Who is deldar182?

I just saw this guy playing on PS, at 100/200 NL. Then my mind triggered.
This is the ID of one of the top International Scrabble players. I know, because I used to play semi-competitively, and I met him at the World Youth Scrabble Championships. He was 18 at the time, which makes him 20 right now, I think. The PS location is indeed where he lives (melbourne), and the screenname he used for Scrabble was exactly the same.

So either:
A) It's him
B) Someone played Scrabble a long time ago, found this name (Must've been #1 from what I recall), and took his ID for some reason.

As I find B really unlikely, I have to believe A for now.

Does anybody know who this guy is?

I also found an update on the Aussie Millions with a dude named David E Eldar. This is so sick if it's actually him- anybody know if he's actually a good player or not? I'm kind of ignorant towards the high stakes that seem a tier below full out nosebleeds.

hes a good player with solid work ethic who grinds tons. he hasnt been playing poker for long, like a year iirc and made his way to the top stakes on stars really quickly and grinds long hours and plays a lot. probably puts in the most hands at 25/50 nowadays out of all the regs

A year would definitely fit that timeline. He was going into his undergrad when I met him, I wonder if he's still in school (assuming this is him). Does he have time for class with the hours he plays?

he was talking with someone yesterday about scrabble so it's probably him

yes it is him lol

Sick. Probably doesn't remember me though. Maybe I should drop him a line and be like "sup" I heard you're rich"

On January 22 2009 11:53 Ket wrote: hes a good player with solid work ethic who grinds tons. he hasnt been playing poker for long, like a year iirc and made his way to the top stakes on stars really quickly and grinds long hours and plays a lot. probably puts in the most hands at 25/50 nowadays out of all the regs

yeah he was a reg in the 5/10 games just a few months ago and now I see him play 100/200. pretty sick level of dedication.

IM HIS FRIEND GUYS SRSLY!

but yeh, thats preety much him, he used to be aus scrabble champ (not sure if he still plays), and he was in the aussie millions.

"Hey remember me? I met you at the World Youth Scrabble Championships! I heard your rich. Steak me?"

On January 22 2009 13:27 JonnyCosMo wrote: "Hey remember me? I met you at the World Youth Scrabble Championships! I heard your rich. Steak me?"

lollllllllll

Most complacent guy I've ever met tbh, seemed like he was bored of Scrabble when he was there (to be fair he was like 10x better than the next kid there). But he didn't really talk to anybody, even people from his nation.

I'm glad he found poker. He works really hard and probably realized, like me, that Scrabble is shit for pay. If you're gonna work hard, may as well get paid for it. $25k for a world championship once a year? Yeah fuck that. No idea if he still plays, though. All that memory of words and such is probably still encased in his mind- those damn words never go away.

I even have a pamphlet as a souvenir of the tournament.

Favourite word: DAVIDIA (for obvious reasons).

lololol

Steak me like Stake me, or Steak me like Fuck me?

he used to play 2/4 a few months ago

I just couldn't believe it, as he expressed no interest in poker when I met him. I just wanted to know if someone was randomly using his ID or if it really was him. All the info I know is about David Eldar. I didn't know if he was the one piloting the account

competitive scrabble. I loled

On January 22 2009 15:42 RaSZi wrote: funny, u make a thread 'who is....?' and then reply ur own question by busting out all this info nobody knows =]

haha exactly what I thought.

Very cool to know though

Yeah that's def him. I'm still a little mindblown.

he looks 12

he's got an orange glow

Hes been Tangoed

wtf is scrabble

dictionary gives smth like "word lotto"- still wtf ;o

introduce him to starcraft. that'll fuck up his head for sure

On January 22 2009 16:45 Chewits wrote: Hes been Tangoed

rofl.

On January 22 2009 17:05 anon wrote: dictionary gives smth like "word lotto"- still wtf ;o

Board game. You start at the middle and make a word with 7 letters you get or something. Every next word has to be connected to the words already on the board. Some letters are worth more than others because they get used less. On the board there's a big roster. Every square you can put one letter. The idea is that you have to make words with your letters. If you can't make a word you take 1 letter from the remaining letters (you take it blindly). There are multipliers on the board. Like if you get a Z (which is worth like 6 points, while an E is only worth 1) you gain a lot of points fast. There's 2x multiplier and up to 4x.

At least that's what I think they're talking about haha.

There are some cases which make your word total point multiplier to 3x max.
Some that only count your letter point which is 3x max aswell.
I've never heard about getting 1 additionnal letter when we couldn't find a word, maybe rules differs with the country. Afaik, you must take all your letters in your "hand" and put them in a bag to randomize and get 7 (or 8 ? i don't remember) new letters.

It's really interesting how so any top level poker players were good/great at some other (seemingly unrelated) game before: Scrabble, Chess, Starcraft, Backgammon, Bridge...

On January 22 2009 20:48 Sicks Macks wrote: It's really interesting how so any top level poker players were good/great at some other (seemingly unrelated) game before: Scrabble, Chess, Starcraft, Backgammon, Bridge...

Usually because people who have the drive to be good at one thing, when they dedicate themselves to something else, will have the same drive and therefor become top level at that.

in french a Z is 10 pts !!!

On January 22 2009 22:27 all_in_4tw wrote: in french a Z is 10 pts !!!

in English a Z is 10 points too. It's only 1 in italian IIRC.

I bet an X is 0 points in chinese.

1v1 scrabble?

On January 22 2009 23:21 zulu_nation8 wrote: 1v1 bananagrams?

fyp

this is what u call talent + hardwork = god mode

deldar is the man... he also runs sick good .

On January 22 2009 20:48 Sicks Macks wrote: It's really interesting how so any top level poker players were good/great at some other (seemingly unrelated) game before: Scrabble, Chess, Starcraft, Backgammon, Bridge...

any top level guy at ANYTHING is prolly gonna be top level or very very good at a lot of other things

deldar182

On January 22 2009 20:48 Sicks Macks wrote: It's really interesting how so any top level poker players were good/great at some other (seemingly unrelated) game before: Scrabble, Chess, Starcraft, Backgammon, Bridge...

MAGIC THE GATHERING !!!

best 12 yr old out there

http://www.pokernews.com/news/2009/08...vealed-legends-update-and-an-7116.htm

Deldar is POKERBLUFFS

there was an interesting chat on PS 100/200$ few days ago

Bullitos was quite angry that Deldar played him few HU on FTP and didnt say it was him
other guy (i think it was kingodcards but not sure) said that in his opinion he didnt have to tell him that he is who he is bcos thats his only account on FTP

what you think ?
when you change ipoker skin do you tell other regs that you did it ?

Of course not, the same way we dont tell them our ranges and frequencies... anyway bullitos stinks and had no business playing that high anyways, fuck him.

while I dont know of the 'honor' or w/e that may be unique to high stakes, as long as he's not doing anything against regulations (which he's obv not) then I don't see anything wrong at all.

You want every edge you can get, so why not use it??

On January 22 2009 16:18 Minion wrote:

wtf, wasnt that nutsinho's PS avatar?

On August 26 2009 08:37 ConquistadoR wrote: Show nested quote + On January 22 2009 16:18 Minion wrote: wtf, wasnt that nutsinho's PS avatar?

Yeah, he did that to annoy Deldar. Deldar responded by making nutsinho his avatar.

Nice bump. Excuse me as I hate my NL25 life again.

On January 22 2009 20:48 Sicks Macks wrote: It's really interesting how so any top level poker players were good/great at some other (seemingly unrelated) game before: Scrabble, Chess, Starcraft, Backgammon, Bridge...

chess?

what the fuck is scrabble?

On August 26 2009 19:47 Baal wrote: Show nested quote + On January 22 2009 20:48 Sicks Macks wrote: It's really interesting how so any top level poker players were good/great at some other (seemingly unrelated) game before: Scrabble, Chess, Starcraft, Backgammon, Bridge... chess?

Dan Harrington is chess master and even wrote a book (after that he was crushing backgammon and (guess what) wrote a book - eventually he crossed over to poker (and wrote books ldo)). But he's the only one I can think of (chess).

On August 26 2009 19:47 Baal wrote: Show nested quote + On January 22 2009 20:48 Sicks Macks wrote: It's really interesting how so any top level poker players were good/great at some other (seemingly unrelated) game before: Scrabble, Chess, Starcraft, Backgammon, Bridge... chess?

i always had the impression that out of those, chess had the largest number of crossover players to poker...could be wrong though.

Well it makes absolute sense, i think we dont see many and the few we see are old farts who suck at poker for nowadays standards like the formentioned Dan Harrington because Chess is not a game that famous for young people and young people are just destroying poker because old people with careers dont have the time and learning abilities young ones do.

theres this crazy cash game player that plays at wynn a lot named Drasko who is the FUKIN MAN but is a sick sick sick chess player

he will be the one to lead the chessers

On August 26 2009 20:05 Baal wrote: Well it makes absolute sense, i think we dont see many and the few we see are old farts who suck at poker for nowadays standards like the formentioned Dan Harrington because Chess is not a game that famous for young people and young people are just destroying poker because old people with careers dont have the time and learning abilities young ones do.

I seem to recall some 2+2 wells that mentioned competitive chess as a starting point. Can't remember who though.

On August 26 2009 22:09 FrinkX wrote: theres this crazy cash game player that plays at wynn a lot named Drasko who is the FUKIN MAN but is a sick sick sick chess player he will be the one to lead the chessers

HAHAHA fucking drasko life

that guy is sw33t

deldar is a sicko.

lol baal just because you haven't heard of them doesn't mean they don't exist. there's probably lots of people who know elky, rekrul etc. as poker players who don't know about their starcraft background. i don't even care about chess really but you're seriously underestimating its popularity.

On August 27 2009 03:22 bigredhoss wrote: lol baal just because you haven't heard of them doesn't mean they don't exist. there's probably lots of people who know elky, rekrul etc. as poker players who don't know about their starcraft background. i don't even care about chess really but you're seriously underestimating its popularity.

lol when did i say they didnt exist at all? it makes a lot of sense to switch from chess to poker, and its the most famous listed game however it seems its not so common as it "should" be.

On August 27 2009 04:31 Baal wrote: Show nested quote + On August 27 2009 03:22 bigredhoss wrote: lol baal just because you haven't heard of them doesn't mean they don't exist. there's probably lots of people who know elky, rekrul etc. as poker players who don't know about their starcraft background. i don't even care about chess really but you're seriously underestimating its popularity. lol when did i say they didnt exist at all? it makes a lot of sense to switch from chess to poker, and its the most famous listed game however it seems its not so common as it "should" be.

Chess

Also Ylon Schwartz...though I dunno if he's any good...

oh baal you silly goose, my point was that it doesn't seem like there's as many as there should be to you because you're not part of the chess "community", just like someone who's not part of the starcraft community may not be aware of the starcraft players turned poker players.

TRIPLE WORD SCORE

On August 26 2009 19:51 longple wrote: what the fuck is scrabble?

scrabble = Alfapet

deldar owns my soul

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Eldar

New Scrabble world champion owes it all to 'carrels': Word meaning a cubicle desk helps Australian player to take the title

That's kind of cool :0

deldar hsdb so solid.