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Ivan Demidov is humble and modest when it comes to talking about his professional poker career and this Russian with roots in Moscov prefers to describe himself as ‘a semi-professional’ brushing aside any claims for being a poker star.

It was his college studies of Mathematics that helped Ivan play better poker, a game that he picked up in college and soon after, started playing on various websites. He changed over from online poker to participating in live tournaments though he revealed in various media interactions that this was a tough move for him considering the variables involved in both types of competitive gaming scenarios are dimensionally so different from each other that it is mind-boggling.

However, since Ivan Demidov at 27 years proved his presence at the final table of the WSOP main event of 2008 was a show of strength in his confident poker gaming, the transition from online to live tournaments doesn’t seem to appear all that difficult for this youthful ‘November Nine’ entrant. Ivan made it to the heads-up level with Peter Eastgate, though he made it only to second place, but his winnings of $5,809,595 must have provided good solace to his missing first place, feel fans of his style.

In the WSOP European chapter held in London the same year, Ivan secured a third place, which gave him the distinction of being the only player in poker history to have made it to both Main event final tables.

So far, Ivan has earned 10 cash wins in his career with total career winnings in the range of $6,598,475! He has only finished once but with a FullTilPoker position of 337, Ivan expects to take his four-year long poker career much ahead of his dreams. His first cash win came during a live game in 2006 where he reached the final table of a Pot Limit Omaha poker event hosted by the Korona Russian Poker Championship. Though at the time he secured 5th place in the finish, perhaps this was the sign he was looking for to compete in many more live tournaments. And so, Ivan participated in the 2007 No Limit tournament (a $1000 program) hosted as part of the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic event and came up two notches – at 3rd place.

Thereafter, there was a lull in Demidov’s poker carer as far as top 10 finishes are concerned because he secured 11th position during the WSOP Event # 44 in the $1000 session for a Rebuy No-Limit Holdem tournament, bagging $39,854 and still dreaming of bigger things to come.

He entered the WSOP Main Event and worked on resolutely building his chip stack daily and continued to play a tight game till the momentous Day 7 of the event where he chipped up a cool 24.4 Million that secured his entry into “November Nine” right behind Dennis Phillips who beat Ivan to the final table by ranking one above him.

Demidov declared his wish to get a variety in his tournaments experiences and expressed a desire to work with his friend and poker pro Alexander Kostritsyn in a bid to improve his poker skills – when he’s not pursuing his other favorite leisure sports: scuba diving and skiing!!