London & Las Vegas: Ivan Demidov

Arriving to the final table he did the most impressive result ever for a Russian player, ending in 3rd place in this huge event played in London. He has already won more than 6 Million dollars in his young career. Like many other players he started his poker life playing StarCraft, but after graduating in 2004 he left Moscow with his degree in math searching for a lucrative life joining the poker circuit. In few years he become one of the youngest talent of the poker tables.
He started to play in Moscow before 2008 cashing in few important tournaments of the Russian capital, during 2007 he got the final table at the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic playing a side event ending in 3rd position and earning $21,710. He went to the 2008 WSOP with his bankroll, he got almost $40,000 ending 11th in the $1,000 No Limit Hold’em and after that he join the rest of the players in the Main Event, there were almost 7,000 players that year. After playing for 11 days he reached the Final Table of the most important event of the year. The November Nine, the dream of every poker player. During the pause between the qualification for the Final Table and the November Nine itself he went to London and get the 3rd place in the Main Event of the WSOPE, becoming the first player ever to get to the final tables in both the Main Events. He won $608,995 in Europe. He came back to Las Vegas and played the final heads up against Peter Eastgate, loosing the bracelet but earning almost 6 million Dollars.
The 3rd place in London and the 2nd place in Las Vegas are one of the most impressive performance ever made by a player.

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So I start with the player directly to my left.

Seat number 1. Doyle Brunson. I thought about it and I don’t think you can have a dream poker table without Doyle. So I’ve also decide to give Doyle position on me, hoping as he’s old school, he isn’t as aggressive as some other players. Doyle Brunson has always been an Idol of mine. So it’s only fair he gets to sit next to me.

Next to Doyle. Phil Hellmuth. Phil goes on so much about him being the best player in the world. So I would love to prove him wrong by constantly stealing his blinds from the button. Plus, Phil would bring some entertainment to the table. I would have great fun winding him up.

Seat number 3. Gus Hansen. I have always been a massive fan of Gus Hansen. Gus was the reason I started playing poker. I should correct that. Gus is the reason I lost alot of money when I started playing poker. I used to watch Gus and thought if I was as aggressive as him, I would have no problems cleaning up at any table. I was wrong. So I feel I have bone to pick with him. Plus I would love to see the best loose aggressive player in action.

Now to seat number 4. Phil Ivey. Currently, in my opinion, Ivey is the best playing in the world. That’s been confirmed by him final tabling the WSOP main event, winning 2 bracelets and cashing 5 times in this years WSOP. So Ivey has to be at the table, and I also need position on him or I’m sure I won’t be there long.

So to my right. Seat number 5. Daniel Negreanu. I have always been a fan of the small pot poker strategy and Daniel is the best small pot poker player in the world. I would love to study him and try and learn from the master. Plus I hear he is a really nice guy. Hopefully that will make up for Phil Hellmuth being at the table.

And finally. Seat number 6. Gerry Poltorak. me. I am 100% sure I would get cleaned out. But boy would I enjoy the experience. With the highlight being pissing Phil Hellmuth off raising his big blind and then sucking out on him. Then listen for the infamous Hellmuth rant.