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Yevgeny
Kafelnikov, former No 1 tennis player in the world, had
his first major win at his new game of choice — Texas
Holdem poker — at the Russian Open in Moscow last week,
The Independent writes.
His prize for outlasting a field of 52 in the $300 Omaha
hi-lo competition was just over $10,000.
The winnings are not much compared to the fortune he has
earned as one of the world’s top tennis players over the
last decade, but he reacted as though he had won
Wimbledon, the British newspaper writes.
The Independent goes on to explain how Kafelnikov got
interested in poker. He apparently began having a
flutter on the roulette tables when there was a casino
near one of the tennis tournaments he happened to be
taking part in.
Then he saw poker being played and, being a sensible
kind of guy, the paper says, he realized there was more
to the game than pure luck.
First he tried his hand at seven-card-stud in German
casinos, then learned Texas holdem and Omaha.
Now, however, his preferred game is the more complex
Omaha hi-lo, a form of poker that is popular with many
professionals as there is a lot of “dead money” in the
game: “dead money” being poker-speak for players with
plenty of cash who are very unlikely to win.
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