New meaning for the word 'ace'
Apparantly Yvegeny has officially retired from Tennis and become a professional poker player....see thread "Is poker getting too popular?".
Yevgeny Kafelnikov, former No 1 tennis player in the world, had his first major win at his new game of choice — poker — at the Russian Open in Moscow last week, The Independent writes.
His prize for outlasting a field of 52 in the $300 Omaha hi-lo competition was just over $10,000.
The winnings are not much compared to the fortune he has earned as one of the world’s top tennis players over the last decade, but he reacted as though he had won Wimbledon, the British newspaper writes.
The Independent goes on to explain how Kafelnikov got interested in poker. He apparently began having a flutter on the roulette tables when there was a casino near one of the tennis tournaments he happened to be taking part in.
Then he saw poker being played and, being a sensible kind of guy, the paper says, he realized there was more to the game than pure luck.
First he tried his hand at seven-card-stud in German casinos, then learned hold’em and Omaha.
Now, however, his preferred game is the more complex Omaha hi-lo, a form of poker that is popular with many professionals as there is a lot of “dead money†in the game: “dead money†being poker-speak for players with plenty of cash who are very unlikely to win.
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Yevgeny Kafelnikov, former No 1 tennis player in the world, had his first major win at his new game of choice — poker — at the Russian Open in Moscow last week, The Independent writes.
His prize for outlasting a field of 52 in the $300 Omaha hi-lo competition was just over $10,000.
The winnings are not much compared to the fortune he has earned as one of the world’s top tennis players over the last decade, but he reacted as though he had won Wimbledon, the British newspaper writes.
The Independent goes on to explain how Kafelnikov got interested in poker. He apparently began having a flutter on the roulette tables when there was a casino near one of the tennis tournaments he happened to be taking part in.
Then he saw poker being played and, being a sensible kind of guy, the paper says, he realized there was more to the game than pure luck.
First he tried his hand at seven-card-stud in German casinos, then learned hold’em and Omaha.
Now, however, his preferred game is the more complex Omaha hi-lo, a form of poker that is popular with many professionals as there is a lot of “dead money†in the game: “dead money†being poker-speak for players with plenty of cash who are very unlikely to win.
stp