Successful gamers who have gone on to crush poker - Poker News

Which gamers have gone on to big poker success other than:

Elky
Tillerman
Rekrul
mtw-Davin
Griffin Benger (shaGuar in CS, flush_entity in poker)

Am I missing any other big names?

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01-27-2013 , 06:17 AM

IMDABES

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trizip,good friend of mine, I might of gotten his gamer handle wrong, Counterstrike beast.

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01-27-2013 , 06:23 AM

manjondeere

grinder

Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 445

Nananoko

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01-27-2013 , 06:27 AM

SuqAta8

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bonomo, haxton.. (mtg still counts as gaming right?)

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01-27-2013 , 06:45 AM

idonot

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Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 278

define crushing and define gamers cause the number of mass multi tabling grinders who make lots of money playing poker, without beeing really "known" and who used to be gamers is pretty high, and very hard to determine.

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01-27-2013 , 07:18 AM

cdog

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I learned to love poker through a love of gaming, but I dont know exactly what qualifies as crushing... making $1m a year? Very few people are there. Making a comfortable living is fairly easy however.

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01-27-2013 , 07:21 AM

horse_winner

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Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 190

I've never played any of the esports games, but am pretty heavily involved in the fighting game community and have done pretty well. I know nano, hevad khan, and a few others were also pretty involved in the fgc, and have gone on to do very well in poker.

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01-27-2013 , 07:28 AM

tokeweed

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PHIL IVEY!

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01-27-2013 , 07:55 AM

elbuennico

lol wtf?

Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 2,958

Veldhuis

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01-27-2013 , 08:21 AM

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dankhank

dankest of hanks

Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 8,114

Lakerman

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01-27-2013 , 10:04 AM

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whatthejish

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 9,965

Chris Olaafson.

Last edited by whatthejish; 01-27-2013 at 10:04 AM. Reason: obv

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01-27-2013 , 10:38 AM

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Iamcloud

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Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 645

Used to play with a guy who was pretty solid in Age of Empires. His name was Vagabond_Lion. Someone told me he plays under Vaga_Lion and has won millions. Such a sicko

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01-27-2013 , 10:42 AM

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andi42

journeyman

Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 204

FiSHeYe(1984)

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01-27-2013 , 10:42 AM

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oracle3001

adept

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Originally Posted by Iamcloud

Used to play with a guy who was pretty solid in Age of Empires. His name was Vagabond_Lion. Someone told me he plays under Vaga_Lion and has won millions. Such a sicko

Is true...Rob Akery...plays under Vaga_Lion on stars and full tilt. Successfully moved from NL to PLO and is still found in the big games when they run.

http://www.highstakesdb.com/profiles...vaga_lion.aspx

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01-27-2013 , 10:42 AM

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luckofficial

adept

Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 1,090

doyle brunson

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01-27-2013 , 10:43 AM

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kkar

stranger

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KiWiKaKi wc3

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01-27-2013 , 11:08 AM

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TianYuan

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There's a whole bunch of the older generation of SC:ers that aren't really known but from what I've heard have done well for themselves... Slayer (the norweigan one, not the korean), SaFT (no idea what he's doing nowadays but he was playing fairly high for a long time as far as I know)....

Unsure if Freedom went back to Poker again after his brief Sc2 stint.

Byun-Eun Jong (i think that's his stars nick as well?) was a pretty famous SC2 player.

Some Korean old WC3 pros I've heard are doing good in China/Macau poker...

EDIT: But yeah, really depends on how you define 'big success'.

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01-27-2013 , 11:11 AM

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ruo42

banned

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I'm sure Athene can count for this

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01-27-2013 , 11:11 AM

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tuccotrading

old hand

Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,373

Jimmy Jimmy- Go champion.

He crushed black chip games for many years.

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Walter Brown, many-time U.S. Chess Champion, has beaten mid-limit poker all his life. Some might not call him a "crusher," but he is a very good player and a steady winner.

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01-27-2013 , 11:13 AM

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Bowflexin

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Kinda surprised David Williams hasn't been mentioned yet. Gabriel Nassif has a couple final tables as well I believe, but I don't know if that counts or not. Eric Froelich (sp?) is also from Magic.

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01-27-2013 , 11:24 AM

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Milo013

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Does Billy Mitchell play poker?

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01-27-2013 , 11:28 AM

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pokerclann1

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Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 835

The only 2 i can think of who crushes poker and had the same level of success in the gaming world is elky and flush_entity

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01-27-2013 , 11:28 AM

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coolstorytho

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Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 209

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Originally Posted by andi42

FiSHeYe(1984)

nostalgic fells as I believe that almost 10 years ago I played a Starcraft match against him -but didn't know he plays pokers now

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01-27-2013 , 11:45 AM

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Deoxyribo

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Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 2,028

Kiwikaki was a pro sc2 player that switched to poker. not sure how he does

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01-27-2013 , 11:51 AM

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Stoop Kid

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Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 516

Kevin Vandersmissen aka Civell

http://iveypoker.com/kevin-vandersmissen/

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