[Quand ?] En juin 2007, il fait une finale aux World Series of Poker (WSOP) dans un 2 500 USD No Limit Hold’em, et termine neuvième remportant 29 124 USD. En mai 2008, il finit cinquième du grand prix de Paris à l’Aviation Club de France et gagne 78 660 euros. Bertrand Grospellier is a professional poker player from the European country of France and he has also been a former gamer in the professional gaming world. Bertrand Grospellier est membre du Club des champions de la paix, un collectif d'athlètes de haut niveau créé par Peace and Sport, une organisation internationale basée à Monaco et qui œuvre pour la construction d'une paix durable grâce au sport. First he finished 32nd at the L.A. Poker Classic $9,900 Main Event for almost $40,000 and a few months later ElkY came close to his second WPT trophy at the Five Star World Poker Classic $25,000 Championship event. 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Grospellier first appeared in the World Series of Poker in 2006 and cashed in the $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em event for just more than $10,000. GGPoker Introduces SnapCam; Send Video Reactions to Your Opponents! Follow Bertrand Grospellier on Instagram and Twitter. After honing his skills online he has gone on to dominate live tournaments all over the world. Get the latest poker news, poker strategies, and special offers sent directly to your inbox. 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Bertrand Grospellier , also known as ElkY /ˈɛlki/, is a French poker player and former StarCraft: Brood War and Warcraft III esports player. Depuis novembre 2015[10], en parallèle de son activité au poker, il intègre l'équipe d'e-sport professionnelle TeamLiquid sur le jeu Hearthstone[11],[12]. He currently resides in London, England and travels the world playing most the major live poker tournaments. + Get the Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Texas Hold’em - FREE! Il termine ensuite vingtième du 2000 European Poker Tour Prague en décembre 2011. Nicknamed Elky, he is one of the most well decorated poker players to ever hail from France having won a World Series of Poker bracelet as well as a title on the World Poker Tour in addition to his title in the European Poker Tour. He made the final table and eventually placed eight for €20,230 in cash. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Championship, Event #62: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event, Event #36: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout, Event #7: €10,450 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event, Event #5: €10,450 Mixed Max - No-Limit Hold'em, Event 23: $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em - Six-Handed, Event #4: €3,200 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout, Event #46: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em / Six Handed Championship, Event #21: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship, Event #16: $10,000 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship (No-Limit), Event #13: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout, Event #35: $10,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em Championship, 39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event, Event 46 - $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Six-handed, Hand Analysis: Elky's Angst after Painful Lay Down, Global Poker Masters: Totally New Game Strategies, View more videos with Bertrand Grospellier, The Flow Show Episode 34: Team partypoker's Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier, PokerNews Podcast: Kristen Bicknell, Mike Sexton, Maria Ho, Fifteen Bracelets Awarded at the WSOP Europe at King's Resort, Analyzing a 3.7 Million Dollar River Card at the WSOP, 2018 WSOP International Circuit King's Casino Rozvadov, 2017 WSOP International Circuit King's Casino Rozvadov, 2017 PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino®, 2015 PokerStars.com EPT Season 12 Barcelona, 2015 PokerStars.fr EPT Season 11 Deauville, The 2012 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final, 2009 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship, 2007 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour - Macau, $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed Championship, Festa Al Lago Classic $15,000 Championship, Five Star World Poker Classic $25,000 Championship, PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $7,800 Main Event, PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $24,500 High Roller, Grand Final, Madrid €10,000 High Roller Turbo, Berlin €10,000 No-Limit Hold'em / 8 Max Re-Entry. Grospellier picked up poker in 2004 and in a few years became one of the best players in the field. « Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier remporte la triple couronne », « Elky : Le joueur pro de poker rejoint TeamLiquid sur Hearthstone », « Poker caritatif : ElkY au Timor avec l'organisation Peace and Sport », High Stakes Poker : Saison 6 épisode 9, les frenchies débarquent, ELKY le prodige du poker sur le site de l'INA, https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bertrand_Grospellier&oldid=174113073, Vainqueur d'un bracelet des World Series of Poker, Article contenant un appel à traduction en anglais, Article de Wikipédia avec notice d'autorité, Page pointant vers des bases relatives au jeu, licence Creative Commons attribution, partage dans les mêmes conditions, comment citer les auteurs et mentionner la licence, $ 111,111 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller for One Drop (Event #6), € 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller, 2009, Seventh Annual Five Star World Poker Classic, Las Vegas, $ 25,500 No Limit Hold'em - Championship Event, 2008, 6th Annual Festa Al Lago Classic, Las Vegas. Welcome and bienvenue to the official website of French professional poker player and Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier. If you want to play in the WSOP 2020 Online on GGPoker, you'll need to sign up for an account. Son surnom « ElkY » provient de « Elkantar », un nom de personnage de jeu de rôle. History will be made this summer, and my dream is to be part of it.". Fils d’un employé de banque, Bertrand Grospellier passe ses premières années à Melun[3], où il découvre les jeux vidéo très jeune, en jouant dès l'âge de 3 ans avec son grand frère âgé de 10 ans de plus que lui[4]. He says it was a "magical moment. Before he started playing poker, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier was one of the best StarCraft players in the world. I confirm that I am over the age of 18 years old and that I am happy to receive newsletters from PokerNews. Il sinscrit en 1999 à luniversité Henri-Poincaré Nancy I en DEUG MIAS, quil ne finira jamais, car il travaillait en même temps à Paris pour une salle de jeux en réseau qui finançait ses tournois. Fast-forward to 2020, and Grospellier says this is the first time since then that he's not spent June and July in Vegas playing in the best poker tournament in the world. Il commence par « multitabler » massivement les Sit-and-go sur le site de poker en ligne PokerStars, jouant parfois plus de vingt tables simultanément. Pour 2011, il s'est mué en spécialiste des tournois High-Roller (3ème place lors du 25.000 $ des L.A World Poker Classic et victoire lors du High-Roller à 25.000 € de la Grand Final EPT à Madrid). GGPoker Ambassador Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier is enjoying the 2020 WSOP Online on GGPoker, and we got the chance to catch up with the two-time bracelet winner. If you continue to use this website then we will assume you are ok with that. Huge festivals such as the WSOP attract the attention of the very best players, both live and online, with Triple Crown winner Grospellier no exception. Total life earnings: $14,664,517. En avril 2020, il annonce qu'il sera désormais l’ambassadeur de la room GGPoker et met fin à son contrat avec Party Poker.[33]. Nous voudrions effectuer une description ici mais le site que vous consultez ne nous en laisse pas la possibilité. Le champion de poker est notamment allé à la rencontre des deux mille enfants du centre « Action for Change Foundation »[35]. ElkY made poker history by becoming the first player to reach the PokerStars Supernova and Supernova Elite statuses. En 2005[7], Bertrand Grospellier fait la transition vers le poker, comme d’autres anciens joueurs de StarCraft, notamment Hevad Khan (en), Lex Veldhuis (en), Ryan Daut (en), Dan Schreiber (en), Guillaume Patry (en). Helps a lot for the mental aspect, and to keep on playing as close to your A game as possible when things get tough. Il finit notamment deuxième au World Cyber Games en 2001, derrière le coréen Lim Yo-Hwan (BoxeR)[8],[4] et poursuit quelque temps sa carrière en Corée du Sud, étant rémunéré pour son activité de « pro gamer ». READ MORE: GGMasters Smashes $1m Guarantee as Three WSOP Online Bracelet-Winners Crowned. En 2006, il est le premier joueur à atteindre le statut Supernova sur PokerStars, puis quelques mois plus tard le statut Supernova Elite (1 000 000 de VIP Player Points)[22]. In December of the same year he won the €3,000 Main Event at the Trophees Haussmann in Paris taking home €110,800. Get the latest poker news, poker strategies, and special offers sent directly to your inbox. Bertrand Grospellier s’est rendu au Timor oriental, petit pays d’Asie du Sud-Est. The 2008 and 2009 World Series' marked two and three more money finishes respectively, while two more came in 2010. www.elky.com ElkY finished second in the EPT Copenhagen Main Event stepping down to the winner Magnus Petersson and collecting $400,000 for his accomplishment. He played 62 $6.50 buy-in Sit'n'Go's and made a $23.60 profit. ElkY then took home $2 million in prize money along with the shiny trophy. Le 22 novembre 2013, il est classé vingt-cinquième de ce classement, mais il est le premier europeen du classement de la décennie en 2014[30]. World Poker Tour - WPT Asia Online Series, $ 1,050 No Limit Hold'em - Beat the Pros [Bounty] (Event #82), $ 600 No Limit Hold'em Deepstack Championship (Event #65), $ 500 No Limit Hold'em Mini Main Event (Event #63), $ 2,500 Double Stack No Limit Hold'em (Event #59), $ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship (Event #58), $ 10,000 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Championship (Event #54), $ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em - GGMasters WSOP High Roller Edition [Freezeout] (Event #56), $ 2,100 No Limit Hold'em Bounty Championship (Event #50), $ 400 Pot Limit Omaha - PLOSSUS (Event #42), $ 1,111 Every 1 for Covid Relief (Event #33), $ 1,000 + 100 No Limit Hold'em - MILLIONS Mini, € 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Super High Roller (Event #12), € 10,300 No Limit Hold'em - 8-Handed (Event #1), $ 1,000 + 100 No Limit Hold'em - Last Chance Turbo, $ 1,000 + 100 No Limit Hold'em - MILLIONS Mini Event, € 550 No Limit Hold'em - The Colossus (Event #15), € 10,350 No Limit Hold'em - WSOPE Main Event (Event #14), € 1,350 No Limit Hold'em - Mini Main Event (Event #3), $ 3,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Main Event (Event #5), درهم 13,200 No Limit Hold'em - WPTDeepStacks Main Event, € 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - MILLIONS Europe, € 1,000 + 100 No Limit Hold'em - MILLIONS Open, $ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em - The Closer (Event #84), $ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - WSOP Main Event, $ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em - Super Turbo Bounty (Event #56), $ 1,600 No Limit Hold'em - MSPT Event (Event #62), $ 2,620 No Limit Hold'em - Marathon (Event #26), € 4,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller, € 3,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Main Event (Event #2), $ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em - The Closer (Event #75), € 1,500 + 150 No Limit Hold'em - WSOP Circuit Main Event, € 5,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - WSOP Circuit High Roller, € 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller, No Limit Hold'em - WSOP China Main Event (Event #3), € 1,500 + 150 No Limit Hold'em - WSOP Circuit Main Event (Ring Event #11), € 25,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller, $ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em - Millionaire Maker (Event #20), $ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em - 6 Handed (Event #16), $ 111,111 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller for One Drop (Event #6), ₽ 318,000 No Limit Hold'em PokerStars Championship Main Event, € 5,300 No Limit Hold'em - PokerStars Championship Main Event (Event 24), € 1,000 + 100 No Limit Hold'em Main Event #23, € 1,000 + 100 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event, $ 2,200 #13 No Limit Hold'em -LAPT Bahamas Main Event, € 10,000 + 300 #61 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller, € 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller 8Max #58, € 2,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - Estrellas High Roller #24, $ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed Championship (Event #37), € 5,000 + 300 #11 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event, $ 9,700 + 600 #7 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event, $ 2,643 + 357 #2 No Limit Hold'em - LAPT Bahamas Main Event, HK$ 11,000 No Limit Hold'em - KO Big Bounty, £ 4,000 + 250 #16 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event, € 2,000 + 200 #14 No Limit Hold'em - Estrellas High Roller, $ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em - Six Handed (Event #24), € 5,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event, € 2,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - Eureka High Roller, € 2,250 + 250 No Limit Hold'em - FPS High Roller, € 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - EPT High Roller, $ 10,000 World Championship - No Limit Hold'em (Event #62), $ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em - Shootout (Event #36), € 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - 6 Max Turbo, € 2,700 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller, $ 7,150 + 350 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event, € 5,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - 6 Handed, € 10,000 + 450 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event (Event #7), € 10,000 + 450 No Limit Hold'em - Mixed Max (Event #5), $ 3,000 No Limit Hold'em - Six Handed (Event #23), € 98,500 + 1,500 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller 8 Max, € 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - 8 Max Re-Entry, € 5,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event, € 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - 8 Max Rebuy, $ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller Event, درهم 30,000 + 3,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller, £ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Six Max High Roller Turbo, $ 10,000 + 80 Main Event - No Limit Hold'em, $ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - Six Handed Championship, $ 10,000 No Limit Deuce To Seven Draw World Championship, € 10,000 + 30 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller Turbo, € 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller, $ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event, € 1,100 + 100 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event, $ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - Heads Up Championship, € 5,000 + 250 No Limit Hold'em - Heads Up, DKr 35,000 + 2,250 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event, € 10,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - Team Event, € 8,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event, $ 10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em, $ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - Championship Event, $ 9,900 + 100 Main Event - No Limit Hold'em, € 20,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller, $ 24,500 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller Event, € 10,000 Grand Prix De Paris - No Limit Hold'em, $ 7,800 + 200 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, $ 2,500 APPT Main Event - No Limit Hold'em, DKr 37,500 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event, € 5,000 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event.