Mike Gorodinsky

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Mike Gorodinsky
  Personal information  
Year of birth 1986
place of birth Soviet UnionSoviet Union Leningrad
Nickname
gordo16PokerStars
place of residence United StatesUnited States Denver
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 1,270,086
Total prize money $ 3,321,165
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 2
Cashes 26th
Best main event 87th ( 2016 )
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 2
Last updated: February 9, 2020

Mike Gorodinsky (* 1986 in Leningrad , Soviet Union ) is a professional American poker player . He is two-time bracelet winner of the World Series of Poker .

Personal

Gorodinsky was born in Leningrad , today's Saint Petersburg. Originally from St. Louis . Gorodinsky lives in Denver .

Poker career

Career

Gorodinsky learned poker by playing under the nickname gordo16 on the online poker platform PokerStars . Since 2008 he has been taking part in renowned live tournaments .

In mid-June 2009 Gorodinsky was the first time in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas successful and finished at a tournament of the variant PLO 42nd place for almost 5000 dollars . In January 2010, he won the 8 Game Championship at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure on Paradise Island , winning over $ 100,000 in prize money for the first time. At the end of May 2013 , Gorodinsky prevailed in a WSOP event played in Omaha / Seven Card Stud Hi / Lo and won his first bracelet and a prize of more than 200,000 dollars. At the 2015 World Series of Poker , he finished second behind Phil Hellmuth in the Seven Card Razz Championship on June 6 and finished third in a six-handed tournament in No Limit Hold'em nine days later . On June 21, 2015, he won the renowned Poker Player's Championship and with it his second bracelet as well as his biggest prize money to date of almost 1.3 million dollars. In total, Gorodinsky reached four final tables that year and secured more than $ 1.7 million from eight cash placements. Because of this achievement, he was named WSOP Player of the Year 2015 . At the beginning of February 2018, Gorodinsky won the second event of the US Poker Open at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas with a prize of almost 180,000 dollars.

In total, Gorodinsky has earned more than three million dollars playing poker in live tournaments.

Bracelet overview

Gorodinsky cashed 26 times at the WSOP and won two bracelets :

year Buy-in (in $ ) competition Attendees Prize money (in $)
2013 0.2500 Omaha / Seven Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or Better 374 0.216,988
2015 50,000 The Poker Player's Championship 084 1,270,086

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kold som en russer on casinotop10.dk of October 30, 2015, accessed on November 12, 2015 (Danish).
  2. ↑ Mike Gorodinsky in the Global Poker Index database, accessed November 12, 2015.
  3. ↑ gordo16 on Pokerstars on highstakesdb.com, accessed on February 9, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b Mike Gorodinsky in the World Series of Poker database, accessed November 12, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b Mike Gorodinsky in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 12, 2015.
  6. ↑ 40th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2009 ($ 2,500 Pot Limit Omaha) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 12, 2015.
  7. ↑ PCA - 2010 ($ 5,000 + 250 8 Game Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 12, 2015.
  8. ↑ 44th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2013 ($ 2,500 Omaha / Seven Card Stud Hi / Lo (Event # 5)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 12, 2015.
  9. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 10,000 Seven Card Razz Championship (Event # 17)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 12, 2015.
  10. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed (Event # 32)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 12, 2015.
  11. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 50,000 The Players Championship (Event # 44)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 12, 2015.
  12. ↑ Mike Gorodinsky is 2015 WSOP Player of the Year, Isi Bojang sixth ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on pokerolymp.com from October 23, 2015, accessed on November 12, 2015.
  13. ↑ US Poker Open ($ 10,000 + 500 Pot Limit Omaha - (Event # 2)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 4, 2018 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Gorodinsky, Mike
ALTERNATIVE NAMES gordo16 (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad , Soviet Union