EPTElky might play SC2 - Page 4
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Helluva
United States651 Posts
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Piou
Belgium415 Posts
If you think about it, he his the only Pro Gamer who made huge money after E-sports. Even HeatoN after CS 1.6 didn't make such a carrier. | ||
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some_pro
120 Posts
On October 10 2010 13:50 Borked wrote: cause you forfeit your education (for most progamers) so you don't have any special field. you either work your life from rock bottom or you go in a risky business like gambling. and as a professional RTS player, you have counters, early-mid-late games, cheese, hidden tech, "mindgames", etc. strategies those can be applied to poker. Poker is not gambling | ||
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SanWood
China5 Posts
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smoorn
Poland66 Posts
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Telcontar
United Kingdom16710 Posts
it could be an imposter but i think he's in my division. doing pretty well with random. | ||
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KameZerg
Sweden1772 Posts
 i wonder what ever happend to SaFT. | ||
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Mateo0
France112 Posts
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DooMeR
United States1519 Posts
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wintergt
Belgium1335 Posts
EDIT: What's next? Tillerman coming to SC2? Maybe.. agent911? | ||
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Vandro
Netherlands384 Posts
On October 10 2010 18:21 Piou wrote: I love how he kept his SC nickname when playing poker, if you watch "High stakes poker" (a poker game on tv - up yo $500.000 / player on the table ), the commentators use "ElkY" to talk about Bertrand. If you think about it, he his the only Pro Gamer who made huge money after E-sports. Even HeatoN after CS 1.6 didn't make such a carrier. SK.Soul (old-school WC3 player) was runner-up in the WSOP Main Event in 2008 cashing in $6.5 mil There are a couple of ex gamers doing reasonably well, but don't know if you can call them progamer. | ||
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Congism
Scotland123 Posts
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Grettin
42412 Posts
On October 10 2010 19:34 Congism wrote: 6 million dollars in prize money, and he complains about having to use his buddies account? If you start wasting your money, soon you wont have any! | ||
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Binominal
30 Posts
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Demus
Netherlands305 Posts
(i'm 27th or so). Good to see more of the old pro's coming back to SC2, even if they're not competing on the pro level anymore, their replays can still provide quite some entertainment value and possible new strats. | ||
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Teeny
Austria885 Posts
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Badjez.
Sweden56 Posts
On October 10 2010 18:37 Telcontar wrote: http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/983291/1/ElkY/ladder/10226#current-rank it could be an imposter but i think he's in my division. doing pretty well with random. I played him too and he claimed to be the real ElkY, he seemed like a nice guy so i hope it really was him. | ||
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Dantelew
Canada63 Posts
Don't kid yourself, even the best pros and theorists admit that you're crazy if you can believe that poker is not gambling. That being said, IF you're a winning player, it is considered "positive expected value" gambling. Anything where you put money down, when you don't know what your opponent has, you don't know what cards are coming up, and you don't know what anyone else is going to do.. Its gambling.. The best players in the world on any given night could lose fortunes to the worst players in the world. You can sure as hell believe that Tiger Woods wouldnt lose a round of golf to someone whos played once or twice in their life. | ||
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Fruscainte
4596 Posts
On October 10 2010 20:05 Dantelew wrote: Don't kid yourself, even the best pros and theorists admit that you're crazy if you can believe that poker is not gambling. For random people, yes, it's at the very basis, gambling. At pro level, I dont think you realize how much skill goes into it. Gambling implies that it's all luck that goes into it; further implying that randoms should always be winning tournaments and not the same people over and over. I may not be a pro, but I think I can safely say that Poker is more about reading your opponents emotions and facial expressions, figuring out potential chance of flops, managing money, than it is getting good hands and hoping to win. I'm learning some basic poker math right now, that gives me probability. Let's say I got a Queen and a King of diamonds, and on the flop there is Jack of diamonds. I am learning to accurately figure out what my chances are, taking into the account of X for my opponents hands, for me getting a flush or a straight (or any mix of the two) on the next two cards. It may be something fun that I'm learning, it may be something at least at the very minimum that pros do. Poker is not gambling. Slots are gambling. | ||
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Viruuus
Germany451 Posts
On October 10 2010 19:55 Badjez. wrote: I played him too and he claimed to be the real ElkY, he seemed like a nice guy so i hope it really was him. That has been confirmed to be the real ElkY. | ||
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