Arseni Karmatsky

Arseni Karmatsky
Personal information
Year of birth	1990 or 1991
Nicknames 0	josef_shvejkPokerStars, partypoker, 888poker & Full Tilt Poker kastabanGGPoker
place of residence	Ekaterinburg
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	0.$ 478,451
Total prize money	$ 1,686,281
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	no
Cashes	11
Best main event	268th ( 2018 )
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	1
Cashes	3
Main Event of the PokerStars Championship
title	no
Cashes	1
Main Event of party poker Live
title	1
Cashes	3
Last updated: August 10, 2020

Arseni Karmatski ( Russian Арсений Карматский ; English transcription Arseniy Karmatskiy ; also Arsenii Karmatckii ; * 1990 or 1991 ) is a professional Russian poker player .

Poker career

Karmatski has been playing on various online poker platforms under the nickname josef_shvejk and as kastaban at GGPoker since December 2012 . He has more than $ 5 million in online tournament revenue . In the PocketFives ranking, which lists the most successful online poker tournament players in the world, the Russian was temporarily in fourth place in 2018. Since 2014 Karmatski has also participated in renowned live tournaments .

In April 2017, Karmatski finished third at the main event of the WSOP International Circuit in Cannes and received prize money of almost 60,000 euros . In mid-August 2017 he won the partypoker German Poker Championships in Rozvadov with a prize of 185,000 euros. At the end of March 2018, Karmatski also won the main event of the European Poker Tour in Sochi . For this he prevailed against 860 other players and secured prize money of 27.3 million Russian rubles , which at that time was the equivalent of almost 480,000 US dollars. In addition, he received a "Platinum Pass" worth 30,000 US dollars, which entitles him to participate in the PokerStars Players Championship in January 2019 in the Bahamas . In June 2018 , Karmatski was successful for the first time in the main tournament series of the World Series of Poker in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino and came in the money in six tournaments of the No Limit Hold'em variant . At the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas, he finished second in a side event in mid-January 2019 and received prize money of more than $ 250,000.

Overall, Karmatski has earned more than $ 1.5 million in poker in live tournaments.

Web links

• Arseni Karmatski in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Arseni Karmatski in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• Arseni Karmatski in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)
• Arseni Karmatski in the database of Pocket Fives (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Arsenii Karmatckii Wins the German Poker Championship Main Event on poker.partypoker.com on August 15, 2017, accessed on October 27, 2018.
2. ↑ josef_shvejk in the PocketFives database, accessed on March 31, 2018.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Arseni Karmatski in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 31, 2018 (English).
4. ↑ WSOP International Circuit - Cannes (€ 1,350 + 150 No Limit Hold'em Ring Event 3 - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 31, 2018 (English).
5. ↑ partypoker German Poker Championships (€ 2,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - German Poker Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 31, 2018 (English).
6. ↑ European Poker Tour (EPT) Sochi (₽ 192,000 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Sochi Main Event (Event # 5)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 31, 2018 (English).
7. ↑ Aresniy Karmatskiy clinches a Platinum Pass, his ticket to paradise on pokerstars.com from March 30, 2018, accessed on March 31, 2018 (English).
8. ↑ Arseni Karmatski in the World Series of Poker database, December 29, 2018 (English).
9. ↑ PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) 2019 ($ 2,200 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 8)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 16, 2019.