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Some weeks ago, Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier (picture) won the poker tournament "Caribbean Adventure" for USD 2,000,000! In autumn, Florian "FA_Morgoth" Langmann was runner-up for the EPT Europe in London for more than USD 600,000. Last summer, Daniel "Rekrul" Schreiber was the youngest person to ever win a WSOP bracelet.
There are many other names that are or at least were famous in the StarCraft scene and that are astonishingly successful at poker nowadays. Other names to mention are former WCG runner-up Fredrik "[pG]FiSheYe" Keitel (picture) or German all-time stars Simon "SoL.Schnibl0r" Münz and Robert "eSa.Fenris" Möckel.
What is it that makes StarCraft players so fit for poker? Robert "eSa.Fenris" Möckel explains.
- StarCraft and poker are both real time strategy games, and in their segment, they are the most challenging ones. At poker, you have to do quick strategic decisions and really understand the physics and mathematics of the game. Both StarCraft and poker can be seen as a science; you have to learn and practice in both games.
If GosuGamers is the largest international StarCraft community, then the same must count for poker and PokerStrategy: available in 11 Languages, Forums with hundreds of thousands of postings, news & resources around poker.
PokerStrategy claims to be the largest poker school in the world, and if you have a look at only the German part of its forums, that be really be true. Found by Dominik "[pG]Korn" Kofert, who was one of the first Europeans to ever visit Korea for StarCraft back in the old days, also eSa.Fenris calls this company his home. The before-mentioned [pG]FiSheYe (world record WCG participant and 2005 runner-up for StarCraft) and Schnibl0r all learned to play poker on PokerStrategy.
To some, the large stockpiles of strategic articles, coaching videos (kinda like audio replays) and discussions might be reason enough to take a look at PokerStrategy.com. To others (and maybe even most), the offer to try what you learned for real money without investing a cent on your own is the even more convincing part of the offer.
As a new member, you are offered to take part in a quiz. It certainly is not easy, but they offer articles to build up the knowledge that is asked for in the test. If you pass the quiz, you - especially as a former StarCraft fellow - prove yourself worthy of a risk-investment of $50 that you might play poker with. PokerStrategy will not get its money back, unless they succeed in learning you enough poker so you do not just blow the money away - because they only get a fee from the casino you play on, and if you do not win with PokerStrategy's strategies, this would be less than the $50.
In the intransparent poker world where many are afraid of investing own money or even giving away their bank account details, this is a good opportunity to challenge yourself: who will be the next StarCraft player at the top of the poker world?
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What is it that brought so many StarCraft players to become so successful with poker? And what about poker anyway? Isn't that just another casino game of luck?
Some weeks ago, Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier (picture) won the poker tournament "Caribbean Adventure" for USD 2,000,000! In autumn, Florian "FA_Morgoth" Langmann was runner-up for the EPT Europe in London for more than USD 600,000. Last summer, Daniel "Rekrul" Schreiber was the youngest person to ever win a WSOP bracelet.
There are many other names that are or at least were famous in the StarCraft scene and that are astonishingly successful at poker nowadays. Other names to mention are former WCG runner-up Fredrik "[pG]FiSheYe" Keitel (picture) or German all-time stars Simon "SoL.Schnibl0r" Münz and Robert "eSa.Fenris" Möckel.
What is it that makes StarCraft players so fit for poker? Robert "eSa.Fenris" Möckel explains.
- StarCraft and poker are both real time strategy games, and in their segment, they are the most challenging ones. At poker, you have to do quick strategic decisions and really understand the physics and mathematics of the game. Both StarCraft and poker can be seen as a science; you have to learn and practice in both games.
If GosuGamers is the largest international StarCraft community, then the same must count for poker and PokerStrategy: available in 11 Languages, Forums with hundreds of thousands of postings, news & resources around poker.
PokerStrategy claims to be the largest poker school in the world, and if you have a look at only the German part of its forums, that be really be true. Found by Dominik "[pG]Korn" Kofert, who was one of the first Europeans to ever visit Korea for StarCraft back in the old days, also eSa.Fenris calls this company his home. The before-mentioned [pG]FiSheYe (world record WCG participant and 2005 runner-up for StarCraft) and Schnibl0r all learned to play poker on PokerStrategy.
To some, the large stockpiles of strategic articles, coaching videos (kinda like audio replays) and discussions might be reason enough to take a look at PokerStrategy.com. To others (and maybe even most), the offer to try what you learned for real money without investing a cent on your own is the even more convincing part of the offer.
As a new member, you are offered to take part in a quiz. It certainly is not easy, but they offer articles to build up the knowledge that is asked for in the test. If you pass the quiz, you - especially as a former StarCraft fellow - prove yourself worthy of a risk-investment of $50 that you might play poker with. PokerStrategy will not get its money back, unless they succeed in learning you enough poker so you do not just blow the money away - because they only get a fee from the casino you play on, and if you do not win with PokerStrategy's strategies, this would be less than the $50.
In the intransparent poker world where many are afraid of investing own money or even giving away their bank account details, this is a good opportunity to challenge yourself: who will be the next StarCraft player at the top of the poker world?
Links
PokerStrategy.com - PokerStrategy
