Bertrand Grospellier

Bertrand Grospellier (born February 8, 1981) is a pro gamer and poker player from France. He currently resides in South Korea.

Gaming

Grospellier was one of the top ranked Starcraft players in the world, having placed second in the World Cyber Games in 2001 and continuing his career in South Korea in the years subsequent including a fourth place finish in a Ongamenet Starleague. By 2002 he picked up the newly released WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos and showed success by finishing second in the televised Ongamenet WarCraft Retail League before retiring

Poker

He has turned his attention to professional poker the last few years, qualifying for several events in the 2006 and 2007 World Series of Poker. Grospellier is a member of Team PokerStars. On Saturday, January 20, 2007 he finished second in the Copenhagen event on the European Poker Tour for 309,000 Euros. He was the first person ever to reach “Supernova” and “Supernova Elite” statuses on PokerStars - having earned 100,000 player points in just 1 month and 1,000,000 player points in 12 months respectively.

As of 2008, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,500,000.

European Poker Tour

In January 2008, Grospellier, finished in 1st place winning $2,000,000 at the European Poker Tour’s (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Poker Adventure