So I got the newest issue of the magazine Popular Science (August 2009) and I found a little ad featuring Elky that I thought was pretty interesting. Kind of cool how he mentions Starcraft so much.

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Sorry if this is in the wrong forum section

omgbnetsux

United States3749 Posts

July 15 2009 20:18 GMT

Hadn't cracked my issue yet, I'll have to check it out. Thanks.

zizou21

United States3683 Posts

July 15 2009 20:28 GMT

thanks for sharing :D

Jonoman92

United States9105 Posts

July 15 2009 20:44 GMT

That's pretty cool. It reminds me of the autobiographical blog Rekrul wrote where he shared some similar thoughts on the similarities between being good at sc and poker.

Schnake

Germany2819 Posts

July 15 2009 20:45 GMT

That's fucking cool!

I wonder if it is possible to become a decent poker player without being good at SC because I never hear from noobs making money with poker.

Deleted User 3420

24492 Posts

July 15 2009 20:47 GMT

cool article

UmmTheHobo

United States650 Posts

July 15 2009 20:49 GMT

On July 16 2009 05:45 Schnake wrote:
That's fucking cool!

I wonder if it is possible to become a decent poker player without being good at SC because I never hear from noobs making money with poker.

I am pretty sure most professional poker players have never played starcraft

Zoler

Sweden6339 Posts

July 15 2009 20:49 GMT

Elky ftw, I love that guy. I remember when I was out walking with some BW friends and we saw a computer screen with a pokerstars commercial and we were like elky yeah :D

ToT)OjKa(

Korea (South)2437 Posts

July 15 2009 20:51 GMT

i saw a poker video today of ActionJeff and ElkY was on one of his SnGs :OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Jonoman92

United States9105 Posts

July 15 2009 20:51 GMT

#10

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.

thunk

United States6233 Posts

July 15 2009 20:54 GMT

#11

Cool article.

JohnnyCash

France244 Posts

July 15 2009 21:01 GMT

#12

Do you know the Starcraft aka of the people he mentions? (Daut, Liu, khan)
Thanks for the article btw

FragKrag

United States11554 Posts

July 15 2009 21:03 GMT

#13

nice article

Disregard

China10252 Posts

July 15 2009 21:03 GMT

#14

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Grospellier

CaucasianAsian

Korea (South)11587 Posts

July 15 2009 21:09 GMT

#15

On July 16 2009 06:01 JohnnyCash wrote:
Do you know the Starcraft aka of the people he mentions? (Daut, Liu, khan)
Thanks for the article btw

hevadkhan is z7Rain (RainKhan)
Ryan Daut is BigBalls and went to WCG USA Finals in early 2000's
Eric Liu i fail to know an ID

frozenclaw

Canada410 Posts

July 15 2009 21:10 GMT

#16

Haha, ex-StarCraft pro-gamer begins revolutionary approach to poker training. That's actually pretty cool. Too bad that it's just an advertisement, I imagine a lot of popular science readers will just think it's PokerStars trying to encourage people who think they're smart into gambling their moneys.

Archaic

United States4024 Posts

July 15 2009 21:15 GMT

#17

I have this issue! I just never finished it, and I left it at home before I left. I would have been so happy to read this, haha.

KOFgokuon

United States14899 Posts

July 15 2009 21:20 GMT

#18

good stuff

Straylight

Canada706 Posts

July 15 2009 21:25 GMT

#19

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.

Husky

United States3362 Posts

July 15 2009 21:26 GMT

#20

wow great find. Thanks for sharing this.

It just shows that you can really be good at anything as long as you try. I honestly think he would be good at any game he set his mind to, thankfully for him he picked one of the most rewards (Poker!)