{"id":134686,"date":"2021-06-17T15:31:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog?p=134686"},"modified":"2021-06-17T15:31:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:31:32","slug":"netpobu4-my-motto-is-never-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/netpobu4-my-motto-is-never-give-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Netpobu4: My Motto Is Never Give Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We thought it was an incredible achievement when we learned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/mochalov13-wins-legend-of-the-week-leaderboard-three-times.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>&#8220;mochalov13&#8221;<\/strong><\/a> had topped a <strong>Legend of the Week<\/strong> leaderboard on three separate occasions. It was something we did not think would be beaten for some time. We were wrong because Belarusian grinder <strong>&#8220;Netpobu4&#8221;<\/strong> went one step better by winning two leaderboards during the same week!<\/p>\n<p>Netpobu4 finished in first place on both Leaderboard 1 and Leaderboard 2 last week, which resulted in <strong>$1,242 worth of Daily Legends<\/strong> tickets hitting his partypoker account!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1x The Warrior ticket ($215)<\/li>\n<li>2x The One Shot tickets ($111 each)<\/li>\n<li>5x $150 Daily Legends tickets<\/li>\n<li>1x Gladiator ticket ($55)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The low-stakes superstar is 38-years-old, was born and still lives in Minsk, Belarus, and has been playing poker since as far back as 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I only play tournaments&#8221;, the double leaderboard winner told the partypoker blog. &#8220;From 2007-2010, I played in the community team BelarusPoker. They were, at the time, trying to promote poker as a sport in Belarus. Then from 2010 to 2019, I practically did not play. At the beginning of last year, I decided to return to poker. The game has changed a lot; you need to train every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Netpobu4 learned about the Legend of the Week promotion via our Russian <strong>YouTube channel<\/strong>, where he regularly tunes into our coverage of online poker&#8217;s biggest and richest tournaments. Perhaps we will see his alias on stream in the future.<\/p>\n<h2>Deep runs secure top leaderboard prizes<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-134443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Russia-one1-346x600.jpg\" alt=\"Daily Legend Russia\" width=\"346\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Russia-one1-173x300@2x.jpg 346w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Russia-one1-173x300.jpg 173w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Russia-one1.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/daily-legends\/legend-of-the-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legend of the Week<\/a> promotion rewards players for excelling in selected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/daily-legends\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Legends<\/a> events. Winning one of those tournaments gives you a great chance of finishing on top of a leaderboard, but it is unnecessary to do so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the $2.20 leaderboard, I finished one tournament in second place and enjoyed three or four deep runs. I won a $5.50 tournament for Leaderboard 2. Again, there were several deep runs in qualifying events, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Netpobu4 may be the first player to win two Legend of the Week Leaderboards in a single week, but <strong>he was pretty humble about the fact<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s always nice to win, even a freeroll tournament. Now my goal is to chase another record, that of mochalov13!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Our double champion is just happy to be able to play in some higher stakes tournaments that he would no ordinarily be bankrolled for had he not won the tickets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just good to play. I will see how it goes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Running badly in big buy-in tournaments<\/h2>\n<p>This is not the first time Netpobu4 has been given the opportunity to play in high-stakes tournaments for free. We will let him explain why.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>I took third place on the Leaderboard 1 last week<\/strong> and used one ticket for a $150 buy-in PKO. I managed five knockouts for $192 and finished in 21st place for an additional $208.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year, I qualified for a big tournament from a freeroll and made it to Day 2, but busted with kings versus ace-queen all-in preflop around 30 places before the money. At the same time, I turned a freeroll into a $1,000 satellite entry where 13x $10,300 packages were up for grabs, with 14th place paying almost $7,000. I finished around 32nd after losing kings versus queens preflop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is hoping Netpobu4 runs better when he uses this latest batch of tickets.<\/p>\n<p>As we were wrapping up our interview with Netpobu4, he said he wanted to dedicate his double victory to someone special.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The promotion is just super; such promotions motivate me to play more and play better. I dedicate this and the next victories to my wife, who died in March after contracting the coronavirus, and to my 12-year-old son, who she left behind and who is worried sick about me. <strong>My motto is to never give up<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Love poker? Join party!<\/h3>\n<p>If you\u2019re ready to jump into the action, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/download\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>click here to download partypoker and get started<\/strong>!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you already have an account with us, click here to <a href=\"https:\/\/promo.partypoker.com\/en\/promo\/launch\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>open partypoker and hit the tables!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We thought it was an incredible achievement when we learned &#8220;mochalov13&#8221; had topped a Legend of the Week leaderboard on three separate occasions. It was something we did not think would be beaten for some time. We were wrong because Belarusian grinder &#8220;Netpobu4&#8221; went one step better by winning two leaderboards during the same week!<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/netpobu4-my-motto-is-never-give-up.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":134410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1309,300],"tags":[184,1424,1425],"yst_prominent_words":[5200,23739,26013,7590,3595,41708,32842,33328,2251,4304,2588,2582,7114,4416,3596,2648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134691,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134686\/revisions\/134691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134686"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=134686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}