SabaAba 0 Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 Came across this, and realised is this the same Yevgeny Kafelnikov - $24,600, that was the #1 tennis player just a few years ago?Date / Time: 2005-06-10 03:12:00 Title: End of Day One Log: It's the end of day one in the $1500 Seven Card Stud Event. There are still three tables with 20 players remaining. Play will resume at 3pm tomorrow. Their chip counts are as follows:Abe Almalhi - $86,100, Minh Nguyen - $80,100, Mark Burtman - $70,900, Robert Glenn - $63,500, Cliff Josephy - $50,800, Greg Mascio - $47,400, Glenn Englebart - $47,600, Ardell Willis - $47,400, Carl Brucher - $45,100, Kirill Gerasimov - $35,300, Randy Holland - $32,000, Murray Reinhart - $32,000, Leandro Alvarez - $28,500, Yevgeny Kafelnikov - $24,600, Thor Hansen - $17,800, Lawrence Budenz - $14,200, Richard Tatalovich - $13,000, David Levi - $6,400, Hugo Meija - $3,100, George Rechnitzer - $2,000 Link to post Share on other sites
jack24bauer24 0 Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 Yes it is, he quit tennis in part because he wanted to make it as a poker player. Link to post Share on other sites
SabaAba 0 Posted June 10, 2005 Author Share Posted June 10, 2005 Yeah I had heard that too, I was just surprised that it was not getting more coverage, I think that's a big deal. I bet if Spiderman or Ben made it, they would get huge coverage. Oh well! Link to post Share on other sites
jamesfinch 0 Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 Yeah, he has been playing quite a few of the tournaments in Europe. I think he won over £100,000 ($190,000) in one tournament this year. Not bad for a tennis pro Link to post Share on other sites
Kendren 1 Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 God, I can see the tennis analogies already. Calls the flop the serve. Forehand straight. Backhand fush draw. Instead of ballboys, chip runners. And yellow fuzzy balls are.... well... yellow fuzzy balls. Kinda murky there. Link to post Share on other sites
JimmyWellington 1 Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 Woo hoo!Go Kirill! Get me some more points!!Oh yeah, the tennis guy is doing well too. Link to post Share on other sites
NicksDad1970 0 Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 Yeah I had heard that too, I was just surprised that it was not getting more coverage, I think that's a big deal. I bet if Spiderman or Ben made it, they would get huge coverage. Oh well!After Toby won that tourney I din't hear much of it. Same as Bennie. Link to post Share on other sites
mrdannyg 274 Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 he made a final table in one of the EPT events also.doesn't seem to me like there are too many top-level european players eh? seems like devilfish, vaswani, perrault and very few others. Link to post Share on other sites
speedz99 145 Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 he made a final table in one of the EPT events also.doesn't seem to me like there are too many top-level european players eh? seems like devilfish, vaswani, perrault and very few others.Spoken like a true American.I'm one too, so I don't necessarily mean that as an insult... Link to post Share on other sites
TheIceman05 0 Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 he made a final table in one of the EPT events also.doesn't seem to me like there are too many top-level european players eh? seems like devilfish, vaswani, perrault and very few others.The whole of the Hendon Mob, as well. Don't forget that Omaha is the big European game, so they just aren't going to get as much US exposure.Ice Link to post Share on other sites
clashcityrocker 0 Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 he made a final table in one of the EPT events also.doesn't seem to me like there are too many top-level european players eh? seems like devilfish, vaswani, perrault and very few others.Barny Boatman, Padraig Parkinson, Joe Beevers, Harry Demetriou, Gus Hansen. I could go on. America is not the world. Link to post Share on other sites
mrdannyg 274 Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 i'm not american.points are well taken though - hendon mob, demetriou, hansen and there are others i'm sure. just seems that there are a lot of european and especially british players relative to the amount of high level pros. then again probably over 100 million people play in the US, with only a couple hundred real pros (don't ask me to define this term).ohhhh canadaour home and native landtrue patriot lovewith all thy sons commanddanieleh? Link to post Share on other sites
speedz99 145 Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 i'm not american.points are well taken though - hendon mob, demetriou, hansen and there are others i'm sure. just seems that there are a lot of european and especially british players relative to the amount of high level pros. then again probably over 100 million people play in the US, with only a couple hundred real pros (don't ask me to define this term).ohhhh canadaour home and native landtrue patriot lovewith all thy sons commanddanieleh?I'm jealous that your national anthem kicks ass and our sucks. Link to post Share on other sites
mbreon 0 Posted June 10, 2005 Share Posted June 10, 2005 he made a final table in one of the EPT events also.doesn't seem to me like there are too many top-level european players eh? seems like devilfish, vaswani, perrault and very few others.Hmm...I'm sure I can think of a couple:Carlos Mortensen, Gus Hansen, Devilfish, Marcel Luske, Harry Demetriou, Ram Vaswani, Surinder Sunar, Martin de Knijff, Chris Bigler, Barny Boatman, Joe Beevers, Peter Costa, Pascal Perrault, Dave Colclough, Tony Bloom, Lee Salem, Thor Hansen, David Benyamine, Chris Johanssen, Paul Maxfield, Julian Gardner, Jeff Lissandro. Yea, no one worth a poo from Europe. >sw< Link to post Share on other sites
doubleatrain 0 Posted June 11, 2005 Share Posted June 11, 2005 It occurs to me...isn't Vince Van Patten a former tennis pro type? If this former tennis player being discussed makes it to the final table of a WPT event...God help us all. Link to post Share on other sites
troutsmart 0 Posted June 11, 2005 Share Posted June 11, 2005 Came across this, and realised is this the same Yevgeny Kafelnikov - $24,600, that was the #1 tennis player just a few years ago?Date / Time: 2005-06-10 03:12:00 Title: End of Day One Log: It's the end of day one in the $1500 Seven Card Stud Event. There are still three tables with 20 players remaining. Play will resume at 3pm tomorrow. Their chip counts are as follows:Abe Almalhi - $86,100, Minh Nguyen - $80,100, Mark Burtman - $70,900, Robert Glenn - $63,500, Cliff Josephy - $50,800, Greg Mascio - $47,400, Glenn Englebart - $47,600, Ardell Willis - $47,400, Carl Brucher - $45,100, Kirill Gerasimov - $35,300, Randy Holland - $32,000, Murray Reinhart - $32,000, Leandro Alvarez - $28,500, Yevgeny Kafelnikov - $24,600, Thor Hansen - $17,800, Lawrence Budenz - $14,200, Richard Tatalovich - $13,000, David Levi - $6,400, Hugo Meija - $3,100, George Rechnitzer - $2,000And Kirill, the Matt Damon lookalike who finished 2nd in a WPT event, is his poker coach. Link to post Share on other sites
mrdannyg 274 Posted June 11, 2005 Share Posted June 11, 2005 he made a final table in one of the EPT events also.doesn't seem to me like there are too many top-level european players eh? seems like devilfish, vaswani, perrault and very few others.Hmm...I'm sure I can think of a couple:Carlos Mortensen, Gus Hansen, Devilfish, Marcel Luske, Harry Demetriou, Ram Vaswani, Surinder Sunar, Martin de Knijff, Chris Bigler, Barny Boatman, Joe Beevers, Peter Costa, Pascal Perrault, Dave Colclough, Tony Bloom, Lee Salem, Thor Hansen, David Benyamine, Chris Johanssen, Paul Maxfield, Julian Gardner, Jeff Lissandro. Yea, no one worth a poo from Europe. >sw<i wish my name was Thor.Gardner is a great player - thanks for the inclusive list.I'm going to change my name to Thor de Knijff Link to post Share on other sites
Pokerghost2 0 Posted June 11, 2005 Share Posted June 11, 2005 him not poker, him tennis. Link to post Share on other sites
mbreon 0 Posted June 11, 2005 Share Posted June 11, 2005 No problem, mrdannyg. And Thor is a great first name. The ultimate irony would be naming your son Thor and having him become an accountant or something like that. Link to post Share on other sites
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