Bertrand Grospellier

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Bertrand Grospellier
Bertrand Grospellier (2020)
Bertrand Grospellier (2020)
  Personal information  
Date of birth February 8, 1981
place of birth FranceFrance Melun
Nickname ElkY
place of residence United KingdomUnited Kingdom London
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0$ 2,278,657
Total prize money $ 14,664,517
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 2
Cashes 45
Best main event 122nd ( 2009 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
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Cashes 7th
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
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Cashes 18th
  Main Event of the PokerStars Championship  
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Cashes 2
  Main Event of party poker Live  
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Cashes 1
Last updated: August 19, 2020

Bertrand Gilles Etienne "ElkY" Grospellier (born February 8, 1981 in Melun ) is a professional French poker player and e-sportsman .

Grospellier has earned more than $ 14.5 million in live poker tournaments , making him the most successful French poker player . He is a two-time bracelet winner of the World Series of Poker and won the Main Event of the World Poker Tour and the Main Event of the European Poker Tour once . He is one of nine poker players who have completed the so-called Triple Crown . Grospellier was the only Frenchman to have been at the top of the poker world rankings for a total of 19 weeks .

Grospellier plays Hearthstone for Team Liquid .

E-sports

Grospellier played StarCraft professionally before starting his poker career . His greatest achievement was second place at the 2001 World Cyber ​​Games . The following year he was fourth and in 2003 fifth. He is the only French player to have competed in the professional StarCraft leagues in South Korea as a player on the AMD Dream Team . Grospellier has been part of the Liquid team since November 13, 2015 .

poker

On-line

Grospellier achieved his first notable success in poker when he won the PokerStars Pro-Gamer Challenge on January 13, 2005. He was also the first player to achieve Supernova Elite status of the PokerStars VIP Club on PokerStars . 2009 he won two events at the of PokerStars discharged World Championship of Online Poker and thereby received about 500,000 US dollars prize money. On May 19, 2015 reached Grospellier as part of the of PokerStars discharged Spring Championship of Online Poker at a tournament in sixth place with 79,000 US dollars, the highest so far during a live stream on the platform Twitch prize money won. Grospellier played for Team PokerStars for more than 11 years until the end of 2017 . From mid-April 2018 he was brand ambassador for the partypoker platform . Grospellier has been representing the online poker room GGPoker since May 2020 .

live

Career

Grospellier was successful for the first time in July 2006 at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and came in the money in a tournament of the No Limit Hold'em variant . In mid-January 2007 he reached the final table at the main event of the European Poker Tour in Copenhagen and finished the tournament in second place behind the Swede Magnus Petersson for a cash prize of around 400,000 US dollars. In early January 2008, Grospellier won the main event of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventures (PCA) held in the Bahamas as part of the EPT . For this he prevailed against 1135 other players and received a prize of 2 million US dollars. At the end of October 2008 ElkY also prevailed at the main event of the World Poker Tour (WPT), the Festa Al Lago Classic in the Hotel Bellagio , and secured a prize money of more than 1.4 million US dollars in addition to the WPT title. In January 2009, he won the PCA High Roller for around $ 430,000. In mid-April 2009, Grospellier took third place at the WPT Main Event, the Five Star World Poker Classic , and received almost 800,000 US dollars in prize money. At the beginning of May 2011 ElkY won the EPT High Roller in Barcelona for 525,000 euros and only a few days later another high roller at the same place with a prize of 153,000 euros. At the 2011 WSOP , he won the World Championship in Seven Card Stud in mid-June 2011 . In addition to the victory bonus of around 330,000 US dollars, Grospellier received a bracelet for this achievement and was the fourth player to complete the Triple Crown after Gavin Griffin , Roland De Wolfe and Jake Cody . Two weeks later, he made the final table of the No Limit Hold'em Six Handed Championship and secured another $ 450,000 for third place. In April 2012 ElkY finished third in the EPT Super High Roller in Monte-Carlo for 621,000 euros. From April to November 2016 he played as part of the Paris Aviators in the Global Poker League , but missed the playoffs with his team. At the 2017 WSOP , Grospellier finished second behind Doug Polk in the most expensive event on the tournament schedule, the High Roller for One Drop with a buy-in of $ 111,111, for his highest cash prize of over $ 2.2 million . At the beginning of November 2019, Grospellier prevailed at the Colossus event of the World Series of Poker Europe at King's Resort in Rozvadov and secured his second bracelet and a prize of over 190,000 euros. In December 2019, he finished second in the Super High Roller at EPT Prague and received prize money of around 500,000 euros.

Prize money overview

Grospellier at the EPT in Monte-Carlo (2008)
year Prize money (in $ ) Tournament victories
2005 00.00.2591 -
2006 00.026,454 -
2007 00.513,652 -
2008 03,686,476 2
2009 01,642,560 3
2010 00.478.249 2
2011 02,296,619 3
2012 01,697,309 1
2013 00.427.925 -
2014 00.081,941 -
2015 00.135.006 -
2016 00.011,011 -
2017 02,515,454 -
2018 00.091,062 -
2019 00.965.207 1
2020 00.093,000 -
total 14,664,517 12

Bracelet overview

Grospellier cashed 45 times at the WSOP and won two bracelets :

year Buy-in competition Attendees Prize money
2011 E. $ 10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship 0126 $ 331,639
2019 E 00.550 € Colossus No-Limit Hold'em 2738 € 191,172

Web links

Commons : Bertrand Grospellier  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bertrand Grospellier in the database of the Global Poker Index, accessed on February 16, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ Bertrand Grospellier in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 9, 2017.
  3. ↑ Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier: Facts, Statistics and Profits , poker.de, accessed on March 17, 2019.
  4. ↑ Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier comments on the split with PokerStars on hochgepokert.com on January 28, 2018, accessed on April 27, 2018.
  5. ↑ Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier as the new partypoker Pro on pokernews.com on April 16, 2018, accessed on April 27, 2018.
  6. ↑ Alongside Negreanu and ElkY, Fedor Holz is a new member of the GG Team Pro on hochgepokert.com from May 4, 2020, accessed on May 4, 2020.
  7. ↑ 37th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2006 ($ 2,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 27, 2018.
  8. ↑ EPT - 3 - Copenhagen (DKr 37,500 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 27, 2018 (English).
  9. ↑ PCA - 2008 ($ 7,800 + 200 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 27, 2018.
  10. ↑ 6th Annual Festa Al Lago Classic ($ 15,000 + 400 WPT Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 27, 2018.
  11. ↑ PCA - 2009 ($ 24,500 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 27, 2018.
  12. ↑ Seventh Annual Five Star World Poker Classic ($ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - Championship Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 27, 2018.
  13. ↑ EPT - 7 - Grand Final (€ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 27, 2018 (English).
  14. ↑ EPT - 7 - Grand Final (€ 10,000 + 30 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller Turbo) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 27, 2018 (English).
  15. ↑ 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2011 ($ 10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 27, 2018.
  16. ↑ 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2011 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - Six Handed Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 27, 2018.
  17. ↑ EPT - 8 - Grand Final (€ 98,500 + 1,500 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller 8 Max) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 27, 2018 (English).
  18. ↑ Paris Aviators on the Global Poker League website, accessed May 13, 2016.
  19. ↑ 48th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2017 ($ 111,111 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller for One Drop (Event # 6)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 6, 2017.
  20. ↑ World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) 2019 (€ 550 No Limit Hold'em - The Colossus (Event # 15)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 5, 2019.
  21. ↑ European Poker Tour - EPT Prague (€ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Super High Roller (Event # 12)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 11, 2019.
  22. ↑ Bertrand Grospellier in the World Series of Poker database, accessed November 4, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Grospellier, Bertrand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grospellier, Bertrand Gilles Etienne (full name); ElkY (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French poker player and e-athlete
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Melun , France