The three Russian founders of 1xBet, Roman Semiokhin, Sergey Karshkov and Dmitry Kazorin, are all from the city of Brjansk, some 370 kilometres west of Moscow, although all three currently live in Cyprus.

The bottom line is that it is not that hard to make money on PokerStars. In fact, you can make a lot of money if you play the right way. This mostly boils down to an exploitative TAG strategy like I teach in the book and the video course. But the mental game is also equally important.