Bertrand Grospellier is a French professional gamer and poker player residing in South Korea. Though his young career began in the gaming sector, having finished in the top 5 in the World Cyber Games competition 3 times, Bertrand turned his attentions to playing poker in 2005, where he found enormous success. In his 3 years of live poker tournament play, Bertrand Grospellier has already earned more than $2.5 million at the tables.

Grospellier has a quick mind and even quicker reaction time, granting him a natural talent for gaming, as is evident in his seven gaming championship accomplishments from the year 2001 to 2004. Bertrand best finish was a 1st place victory at the 2003 Euro Cyber Games in Paris, France. He also took 2nd in the 2001 World Cyber Games, and 2nd again in the Ongamenet WarCraft Retail League.

By 2005, Bertrand Grospellier’s interested had shifted unanimously to the game of poker. His online poker username drew quick attention, and it wasn’t long before Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier was a well known threat to contend with. Grospellier’s first live tournament cash was earned in February of 2005 during the French Open, EPT/PokerStars Season 1, making the final table but finishing soon after in 9th position. Grospellier pocketed $2,621 for this initial live tournament achievement, and the story only gets better from there.

Bertrand entered the 2006 World Series of Poker, where he collected $10,478 for a 37th place finish in an early No Limit Hold’em event. A few months later, Bertrand was back on the EPT road of season 3, taking a seat at the 17th European 7 Card Stud Championship, deemed “The Big One”. A 16th place finish earned Grospellier another $16,485.

While Bertrand Grospellier’s tournament cashes were becoming slowly but progressively more lucrative, his next purse would be significantly more impressive than any prior. Still following the EPT Season 3, Bertrand entered the Scandinavian Open in January of 2007. Grospellier not only made the final table, but went heads-up with Magnus Pettersson of Sweden for the title. Grospellier’s luck ran out before the day was over, but his 2nd place victory awarded a substantial purse of $406,726, along with the much deserved respect of the world.

Bertrand Grospellier would go on to cash 5 more times during 2007, including one EPT3 event, three WSOP events and the first annual Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) in Macau. His best finish was at the APPT in November, taking 9th place for $48,576.

In the most grand exploit of his short but exceptional poker career, Bertrand Grospellier took down the entire field at the 2008 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure of EPT Season 4. On January 10, Grospellier won the No Limit Hold’em tournament, letting the world know that he truly was a force to be reckoned with as he accepted his largest tournament cash to date, $2,000,000.

Grospellier’s online poker adventures have earned him fame as well. At PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker room, Grospellier is known across the boards as “ElkY”. In terms of VIP ranking, “ElkY” was the first member of PokerStars to ever earn the Supernova status by accumulating 100,000 player points in only 2 weeks time. He then went on to collect more than 1,000,000 points in 4-1/2 months, gaining him Supernova Elite status.

It should come as no surprise that Bertrand is a member of Team PokerStars, an elite group of professional poker players with phenomenal skills, proven time and again. With so few years as a professional poker player under his belt, at the age of 27, Grospellier is well on his way to becoming one of the top poker players in the world. All told, Bertrand has cashed in 12 live tournaments with only the one 1st place finish thus far, but $2,664,153 to show for it.