Lex 'RaSZi' Veldhuis, at the time a regular poster at the Liquidpoker forum, comically replied: Eldar, according to the topic starter, was a Scrabble youth champion, now playing poker. Eldar the Scrabble PlayerĬontrary to common practice, the original poster didn't just ask the question, he answered it right away as well, sharing that 'Deldar182' was likely David Eldar. I railed him or her for countless hours, following the player from mid-stakes through the highest limits. While browsing the then-popular poker forum Liduidpoker (a sister site of, a popular Starcraft website), I came across the thread ' Who is deldar182?' I had been an avid railbird of the high stakes community for close to three years at the time and knew the name ' Deldar182' all too well.

Meanwhile, Daniel Negreanu and other poker players try their luck at non-poker competitive games as well, making for the perfect crossover.īack in 2009, I discovered there was another competitive game producing at least a single great poker player. Alan 'hotted89' Widmann is hanging out with Viktor Blom to get better at poker and Thijs Molendijk plays the Unibet Open to see if he's as good at poker as he is at Hearthstone. The trend continues today with esports fanatics playing poker and poker players excelling at other games. But not just Starcraft players have found poker: players of Chess, Magic, Backgammon, Hearthstone and many other games have tried their hand at poker too. Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier might be the most notable example, finding poker after having made a career playing Starcraft. There are countless competitive gamers who have transitioned into poker.

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