1. ElkY has won a World Poker Tour, a World Series of Poker bracelet and a European Poker Tour title, giving him the Triple Crown.
16 Facts About ElkY
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ElkY is a PartyPoker Pro, and he currently resides in Prague, Czech Republic, as of 2024.
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ElkY maintained the number-one rank on the Global Poker Index for 18 weeks between July 2011 and October 2012.
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In November 2015, ElkY returned to the esports scene by joining Team Liquid as a Hearthstone player.
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ElkY was one of the top-ranked StarCraft players in the world, having placed second in the World Cyber Games in 2001 and continuing his career in South Korea for a few years subsequent, including a fourth-place finish in an Ongamenet Starleague.
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ElkY turned his attention to professional poker from 2004 to 2005, where he became a full-time poker pro.
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ElkY was the first person to reach "Supernova" and "Supernova Elite" statuses on PokerStars, having earned 100,000 and 1,000,000 player points in 2 weeks, and.
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In January 2008, ElkY finished in 1st place, winning $2,000,000 at the European Poker Tour's PokerStars Caribbean Poker Adventure.
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In October 2008, ElkY added to his tournament haul by winning the World Poker Tour's Festa al Lago tournament, claiming a $1.4 million first prize.
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ElkY became just the third person, along with Roland De Wolfe and Gavin Griffin, to win a title on both the WPT and EPT.
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ElkY was disqualified from event 29 in the 2008 World Championship of Online Poker for agreeing to go all-in blind with another player.
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On 18 September 2009, ElkY won his first WCOOP bracelet in event 38.
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ElkY added a second bracelet only three days later in Event 43 by besting a field of 9,220 entrants.
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ElkY won his first WSOP bracelet in the 2011 Seven Card Stud Championship, overcoming a field of 126 to collect $331,639 in prize money.
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ElkY won his second bracelet in the 2019 WSOPE, winning the $550 Colossus No-limit Hold'em event.
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Today, ElkY is a member of the "Champions for Peace" club, a group of 54 famous elite athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport, created by Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organization.