EPTBoxeR to become professional poker player - Page 18
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Tricks
United States252 Posts
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Drake
Germany6146 Posts
On December 06 2013 12:41 Netsky wrote: Isn't gambling illegal in Korea? since 2000 the good sc1 pros who went pokerpros was in korea (elky grrr etc) so ... where you hear that ? xD | ||
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ROOTFayth
Canada3351 Posts
On December 08 2013 06:45 Drake wrote: since 2000 the good sc1 pros who went pokerpros was in korea (elky grrr etc) so ... where you hear that ? xD gambling is illegal in korea for locals.. Elky, grrrr..., rekrul etc. can play because they aren't locals obviously also I believe Elky doesn't live in korea anymore | ||
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11cc
Finland561 Posts
On December 08 2013 06:30 SkullZ9 wrote: Dude, who are you to judge what Boxer does of his life ? Let him do what he wants and stop posting in this thread Have I tried to stop him from doing what he wants? No. I simply said that I was disappointed. Don't give a fuck about my opinion? Just ignore it. | ||
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dirtydurb82
United States178 Posts
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SantosPhillipCarlo
United States351 Posts
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lubu42
United States314 Posts
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theBALLS
Singapore2935 Posts
It just seems that so many players fall back to poker when their gaming careers don't work out. | ||
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iamho
United States3347 Posts
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ROOTFayth
Canada3351 Posts
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RaiZ
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ROOTFayth
Canada3351 Posts
aaaand wasted a lot of time playing SC2 on and off, started playing poker seriously again at the end of 2012 | ||
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mostevil
United Kingdom611 Posts
On December 08 2013 06:30 SkullZ9 wrote: Dude, who are you to judge what Boxer does He can be disappointed, who are you to judge what people can find disappointing or for that matter who can post in this thread. I have to admit I don't like poker at all, it's not exactly an elegant game. Maybe its just that after playing 4-5 games and winning every hand I possibly could but not coming anywhere close to winning the game I got disillusioned. Chance and I have a bad record, I need something where I can stack the odds more with my brain. Starcraft has its risks and dice rolls, but at least it doesn't start with a big dose of chance. Good luck to the fella though. Starcraft is clearly not making him happy now and its not going anywhere in Korea. | ||
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B-rye88
Canada168 Posts
On December 08 2013 12:03 theBALLS wrote: Can someone explain to me the close relation between SC2 and poker? It just seems that so many players fall back to poker when their gaming careers don't work out. Game-reading skills in SC2 translate well to hand-reading in poker. | ||
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Birdie
New Zealand4438 Posts
On December 08 2013 14:49 B-rye88 wrote: Game-reading skills in SC2 translate well to hand-reading in poker. A lot of the StarCraft Brood War pros moved to Korea and started playing poker in their spare time, and then found they could make more money playing poker than playing StarCraft, so they switched (e.g. Nazgul, Elky etc.). I think since then poker and StarCraft have had a certain amount of crossover in players, usually from StarCraft to poker. | ||
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ROOTFayth
Canada3351 Posts
On December 08 2013 14:49 B-rye88 wrote: Game-reading skills in SC2 translate well to hand-reading in poker. meh it's really completely different... I really believe the closest thing is the whole grinding thing like I knew kiwi would win money from poker when he asked me about it years ago because I knew he was a really dedicated grinder... and well smarter than your average player I guess, lots of player that I think could become good poker players in the SC2 community | ||
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Incanus
Canada695 Posts
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samurai80
Japan4225 Posts
On December 06 2013 13:03 NB wrote: i thought Korea has anti gambling rule? may be i mistaken it with china... Dunno. At least I can say it's forbidden in Japan. | ||
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Miss_Foxy
Singapore109 Posts
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ppshchik
United States862 Posts
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