Konstantin Alexandrovich Maslak

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Konstantin Alexandrowitsch Maslak ( Russian Константин Александрович Маслак ; born August 27, 1984 in Volgograd ) is a Russian chess grandmaster and poker player .

Chess career

Maslak learned the rules of chess from his father and joined a chess club when he was nine. His chess successes in the youth field remained manageable. At the U16 championship of Russia in Sochi in 2000 , which Nikolai Kurenkow won, he finished fifth. In August 2003 he became International Master . In 2005 he took part with Sibirskije Afiny from Tomsk in the Russian team championship (higher league) in Sochi, achieving the best result on the second board with 6.5 out of 8. In the same year he shared first place with Julian Radulski at the Proclient Cup in Olomouc . At the Moscow Open 2006 he reached fourth place. At the Petrowskaja Ladja S tournament in Peterhof 2006 he was second, tied with the winner Denis Evsejew .

The grandmaster title was awarded to him in March 2008, and he achieved the necessary standards at the Chess Summer GM tournament in Olomouc in 2006 and at two of the Aeroflot Open in Moscow (2007 in group A1, 2008 in group A2). With fourth place in the Russian championship (higher league) in September 2008 in Novokuznetsk , he qualified for the superfinal. In Moscow he could not keep up with the strong competition and ended up in last place without a win. At the beginning of 2009 he won the OBERT Internacional on Illes Medes . In August of the same year he shared first place with Nils Grandelius at the Chess Summer GM tournament in Olomouc.

His Elo rating is 2555 (as of November 2018). This would put him in 84th place in the current Russian ranking, but he is listed as inactive because he has not played any rated games since the Czech Open in Pardubice in July 2017 . His highest rating to date was 2571 in January 2010. In addition to chess, he also plays poker.

Poker career

Konstantin Maslak
  Personal information  
Nickname
krakukraPokerStars
place of residence RussiaRussia Volgograd
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0.600,000 $
Total prize money $ 1,326,975
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 1
Cashes 21st
Best main event 671st ( 2011 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 1
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 5
  Main Event of party poker Live  
title no
Cashes 2
Last updated: January 6, 2020

Maslak has occasionally been seen at prestigious live poker tournaments since 2009 . At the Main Event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), he finished 671st in 2011 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas . His greatest success is winning a bracelet at the 2015 WSOP in the Omaha / Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or Better variant . In mid-November 2018, Maslak reached the final table at the main event of the partypoker Caribbean Poker Party in Nassau , Bahamas, and finished fourth, for which he received his highest cash prize of 600,000 US dollars .

Overall, Maslak has made more than a million dollars playing poker in live tournaments.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GM application to FIDE (English)
  2. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 2,500 Omaha / Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or Better (Event # 13)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 6, 2020.
  3. ↑ partypoker Caribbean Poker Party ($ 5,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Caribbean Poker Party Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 18, 2018.
  4. ↑ Konstantin Maslak in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 13, 2016 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Maslak, Konstantin Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maslak, Constantine; Маслак, Константин Александрович (Russian); krakukra (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian chess grandmaster and poker player
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Volgograd , Soviet Union