Mike Gorodinsky is a three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner who’s coming off a summer time the place he took down the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. championship for $422,747. The Russian-born professional, who was raised in St. Louis, Missouri, received his first bracelet again in 2013, taking down the $2,500 Omaha and stud eight-or-better combine occasion. But Gorodinsky’s greatest rating stays the $1,270,086 he pocketed for profitable the 2015 $50,000 Poker Players Championship.
Although the 37-year-old has the resume of a event professional, with greater than $4.2 million in cashes and the title of 2015 WSOP Player of the Year, he’s additionally a feared money sport participant. The mixed-games grasp spent years competing in among the greatest money video games unfold on the earth, battling it out with the most effective gamers in Bobby’s Room in Las Vegas for stakes as excessive as $4,000-$8,000.
Highlights from this episode embody the transfer from St. Petersburg to St. Louis, eloping in Greece, drunk 1 a.m. on-line classes, studying bankroll administration the laborious approach, shopping for a automotive with all of his winnings, the net event that stored him in poker, a love for literature, an workplace in Tijuana, battling for high-stakes with Phil Ivey, million-dollar swings, the ‘detriment’ of getting his personal motion, an ‘unpleasant’ loss to Phil Hellmuth, a bizarre historical past with the Poker Players Championship, giving freely his bracelets, buy-in inflation, poker personalities, New Zealand restaurant video games, faux beef with Doyle Brunson and the reward of the unfortunate sweater.
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