Шахматист выиграл миллион

Originally Posted by BadSeed

I interviewed Maratik for the Russian site where he had sold his action, and just decided to share a couple of random info.

He is almost 40 years old. Pretty decent chess player, experienced candidate master (no international rating, but estimated about 2300 I'd say).

Played a lot of SNGs across the internet, mostly to clean bonuses etc, never read any books on poker, and only improved by watching other players.

He had $150 roll on Stars while the Main Event was underway.

He sold 35% of his action after the level 10, when a decent part of the field was gone, so it was massive +EV for the backers.

RomeoPro is one of the brightest Ukrainian players, yesterday he busted Hellmuth and finished 7th (I think) at the WSOP Europe shootout. He plays on Stars under the same name, so his performance is easy to track.

No, he did not ghost maratik, because he was flying to Cannes.

Marat confirmed that many pros PMd him various ghosting offers. He said he declined because would hate to miss the chance of his lifetime thanks to bad advice. You can judge yourself from the replay. I am pretty sure he said the truth.

He said he will move on to 7$ buy-ins indeed, and will use the rest of the money to improve the quality of his life.

There was no vodka yet, because his friends are working people, so the celebration begins on Friday.

Overall he seems a very reasonable man. There is a quote from Gandhi in his profile on GipsyTeam.ru:

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Glad he won.

Also glad for Cart3r, played a lot with him at tripple draw tables around 5/10, considered him decent and always composed opponent. Of course it is sick to miss 100k being such a dominant chipleader and facing an amateur, but maratik was not a standard fish and definitely not easy to deal with.