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Russian Poker – The New Frontier

There have always been a couple of good Russian poker players on the circuit.  But now there seems to be quite few more Russian players that are finishing at the top of the leader boards.  15 Russians have cashed thus far at the WSOP, thats not bad at all!!

So far at the WSOP Vitaly Lunkin and his compatriots have done pretty well for themselves.  Lunkin, the winner of this year’s Russian Poker Tour, won $1.9 million at the inaugural no-limit holdem event at WSOP.  Not bad earnings, especially when you convert them back to rubles…

So is Russia the new poker frontier?  I don’t know but I bet there are going to be lots of great players from there.  After all there were many great chess players, so why not poker players?

Keep a look out for Kravchenko, Evdakov, Alekhin & Demidiv.

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