Bertrand Grospellier
Online gaming has taken the world by storm. A lot of men and women have been hook to the virtual work. Good thing that producers of these games also hold competitions for their avid supporters. Frenchman Bertrand Grospellier was considered to be one of the best Starcraft players in the world. He moved to Korea in 2001 and won second in the World Cyber Games and fourth in the Ongamenet Starleague. He soon found out that his talent in Starcraft could be very well applicable to poker. Since then, he
applied his strategies and won big cash prizes. A friend of his introduced him to Pokerstars and that started his successful career in poker.
Also known as ElkY in the gaming world, Grospellier became one of the top earners of Pokerstars and was the first to attain the Supernova Elite level in the VIP club. From online gaming, he ventured to live poker. In 2007, he landed second place at the European Poker Tour Copenhagen Dkr 37,500 Main Event and walked away with $399,953. He got his biggest prize when he finished on the top spot in the 2008 EPT Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure with a whopping $2,000,000! October of the same year, he won the World Poker Tour Festa al Lago $15,000 with a prize of $1,411,015. Talk about making millions in just a year alone. He is the third person to win a title in both World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour thus awarded World Poker Tour’s Player of the Year.
ElkY moved to London so he could be closer to all the great poker tournaments in Europe. In his spare time, he still spends it in the gaming world. Surely, we can expect more from this guy in the years to come. There is no stopping ElkY from taking the poker world by storm.