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Bertrand " ElkY" Grospellier won his first World Series of Poker Bracelet in Event #21: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship after defeating Steve Landfish in a prolonged heads up battle. ElkY was running hot throughout the event, but he ran into major trouble during heads up play. After falling to approximately 200,000 chips vs. his opponent's 3,500,000 [Edit: ElkY says it was more like 150,000 chips during his interview with PokerNews, which you can find in the link below; he also tries to convince the female interviewer to go out partying with him tomorrow at the end lol], he knew that he would have a daunting task at hand. However, ElkY kept his composure, eventually fought back over the course of several hours, and took it down.
He cashed for an impressive $331,639, which pales in comparison to his famous WPT payday, but this is his first victory at the WSOP and taking down a 10k championship in any form of poker is a great accolade for any player. Also, 7 card stud is not his most proficient game, making the achievement even more noteworthy. Edit: His first stud tournament ever, loldonkaments
PokerNews:
The win gives ElkY the triple crown to go along with his ‘08 WPT Championship win for $1,411,015 and his PCA win for $2,000,000 earlier that year. He is this WSOP’s second triple crown winner after Jake Cody and the fourth winner overall.
Check out http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-21-seven-card-stud-championship/ for a live report of the event too if you want to find out exactly how it all happened, along with many other pictures from the event.
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That guy is good at whatever he does. So talented. Congrats to Elky!
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elky still tearing it up !
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wtf 200k vs 3.5m sick luckbox! grats
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wow congrats. its so sick to see a former bw pro with a bracelet!
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ElkY! Always good to hear news about former BW players 
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Congrats Elky! It's nice to still hear about old school bw foreigner legends in the poker world :D
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Great work ElkY, congratulations!
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Congrats!!! Good to see another former BW pro winning a bracelet!
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wtf thats a comeback from 5.4% of the total chip stack, thats amazing. grats to ElkY and his payday
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WOW grats
that's a massive comeback
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Wait holy crap Elky is the Bertrand Grospellier 0_0. I dunno how I never made the connection before.
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What's sick is that he's the 25th most successful tournament poker player ever in terms of prize money now, ahead of many famous names anyone who watches TV poker would know.
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Awesome, let's hope in invests some of that money in eSports 
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his opponent actually folded on a 1bb bet on 4th street when elky was down to 200k, well played sir..
As ElkY likes to say "this is siiiick" glad to see him finally grab his first WSOP Bracelet, now u conquered poker comme back and conquer SC2 :D
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elky so sick LOL
oh my god
someone has to ask him if he still plays starcraft
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He played one BO3 for the EGG-One tournament in France a few months ago, and he made an interview with them where he said that he did some ladder, but that poker was his main activity and that even though he likes gaming, he will not leave poker now.
However he lost that BO3, and has never appeared in any competition since.
But seeing how successful he is in poker, I won't blame him for his choice!
Edit : the link to the interview that I am talking about (French)
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my god, thats an impressive comeback, wonder what the other guys is feeling like losing that much of an advantage!! Well Done ElkY!!!!
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United Kingdom16710 Posts
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Considering he's one of the most consistent tournament players, I must say it's about time that he got one! Way to go Bertrand!
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On June 15 2011 19:41 cyclone25 wrote:Awesome, let's hope in invests some of that money in eSports
Yes, please! I know that Jason Somerville, another poker pro and surprisingly, Event #20 winner($493,091), is already investing in the new Six Pool Gaming organization. The more, the merrier!
I was watching the live stream during the final table and I still cannot believe that ElkY made that comeback. He was soooo short-stacked and he never even had to go all-in until he gathered a lot more chips. I don't play stud, but I have a hard time believing that his opponent couldn't put more pressure on during that time. As his name says, I think he was kind of a "fish" lol
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On June 15 2011 20:36 Looms wrote:Show nested quote +On June 15 2011 19:41 cyclone25 wrote:Awesome, let's hope in invests some of that money in eSports Yes, please! I know that Jason Somerville, another poker pro, is already investing in the new Six Pool Gaming organization. The more, the merrier! I was watching the live stream during the final table and I still cannot believe that ElkY made that comeback. He was soooo short-stacked and he never even had to go all-in until he gathered a lot more chips. I don't play stud, but I have a hard time believing that his opponent couldn't put more pressure on during that time. As his name says, I think he was kind of a "fish" lol
Just a question: where did you watch it? Veetle??
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Thats what I'm talking bout son!
congratz!
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
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Good for him He deserves it. That epic comeback shows even more how much he deserves it. Though the RNG gods were prolly in his favor.
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And now to master the world of MMA.
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Northern Ireland2557 Posts
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awesome!!! good to see old community guys doing well
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On June 15 2011 19:50 LeLfe wrote:
his opponent actually folded on a 1bb bet on 4th street when elky was down to 200k, well played sir..
As ElkY likes to say "this is siiiick" glad to see him finally grab his first WSOP Bracelet, now u conquered poker comme back and conquer SC2 :D
yeah i watched the HU his opponent seemed like a fish lol
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Not sure if anyone has pointed this out yet, but the CEO of Six Pool Gaming also won a Bracelet for no-limit hold'em.
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Nice Elky! Maybe once he's rich enough, and money isn't an issue any longer, he'll return to pro gaming?
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On June 16 2011 02:23 IPA wrote:Nice Elky! Maybe once he's rich enough, and money isn't an issue any longer, he'll return to pro gaming?
I dunno, but define rich? over 6mill from tournaments isn't rich enough? lol
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On June 15 2011 20:47 Rekrul wrote:
Boom
goes the dynamite
Well done!
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ok elky, grats! now u have damned bracelet! now get your ass back to starcraft! :D:D:D
no seriously, go for 11 more, because helmuth is an arrogant bitch! :D
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Lalalaland34503 Posts
Congrats! I wonder if he's well known for being an ex-SCBW-progamer in the poker community.
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Congrats dude, that's one hell of a win!
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Awesome. Elky's such a beast.
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SC players are the best
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Yay! It was about time Elky, great performance.
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Sick run! gratz on the win elky!
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soon coming, Elky's new book:
"How to be the best in everything"
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On June 16 2011 03:06 ggrrg wrote:
soon coming, Elky's new book:
"How to be the best in everything"
i would totally read this
gratz to elky, not bad for his first stud tournament lol
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
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Fuck yeah! Well done, ElkY.
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Oh awesome. I used to play online poker with him before. He's a great guy. I miss seeing him play from BW.
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ElkY is so siiick, congrats on the bracelet!
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United States4796 Posts
Fuck yeah ElkY. :D Great to see ElkY getting ahead.
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Congratulations to ElkY
Nice to see him constantly winning more things in poker.
I think a former professional Counter Strike player just won 100k in the swedish poker championship or something ... gamers doing big things in poker.
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Elky such a beast, I watched a good portion of this, congrats to him!
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grats elky its about time you're the man
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So TOTStrafe got 2nd, the CEO of sixpoolgaming won the NLHE and Elky won this lol, good day eh
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Elky runs hotter than the sun.
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Seems like bw creates a lot of good poker players... Craig Marquis was a guy i grew up playing bw with and one day i learned he won $970,000 making it to the final table of 2010 WSOP. He sucked at bw though.
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On June 16 2011 04:54 Zlasher wrote:
So TOTStrafe got 2nd, the CEO of sixpoolgaming won the NLHE and Elky won this lol, good day eh
It was a good day, indeed!
Jason Somerville, CEO of Six Pool Gaming & FriendsEvent #20: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em ($493,091) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/2ZunJ.png)
ElkY & FriendsEvent #21: $10,000 7 Card Stud Championship ($331,639) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/hePee.png)
Robbie "Strafe" Verspui(Left) and Andrew Badecker during heads up play2nd in Event #13: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em ($228,334) ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/RY0So.png)
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Grats ElkY! What a major baller.
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Awesome shit, gratz to him :D
Amazing comeback too, this guy's got skills.
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Off the chain sick. Well done man.
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When u master starcraft, u master everything
gg elky
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United States22883 Posts
Absolutely awesome. Go Elky. :D:D
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Niiiiiiiice. Congrats to him!
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I played him 1-1 some weeks ago on the ladder! He is definetly not bad at SC2 though far from as good as he is in poker
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incredibly sick comeback.. elky hwaiting ^^
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wow! gratz, go for the whole thing!
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Grats Elky! Now come back to SC 
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elky ft:ed another wsop, this time it was 10 k 6 handed NLHE for about 450 k $ 3rd, too bad he didn't win another bracelet but very sick results!!! Elky is such a beast I wonder if he would be that good if he didn't play sc at such a high level
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United States313 Posts
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It must suck so much to have that big of a chip lead in the final heads-up and then end up losing.
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Impressive comeback, congrats Elky!
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EPT![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/eyWKH.png)
