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gotwater
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States179 Posts
July 15 2009 21:29 GMT
#21
o dang. anyone know if hes still leading up in the WSOP?
Everything counts.
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
July 15 2009 21:39 GMT
#22
On July 16 2009 06:25 Straylight wrote:
Dudes, it's not an article. It's an advertisement.

It's just a page PokerStars paid for and put up an Elky interview in. It says "Advertisement" right at the top of the page.


it's still an article
TheYango
Profile Joined September 2008
United States47024 Posts
July 15 2009 21:40 GMT
#23
Awesome. Elky FTW.
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CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
July 15 2009 21:45 GMT
#24
lol @ better pro gamer or poker player question.
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
BookTwo
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
1985 Posts
July 15 2009 21:49 GMT
#25
I watched his carribean tournament win.it was so cool, $2m just like that.
lokiM
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States3407 Posts
July 15 2009 22:05 GMT
#26
nice stuff, thanks for sharing
You can't fight the feeling.
prOxi.Beater
Profile Joined December 2008
Denmark626 Posts
July 15 2009 22:10 GMT
#27
Really great advertizing, I'll definitely try this Starcraft thing out. Thanks Popular Science!
Nobody beats the Beater
Trezeguet
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States2656 Posts
July 15 2009 22:30 GMT
#28
that's pretty neat, thanks for sharing this. Maybe Nada will be a poker king someday.
Perguvious
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States1783 Posts
July 15 2009 22:35 GMT
#29
On July 16 2009 07:30 Trezeguet23 wrote:
that's pretty neat, thanks for sharing this. Maybe Nada will be a poker king someday.


no, idra

and he'll never fold
GreEny K
Profile Joined February 2008
Germany7312 Posts
July 15 2009 22:50 GMT
#30
On July 16 2009 05:51 Jonoman92 wrote:
I have a great experiment. Take successful poker pros who are not gamers and try to teach them sc to see if they will naturally have a certain talent for sc.


That would be cool to see if they can get really good, i think they would be able to since they are good at adapting to different situations. Cool article and how the hell was he able to be so damn good at so many games, SC, Age of Empires, WC3 ?!?! wtf i cant even get really good at one of those lol (not that ive tried any except SC and slightly WC3.
Why would you ever choose failure, when success is an option.
thunk
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States6233 Posts
July 15 2009 22:54 GMT
#31
I think the reverse won't happen because 1) There's way more money, fun, and free-living in poker than Starcraft and 2) so much of Starcraft is mechanics as opposed to just straight-up decision making.
Every time Jung Myung Hoon builds a vulture, two probes die. || My post count was a palindrome and I was never posting again.
RyanS
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States620 Posts
July 15 2009 22:59 GMT
#32
Ahhh good to see Elky acknowledges his roots.
liquorice
Profile Joined August 2008
United States170 Posts
July 15 2009 23:03 GMT
#33
Neat, I saw this yesterday but was too lazy to start a thread.
fuck yeah zerglings!
SonuvBob
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Aiur21550 Posts
July 15 2009 23:03 GMT
#34
On July 16 2009 06:29 gotwater wrote:
o dang. anyone know if hes still leading up in the WSOP?

+ Show Spoiler +
Out in 122nd $40,288
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Physician *
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4146 Posts
July 15 2009 23:18 GMT
#35
elky's larger than life
http://www.gosugamers.net/starcraft/blogs/540-elky-poker-and-dazzle
still holds today
"I have beheld the births of negative-suns and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities...."
Elric
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom1327 Posts
July 15 2009 23:40 GMT
#36
Nice article. The only thing that irks me is the question:

Q: 'Do you credit your history as a gamer to your success at the poker table?'
A: Absolutely...[...]

The question should be the complete opposite and Elky answers as if it was anyway. His success at poker should be credited to SC not the other way round...

Don't know if Elky misunderstood the question or the editors fudged it on purpose.
clazziquai
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
6685 Posts
July 15 2009 23:45 GMT
#37
"Starcraft is definitely my expertise"

Yay!
#1 Sea.Really Fan / #1 Nesh Fan / Terran Forever~
armed_
Profile Joined November 2008
Canada443 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-15 23:57:05
July 15 2009 23:55 GMT
#38
On July 16 2009 08:40 Elric wrote:
The question should be the complete opposite and Elky answers as if it was anyway. His success at poker should be credited to SC not the other way round...

Don't know if Elky misunderstood the question or the editors fudged it on purpose.

Reading comprehension fail on your part, mostly.

Edit: That's not to say that it isn't a horribly written sentence or anything, but the use of history and success makes it fairly obvious what it's meant to mean.
Titusmaster6
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States5937 Posts
July 16 2009 00:06 GMT
#39
One of my friends is really into poker and I was surprised to know that he knew of SC players going on to becoming poker players.

Respect, and thanks for the article
Shorts down shorts up, BOOM, just like that.
poilord
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Germany3252 Posts
July 16 2009 00:11 GMT
#40
Thanks for the link.
It would be interesting to know if hiring a coach, agent, and manager worked out for him and if it actually helped him improve.
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