Anatoly Gurtovoi

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Anatoly Gurtovoi
  Personal information  
Year of birth 1972 or 1973
Nickname
nameless55PokerStars
place of residence RussiaRussia St. Petersburg
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 5,983,597
Total prize money $ 6,586,898
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 7th
Last updated: January 21, 2020

Anatoly Gurtowoi ( Russian Анатолий Гуртовой ; English transcription Anatoly Gurtovy or Anatoly Gurtovoy ; * 1972 or 1973 ) is a Russian businessman and poker player .

Poker career

Gurtowoi plays on the online poker platform PokerStars under the nickname nameless55 . Since 2008 he has been taking part in renowned live tournaments .

In early January 2009, Gurtowoi finished 149th in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event in the Bahamas for $ 12,500 in prize money. At the beginning of September 2011 he finished fourth in a high roller on the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Barcelona for just under 65,000 euros . At the end of May 2012, Gurtowoi landed in twelfth place at the EPT Main Event in Monte-Carlo and received 70,000 euros. In mid-October 2016 he was invited by Guy Laliberté , the founder of Cirque du Soleil , to the Big One for One Drop Extravaganza , an exclusive poker tournament in Monte-Carlo. When a buy-in of one million euros by then most expensive poker tournament world reached Gurtowoi at a field of 26 players to the final table . There he took second place on the evening of October 16, 2016 after losing heads-up against the Chinese Elton Tsang and received prize money of almost 5.5 million euros.

Overall, Gurtowoi has earned more than 6.5 million dollars with poker in live tournaments.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Final Report on wsop.com, accessed on March 12, 2019 (English).
  2. Detective work during the EPT Grand Finals - RaiseOnce is either Ivey or Seidel on hochgepokert.com on May 10, 2012, accessed on February 8, 2018.
  3. Super Tuesday: pucho2100 bags the win on pokerfirma.com on February 24, 2016, accessed on February 8, 2018.
  4. a b Anatoli Gurtowoi in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 8, 2018 (English).
  5. PCA - 2009 ($ 9,700 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 8, 2018.
  6. EPT - 8 - Barcelona (€ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Single Reload) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 8, 2018 (English).
  7. EPT - 8 - Grand Final (€ 10,000 + 600 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 8, 2018 (English).
  8. The Monte-Carlo One Drop Extravaganza (€ 888,889 + 111,111 No Limit Hold'em Big One For One Drop) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 8, 2018 (English).