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Bertrand Grospellier

Bertrand Grospellier was born on February 8, 1981 in Melun in France. Right since childhood, he was always extremely competitive and that is what led him to play video games as a young boy. In the year 2001, he moved to Korea to become a professional player.

Bertrand Grospellier loved the game Starcraft and he regularly competed in the Korean Pro Gaming league and at competitions like the World Cyber Games and the Ongamenet Starleague.

The records that he was able to make there were extremely remarkable and incredibly impressive. That was when he was twenty something and his friend introduced him to poker. The first time that he began to play the game was at PokerStars. The wins that he was able to garner for himself went on to showcase to him that he had a bright future in this field. What really stood him in good stead was the way he was able to think analytically and quickly on his feet. This kind of gaming skills certainly set him aside from the other players and propelled him to the big league. That was when he set his eyesight really high wanting to achieve the status of Supernova on the site.

Within four and a half months he had become the very first "Supernova Elite" player. He was well known by his online name "ElkY,"

That is when he moved on from only online poker to live poker tournaments, and he was soon able to achieve a second place finish at the European Poker Tour Scandinavian Open in 2007, which was worth nearly $400K.

Then in January, he won his first EPT event, taking home $2 million for winning the 2008 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.

The very next year after that, he won the NLHE high roller event at the PCA.

Within a few years of playing poker, Bertrand Grospellier aka Elky was able to win for himself more than $6 million in live tournaments. He was not only winning himself great money but also getting several prestigious online poker titles. One such renowned and prestigious title was the WCOOP.

Bertrand Grospellier lives in Paris in France. He has 39 cashes and Total Winnings of $6,147,477. He has 3 First Place Finishes and the ProRank 1 Position of 505.

He has won the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Season 8/EPT Season 7/NAPT Season 2 at the

EPT Main Event - No Limit Hold'em and got himself a position of 126th. This enabled him to earn $20,000 on Jan 8, 2011.

Bertrand is a Team PokerStars Pro and has a remarkably good poker resume.

The moment he turned his attention to playing cards professionally from the game of Starcraft he had been getting one win after another his way. He was able to taste immediate success coming his way.

His play at the poker tables and the wins that he has got to his side has been extremely impressive. His rise to the top is phenomenal and quite unmatched to other players of his age.