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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24639 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-21 04:55:06
July 18 2009 03:22 GMT
#1
As you probably already know, many notable Starcraft players of yesteryear became avid poker players. An example of this is (T)ElkY who was a progamer in Korea and then became a professional poker player.

Today at a party I bumped into a guy who says he goes by the ID "Iameasy2read" on pokerstars and says he played Starcraft years ago. He told me one time Elky got knocked out by someone else in an event he was in, and that he breathed a sigh of relief because he considered Elky to be, by far, the biggest threat which I found cool. While I don't think he was anywhere as notable in the Starcraft community as say, Elky, he shows yet another example of this sc->poker trend. I wanted to ask him if he knew of all the famous Starcraft players turned poker players, but I couldn't think of many!

Can you help me make a list of which SC players got seriously into poker? Any information on this would be appreciated. By the way, if anyone knows of this poker player I met today please tell.


edit:

running list:

[GG99]Slayer
beast
BigBalls
Cutsss
Day
Elky
Fayth
Fisheye
Froz
GiYoM / Grrr
Korn[pG]
LameKing
Maynard
midian
Nazgul
orky[soul]
Pillars
proct
rainkhan
raszi
Rekrul
saft
Schnibl0r
Smuft
strafe
Tillerman
Travis
twisted
whyyoukickmydog
YellOw

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ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9103 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-18 03:25:23
July 18 2009 03:23 GMT
#2
Elky
Rekrul
GiYoM
Fayth

uh there are a ton of others, hopefully I'll add my name to the list in time but more likely I'll go broke lol.
Etherone
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States1898 Posts
July 18 2009 03:30 GMT
#3
strafe
LuMiX
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
China5757 Posts
July 18 2009 03:33 GMT
#4
rainkhan
Liquid`Zephyr
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States996 Posts
July 18 2009 03:38 GMT
#5
ive played with him some. he plays high limits on pokerstars reasonably often
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frozenclaw
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Canada409 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-18 03:46:20
July 18 2009 03:44 GMT
#6
orky[soul]
[GG99]Slayer
Nazgul
Maynard
BigBalls
Tillerman
Smuft
oshibori_probe
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States2932 Posts
July 18 2009 03:46 GMT
#7
midian? not sure on him. And Fisheye as I recall was said to have started playing poker alot and lost motivation in BW, dont know if he followed through with the transition.

For those of you that dont know Fisheye was a top german protoss way back when.
Fuck KeSPA.
motbob
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States12546 Posts
July 18 2009 03:46 GMT
#8
I ran into an alum from my tiny fraternity from my tiny college on Pokerstars. I thought that was pretty cool
ModeratorGood content always wins.
leMaj24
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States262 Posts
July 18 2009 03:48 GMT
#9
proct
Liquid`Zephyr
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States996 Posts
July 18 2009 03:54 GMT
#10
grrrr
rekrul
raszi
twisted


bunch of others too
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frozenclaw
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Canada409 Posts
July 18 2009 03:56 GMT
#11
Fisheye made an insane amount of money of poker iirc and midian is also quite successful at poker.
Ludrik
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Australia523 Posts
July 18 2009 04:02 GMT
#12
I've started playing poker recently. Never really played starcraft much though.
Only a fool would die laughing. I was a fool.
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24639 Posts
July 18 2009 04:06 GMT
#13
On July 18 2009 12:38 Liquid`Zephyr wrote:
ive played with him some. he plays high limits on pokerstars reasonably often

Oh, what is your nick on pokerstars?
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
CaucasianAsian
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
Korea (South)11575 Posts
July 18 2009 04:08 GMT
#14
Elky
Rekrul
Smuft
Maynard
Pillars
Twisted
RainKhan
Midian
GiYom
Nazgul
Cutsss
Raszi
Fisheye
Slayer
Ivan Demidov (2nd in WSOP ME last year was in some russian clan)
Travis
YellOw had played poker for a little bit afaik (only NL100 though/rakeback grinder)
Calendar@ Fish Server: `iOps]..Stark
Divinek
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Canada4045 Posts
July 18 2009 04:11 GMT
#15
yes add rainkhan to your list
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Oh goodness me, FOX tv where do you get your sight? Can't you keep track, the puck is black. That's why the ice is white.
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-18 04:24:00
July 18 2009 04:21 GMT
#16
beast

also saft. not sure if he still plays tho

and whyyoukickmydog

and Day
Rekrul
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Korea (South)17174 Posts
July 18 2009 04:32 GMT
#17
On July 18 2009 13:08 CaucasianAsian wrote:
YellOw had played poker for a little bit afaik (only NL100 though/rakeback grinder)


LOL!
why so 진지해?
Liquid`Zephyr
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States996 Posts
July 18 2009 04:35 GMT
#18
On July 18 2009 13:06 micronesia wrote:
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On July 18 2009 12:38 Liquid`Zephyr wrote:
ive played with him some. he plays high limits on pokerstars reasonably often

Oh, what is your nick on pokerstars?

pooruser
Team LiquidPoorUser
Liquid`Zephyr
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States996 Posts
July 18 2009 04:37 GMT
#19
On July 18 2009 13:32 Rekrul wrote:
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On July 18 2009 13:08 CaucasianAsian wrote:
YellOw had played poker for a little bit afaik (only NL100 though/rakeback grinder)


LOL!

looooooooool

there are a lot of korean exgamer rakeback grinders, yellow wasnt one of them though

yellow, lovedom and soo are the 3 koreans that played high
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SonuvBob
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Aiur21549 Posts
July 18 2009 06:33 GMT
#20
Random offtopic question to LP'ers: Did Elky's ridiculous kickboxing/swimming/pullups/tennis/etc prop bet ever happen?
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Mandalor
Profile Blog Joined February 2003
Germany2362 Posts
July 18 2009 07:38 GMT
#21
Korn[pG] and Schnibl0r are also highly successful poker players and former top bw players.
Pillars
Profile Joined October 2004
United States147 Posts
July 21 2009 04:45 GMT
#22
Froz
LameKing

You listed Grrrr and orky[soul] twice.

Grrrr = Giyom
orky[soul] = Ivan Demidov
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24639 Posts
July 21 2009 04:55 GMT
#23
On July 21 2009 13:45 Pillars wrote:
Froz
LameKing

You listed Grrrr and orky[soul] twice.

Grrrr = Giyom
orky[soul] = Ivan Demidov

Ah thank you. Fixed.
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
July 21 2009 21:33 GMT
#24
On July 21 2009 13:55 micronesia wrote:
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On July 21 2009 13:45 Pillars wrote:
Froz
LameKing

You listed Grrrr and orky[soul] twice.

Grrrr = Giyom
orky[soul] = Ivan Demidov

Ah thank you. Fixed.



you should probably list their IRL names after their sc sn's to relieve further confusion and for obvious purposes of this thread.
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
FakeSteve[TPR]
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Valhalla18444 Posts
July 22 2009 07:23 GMT
#25
THEBUSDRIVER WOOOOOOOO
Moderatormy tatsu loops r fuckin nice
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