Kelopuro: I don’t think money has changed me much.

• Author: Qid
• Filed under: EskiMoes7, High Stakes News, High Stakes Results, LarsLuzak, LrsLzk, Poker, Sami Kelopuro
• Date: Mar 29,2009

Sami Kelopuro has made a name for playing the online poker in the biggest games there is under such nicknames as LarsLuzak, EskiMoes7 and LrsLzk. Couple years ago he completely destroyed biggest No Limit Hold’Em games, so completely that he was having a hard time in finding an opponent to play with!

Look like a hard job!

Sami didn’t play at Full Tilt Poker for a while, or at least not as LarsLuzak, but made his return last autumn and hasn’t left since. He was still playing under the radar at Betfair as Eskimoes7 all that time.

Games are nowadays just huge and Sami thinks that blinds can’t go much higher than $500/$1000 until something drastic happens. He even thinks that games are too big and most people are playing under-rolled at the biggest online games.

Kelopuro thinks that the recession at the market hasn’t affected the biggest games online. There is always same 10 to 15 regulars playing even at the time of recession and they don’t care about tough financial times much, but Sami would like to see more rich amateurs playing with sharks, players like Guy Laliberte perhaps.

Sami don’t think that he is the best poker player in the world, but he likes to challenge himself playing the toughest opposition. He thinks that sometimes he should wait for more players, but usually if he sees Phil Ivey sitting at the table he will go play against him. Kelopuro thinks that the actual edge between top players is very small, but if he felt that someone had a big edge against him he would probably stop playing.

Sami has won millions playing online poker, but he don’t think that money has changed him much. He has made a lot new friends thanks to poker, but he also hangs out a lot with his childhood friends. For Kelopuro, money is just money and it shouldn’t change who you are and how you relate to people.

Kelopuro is a lot better cash game player than a tournament player, but he still dreams about winning a WSOP bracelet some day. Actually, Sami thinks that he is a total tournament fish! Still, he is going to play at least few events at WSOP this year and he is thinking that it would be a great accomplishment to be the first Finnish WSOP bracelet winner.

The whole interview made by PokerNews.com can be found here.