ElkY
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Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (born February 8, 1981) is a retired French Night Elf player.
Overview
[edit]ElkY is an ex-StarCraft, now-Poker player who was one of the first foreigners to go to Korea.
Achievements
[edit]| Date | Place | Tier | Tournament | Team | Result | Prize | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2003-04-19 | 9th - 12th | Tier 1 |  | Clikarena 2003 |  | 1 : 2 |   | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003-03-20 | 3rd - 4th | Tier 2 |  | OnGameNet League - 2003 - Season 3 | 1 : 2 |  | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003-01-06 | 5th - 8th | Tier 1 | | Intel Teams Championship |   | - | $420.43 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2002-12-26 | 9th - 16th | Tier 1 | | OnGameNet League - 2002 - Season 2 | - | $83.24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2002-11-23 | 3rd - 4th | Tier 3 |  | WarcraftStrategy.com $1000 Tournament - November 2002 | 1 : 2 |   | $89.10 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2002-09-12 | 2nd | Tier 1 | | OnGameNet League - 2002 - Season 1 |  | 0 : 3 |  | $8,337.93 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Extended list of results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| No recorded results found. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Earnings Breakdown
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Poker
[edit]As a poker player the last few years, he qualified for several events in the 2006 and 2007 World Series of Poker. ElkY is a member of Team PokerStars. He was the first person ever to reach "Supernova" and "Supernova Elite" statuses on PokerStars - having earned 100,000 player points in just 2 weeks and 1,000,000 player points in 4 and a half months, respectively.
- He set the Guinness World Record for most Single Table Sit & Goes played in one hour for a total of 62 at a $6.50 buy in with a profit of $23.60.
- As of 2012, his total live tournament winnings exceed $9,900,000.
Trivia
[edit]- Originally from Melun, France
- Blood type O
- Height: 198 cm
- Had a contract worth $ 42,000 per year while playing for AMD Dream Team.[1]
External links
[edit]Interviews
[edit]- 2003-08-21 | Interview with ElkY by Mynock
- 2005-01-23 | New Elky interview by Aleph
- 2005-01-24 | Apollo interviews Elky 1/24/03 [베르트랑이 했던 말...] by Apollo (trans. by 소를 잡았더라)
References
[edit]- ↑ LINYU.NET. "Dream Team23万美元签约AMD的一些细节". aomeisoft.com.