Philipp \u201cMoldran\u201d Karbun may be better-known for being a professional video gamer, but he is also a regular featured poker player on the partypoker Twitch channel.<\/p>\n
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Moldran first discovered poker when he was a 19-year-old high-school graduate. Moldran began his poker career playing for play money and managed to build his first bankroll through freerolls before switching to multi-table sit \u2018n\u2019 go tournaments. Soon after getting his foot on the poker ladder, Moldran switch to large field multi-table tournaments where he enjoyed immediate success, running very deep in two of them for a combined $2,000.<\/p>\n
\u201cI immediately cashed out; it was a lot of money for me back then.\u201d<\/p>\n
These days, Moldran prefers to play short-handed sit \u2018n\u2019 go tournaments, hyper-turbo heads-up sit \u2018n\u2019 gos and turbo MTTs.<\/p>\n
Playing video games competitively has its similarities to playing online poker<\/a>, at least according to Moldran.<\/p>\n \u201cI used to play World of Warcraft professionally for SK-Gaming, and many other former pro-gamers also transitioned into becoming professional poker players. Some of us have got very competitive personalities, always striving to become the best at whatever game we are playing. The experience from competing at a high level in video games definitely comes in handy when it comes down to facing tough opponents on the poker tables.<\/p>\n There are not only similarities between gaming and poker, some of the skills are easily transferable, too.<\/p>\n \u201cNever give up and never surrender! There is always a way to comeback, no matter how short you are. In my biggest MTT win (almost $4,100), I was actually down to two big blinds before I ran it up all the way to the final table out of 3,500 players. Furthermore, I won a 6-max hyper SNG after being down to only six chips when starting stacks were 500 chips each.<\/p>\n You may think that playing poker on a live stream on the partypoker Twitch channel<\/a> may make Moldran play poker to a higher standard, but he says it does the opposite because it can take his attention away from what is happening on his tables. But it isn\u2019t without its positives.<\/p>\n \u201cStreaming does not make me perform better, as I spend a lot of time interacting with the chat and tend to get more excited about big stacks and interesting hands. However, streaming makes playing poker so much more fun for me – sharing all the great moments with a crowd of people, and spending an entire evening talking with other passionate poker players about the game and hands is always a wonderful experience and definitely a highlight for me every week.\u201d<\/p>\n Many of Moldran\u2019s followers of his poker channel may be completely new to the game, having followed him over from his popular gaming channel, so Moldran has some advice for them and other beginners.<\/p>\n \u201cIn my opinion the most important advice – and I definitely had to learn this the hard way myself – is to follow a proper bankroll management. Always have at least 100 buy-ins for whichever SNG or MTT you are playing, and make sure to constantly work on improving your game off the tables.\u201d<\/p>\n We couldn\u2019t let Moldran go without asking him for some hints and tips for becoming a popular streamer; he does, after all, have a huge following on his gaming channel.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re ready to jump into the action, then\u00a0click here to download partypoker and get started<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n\n
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