Bertrand Grospellier
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Name: Bertrand Grospellier
Date of birth: 8 February 1981
Place of residence: London
Lists: 1 title EFA 1 WPT title, $ 5,700,000 in tournament winnings, Member of the team Pokerstars
Nickname: Elky
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Bertrand Grospellier prior interest in poker was recognized as one of the best players in the world of Starcraft, a strategy game in real time. He is one of the few non-Korean to really break into the middle. He accumulated the places of honor, finishing at number 3 in the first world champion. He also won the Euro Cyber Games in 2003 in Paris.
But in 2002, Bertrand Grospellier retired from video games and started to play poker . He always kept the same name, Elky, which comes from the name of a character in role play. It is often better known on this alias, Elky that under his real name.
By his own admission, his debut at poker were a bit tedious with substantial losses but the player had already integrated into the framework of learning
Indeed Elky started directly blind 1 / 2, well above what most players can
After this learning phase the machine was launched and nothing could stop it. Bertrand Grospellier became the first player after only 13 days to get the status Supernova, then the highest ranking for the online poker room Pokerstars. She then proposed a sponsorship contract with Elky, who then joined the Pokerstars team, he has not left since.
Elky has begun poker live until 2006 this did not prevent him to 28 years have higher earnings to $ 5,700,000, making it the 107th largest in the world but especially in the first place in France before David Benyamine
His achievements in detail
Bertrand Grospellier has so far failed to great performances in the World Series Of Poker simply by finishing 6 times in the places which once paid in 2007 at the gates of the final table. However this only 3 editions qu'Elky is really the WSOP so you can trust us to soon leave its mark.
2008 $ 10,000 WSOP Main Event 370th $ 28.950
2008 $ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em 16th $ 31.781
2007 $ 2,500 No Limit Hold'em 9th $ 29.124
2007 $ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em 21st $ 20.806
2007 $ 2,000 No Limit Hold'em 68th $ 6.966
2006 $ 2,000 No Limit Hold'em 37th $ 10.478
2008 remembered as the year of all the achievements for Bertrand Grospellier. A few months after his victory at the PCA and a slump in the 2008 WSOP, Elky returned in force to the front of the stage with El Lago WPT Festa he won in October 2008 adding $ 1,400,000 to its counter and a 2nd major title that makes it go in the final group of the greatest players of poker french.
Read the full article on the victory Elky in WPT Festa Al Lago
In 2009, we should not wait long to see a new Elky successful exploit. Always in Season VII, World Poker Tour he finished 3rd in fact the grand finale of World Poker Tour, the WPT World Championship which took place from 18 to 25 April. It is a pot with AJ against A7 and A8 for its opponents all-in preflop which prevent it from going further. He still won $ 776.245 for his efforts.
Read the full article on the WPT World Championship.
However, with this 3rd place and his victory at the WPT Festa Al Lago, Elky becomes the player of the year for Season VII of the WPT, becoming the first non-North American to win this honor, after 4 and 2 American Canada.
European Poker Tour
In January 2007, Bertrand Grospellier had grown very close to succeeding in winning the
EPT Copenhagen. But he ultimately failed to 2nd place, winning all the same $ 400,000. But for this competition was a real disappointment difficult to accept.
Luckily his revenge has taken a year when he took the biggest tournament ever held by the EFA 1200 participants, $ 7,800 Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure. It is then left with $ 2,000,000 and the satisfaction of having accomplished the greatest French performance to date in terms of earnings, arguing Bruno Fitoussi him the greatest success with his 2nd place in the WSOP $ 50,000 HORSE.
In January 2009, Elky wins $ 25,000 High Rollers at Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure. Eliminated in the first day of main event to defend his title, he takes revenge and won $ 433.500 before Humberto Brenes and Eli Elezra, the other 2 players in the final table.
Elky occupies 3rd place players who have won the most money in the European Poker Tour.
Find the video of the EPT Copenhagen with the 2nd place ElkY
Find the video of the 2008 EPT PCA with victory Elky for $ 2,000,000.
Other performances
Co-Elky comments Pokerstars NRJ12, reality show around the poker company Fabrice Soulier. It can also be found in the French version of the live hosted by Pokerstars.
Bertrand Grospellier lot continue to play online, with its pseudo Elky and he is one of the players known the world over the Internet.
He also renewed his performance on Pokerstars by becoming the first player to reach the VIP 1,000,000, giving it access to supernova elite status. It took 4 months in 2007. Only 30 players in 2007 have managed this feat on the site.
06 March 2009, Elky took 3rd place in the National Head's Up Championship and won $ 125,000
