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The Proust Questionnaire: Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier

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Former Starcraft king turned tournament crusher/PokerStars pro, the many-hued Grospellier has been a fixture on the poker circuit - and in the winner's circle - from the second he found the game.

With over $10 million in career earnings ElkY's firmly in the top 20 poker earners of all-time, and despite a comparatively limited number of huge scores lately he shows no sign of giving up his spot anytime soon.

Also one of the most fun-loving pros on tour, our colleague at PokerListings France Fred Guillemot caught up with him at a recent tour stop for a round with the always-popular Proust Questionnaire.

Results below; find out more on the classic Proust Questionnaire right here.

Bertrand Grospellier2
ElkY the Lion.
 

PokerListings.com: If you were an animal, what would you be?

Bertrand Grospellier: A lion.

PL: If you were a country...

BG: The United States.

PL: If you were a city...

BG: Hong Kong.

PL: If you were a poker tournament...

BG: The WSOP Main Event.

PL: If you were a poker card...

BG: The ace of spades.

PL: If you were a movie...

BG: The Dark Knight.

Bertrand Grospellier
ElkY the Joker.
 

PL: If you were a sport...

BG: Tennis.

PL: Besides poker, what's your favorite addiction?

BG: (smiling) Caffeine.

PL: If you were a fictional character...

BG: Batman.

PL: What's your favorite song? 

BG: At the moment, it's Follow Me by Muse, probably because it's their latest single. I just love that band.

PL: What's your favorite sound?

BG: The sound it makes when people fold on the Internet.

PL: And the one you hate?

Bertrand
Elky the hard charger.
 

BG: “Raise!” (laughs)

PL: What's your favorite quality in a woman?

BG: Loyalty, I guess.

PL: And in a man?

BG: The same.

PL: What's your main fault?

BG: Oh, I have a lot of these... I guess I have a hard time being mild, I'm always at 100% for everything. It can be a good thing, but more often than not it's not.

PL: Which fault do you forgive most easily?

BG: Excessive self-confidence.

PL: What's your favorite word?

BG: “Love.”

Bertrand Grospellier
ElkY the raiser.
 

PL: And what's the one you hate?

BG: “Impossible.”

PL: Which superpower would you like to have?

BG: I think being able to stop time would be nice.

PL: What's your biggest fear?

BG: I used to be very scared of heights, before my jump in Macau, but I'm better now.

I managed to do it because my coach was there, and I was pumped. Plus the guys from PokerStars in Asia pushed me because they'd told the media that I was going to do it, so everyone was there to see me.

I was petrified, but actually, once you're falling, even head-first, it's far less scary. It’s psychological, because it is obviously safe, nothing can really happen.

PL: What do you hate the most?

Bertrand Grospellier
ElkY the winner.
 

BG: Lack of honor and values.

PL: If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

BG: Honestly, I'd like to change a lot of things. But I think it's all my experiences and decisions that have made me who I am today, so I'm not sure I want to change that.

BG: You know, I don't want some sort of butterfly effect, where you just change one little thing and everything's different.

PL: If you hadn't become a poker player, what would you have liked to do?

BG: Formula 1 driver, or actor. That's what I wanted to do when I was young. Or chemist.

PL: If God exists, what would you like Him to tell you when you die?

BG: “Congratulations!”

PL: What would you like to be reborn as?

BG: I love cats, so a cat I think.



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