racing)
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Ivan Demidov 38,975,000
Peter Eastgate 25,725,000
Dennis Phillips 21,400,000
Ylon Schwartz 20,675,000
Scott Montgomery 16,700,000
Darus Suharto 8,300,000
David "Chino" Rheem 4,450,000
Average Stack: 19,554,285
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On November 10 2008 09:53 CaucasianAsian wrote:
yeah FA as well, but i was mostly thinking about top tier players, if u are going to talk about sc players just not top tier amateurs, then you'd also have to include
JonnyCosmo (Jonathan McGowan)
Pillars
F4zi
Fayth
Strato
Baal (along with his car racing)
Pillars was in an OSL. :p
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On November 10 2008 09:53 CaucasianAsian wrote:
yeah FA as well, but i was mostly thinking about top tier players, if u are going to talk about sc players just not top tier amateurs, then you'd also have to include
JonnyCosmo (Jonathan McGowan)
Pillars
F4zi
Fayth
Strato
Baal (along with his car racing)
No u dihnt. Since when is Bigballs or Schniblor or Rain are top top tier?
And who the hell is F4zi?
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oh yeah Rheem got knocked out somehow while i was away, 2.4m now minimum. Pretty sick gaps^^
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HA-HA rofl i think people are gonna get banned here seeing as how Nazgul hasnt been mentioned yet! Just proves how many there are its easy to forget people. And while were at it, Twisted also
Also TwistedEcho and Ket were newbies but are now poker pros
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On November 10 2008 09:13 CaucasianAsian wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2008 08:06 gm.tOSS wrote:On November 10 2008 07:00 Sfydjklm wrote:
FA is right and whats sick is that this dude had a successful SC career, even more successful WC3 career, a short lived but also successful AoE career, and now is kicking ass in poker, and he's still trailing behind elky as far as accomplishments concerned. Just goes to show u how fucking insanely awesome elky is. plz educate me about elky. only knew about sc and poker. ex sc top tier players now poker pros: Rekrul (Daniel Schrieber) BigBalls on TL Daut on LP (Ryan Daut) RainKhan (Hevad Khan) Grrr... (Giyom Patry) Elky (Bertnard Grospellier) Day[9] Schnibl0r
Looked up Daniel Schrieber and got:
"They're both games of missing information," he told PokerListings.com. "You have to figure out what your opponent is doing and use it against them. If you're good at StarCraft, you're going to be good at poker. That's just a fact."
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On November 10 2008 08:23 Sfydjklm wrote:
marquis goes out, Soul guaranteed 1.3m at least now
lol...
"guaranteed"
1.3 million is so much! ~_~.
I envy great poker players 
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Down to 5 handed, Demidov's slipped to 3rd
Peter Eastgate 37,525,000
Scott Montgomery 32,700,000
Ivan Demidov 26,350,000
Dennis Phillips 20,275,000
Ylon Schwartz 19,375,000
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Korea (South)11590 Posts
On November 10 2008 10:43 Sfydjklm wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2008 09:53 CaucasianAsian wrote:
yeah FA as well, but i was mostly thinking about top tier players, if u are going to talk about sc players just not top tier amateurs, then you'd also have to include
JonnyCosmo (Jonathan McGowan)
Pillars
F4zi
Fayth
Strato
Baal (along with his car racing)
No u dihnt. Since when is Bigballs or Schniblor or Rain are top top tier? And who the hell is F4zi?
Schnibl0r GER-A team, BigBalls WCG 2003(04) USA Finals
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On November 10 2008 14:03 CaucasianAsian wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2008 10:43 Sfydjklm wrote:On November 10 2008 09:53 CaucasianAsian wrote:
yeah FA as well, but i was mostly thinking about top tier players, if u are going to talk about sc players just not top tier amateurs, then you'd also have to include
JonnyCosmo (Jonathan McGowan)
Pillars
F4zi
Fayth
Strato
Baal (along with his car racing)
No u dihnt. Since when is Bigballs or Schniblor or Rain are top top tier? And who the hell is F4zi? Schnibl0r GER-A team, BigBalls WCG 2003(04) USA Finals
hardly a claim for top tiereness, no disrespect!
either way, Soul in top 5 now, 3.1m minimum, man i bet he's feeling rather happy^^
And btw dont forget DreaMe[pG] he was a definetely a quality player^^
kekeke
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ABSOLUTELY MONSTER HAND
SOUL DOUBLES UP TO 51 MILLION
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Soul just doubles up KK v A9s
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Wow.
edit: Down to 4 left.
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
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On November 10 2008 14:48 Rekrul wrote:
goooooooooooooooo soul
MUAHAHA you walked right into my trap sir. Now i can avenge all those poor souls that have fallen victim to the scythe! MUAHAHAHAHEHEHO!!!
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On November 10 2008 15:32 Sfydjklm wrote:MUAHAHA you walked right into my trap sir. Now i can avenge all those poor souls that have fallen victim to the scythe! MUAHAHAHAHEHEHO!!!
Checkmate?
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Ivan is in top 3 now, 2nd in chips(67-50-20 million) 4.5m minimum for him. Ship Ship.
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Top 2, will be played tommorow.
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They're playing in like 5 hours right? gogo soul.
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15 minutes! WE LOVE YOU SOUL.
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I remember Soul from a long time ago when he played in a Game-Q tournament. He beat people like Slayer and Grrr which was very impressive at the time. Of course, Boxer and Byun both raped the shit out of him, but that's nothing to be ashamed of.
I fucking cannot stand poker though. But good luck to him anyways.
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Soul takes the chip lead.
edit: Pretty much even now.
edit: Back where it started.
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Soul is about 30 million chips behind but he's playing really well! He's pressuring Peter a LOT.
*edit* oh my. Wrong time to bluff, Soul. He's down to 19 million chips.
*edit* + Show Spoiler +Demidov lost  You're still our hero.
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