Anatoly Filatov: details of the life of a famous poker player

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Russian professional poker player - Anatoly Filatov - although not the most famous person in his country, but, nevertheless, is rapidly achieving success on a global scale. Anatoly Filatov made poker his way of life and definitely brought it to a qualitatively new level.

Successful personality

After talking with a famous player, all journalists note that he is happy to share his thoughts, emotions and hobbies.

In interviews, Anatoly often admits that he is open to the ideas of other people, and considers himself much smarter than most Russians.

In the stories about his Moscow apartment, the player comments on the situation with space prices for housing in the capital of Russia. Renting a small apartment is very expensive. For example, buying 200 m² in some other country, you can pay much less than what he spent on a small (40 m^{2) an apartment in Moscow.}

Filatov achieved significant results for the first time in his first real (notvirtual) tournament in 2012 in Vienna. Then it was Anatoly Filatov who received the second place and a prize amount of 10,000 euros. His biography also contains information that a little later his earnings were replenished by 366,700 euros in prize payments.

His winnings reach $1.6 million.

Frequent visits to the US

Filatov is a frequent visitor to the United States and is used to earning money in poker tournaments in eight different countries.

In his United States travel blogs, he writes extensively about differences in culture and social climate. This point of view is quite unique for someone from a country like Russia, where most people travel to other countries just to relax and have a good time.

Poker in their family is only his passion

In an interview with journalists, the player repeatedly noted that he would like the Russians to stop creating a bad opinion about the inhabitants of Russia abroad, constantly getting drunk and disrespectful to others. He himself admits that he never smoked and does not drink alcohol at all, despite the fact that his parents never forbade him to do so.

His parents always supported him in everything, although they perceived poker only as a hobby.

In his opinion, many Russians drink as much as they bluff, too much. But this is not for him, as he himself claims, since he is married.

His acquaintance with his wife (they were 19 years old) happenedat a time when one of the conferences they were both attending was taking place.

Anatoly Filatov's wife is not a fan of poker. He is very glad that she is not interested in poker, but is studying psychology. He says that he could never marry someone who plays poker, he is absolutely convinced of this. Anatoly Filatov would divorce his wife, according to him, if she began to be interested in poker.

There were rumors that Anatoly Filatov divorced his wife, but in fact this is not so. They often travel together to many of the live tournaments, despite the fact that the wife is not a poker player.

Favorite literature and hobbies

He loves to visit other countries to see how other people live and think. He tells that he was in Asia, Europe and the United States, China. He is fond of books by Lao Tzu (a Chinese philosopher who lived from 604-531 BC), books about Buddhism, and is a big fan of Bruce Lee (read about ten books about him).

Besides poker, the star's hobbies should be added:

• travel;
• acquaintance with the culture and literature of different countries;
• collecting colorful shirts;
• searching around the world for new colorful-rimmed glasses;
• complement every look with such a bright stylish accessory as a colored bow tie.

Attitude towards the legalization of poker

Anatoly Filatov follows the legalization process onlinepoker in Russia, because this game is currently banned. This issue has long been considered in the Kremlin. Legalizing online poker could bring an additional $146 million to the federal budget, but the legislation is still far from reaching the end result of passing the bill.

He mostly prefers to play at PokerStars.

First steps in poker

He studied computer science at Moscow State University, but is not good at programming. During this study in Moscow, Anatoly Filatov became interested in poker.

When he was at university, a friend suggested he watch poker on TV. The players were wearing dark glasses and sweatshirts, which attracted the attention of the future poker star. He really liked to watch the process of the game. He soon began to play for play money himself. He had no idea what he was doing even when he started playing for real money. For him, it was just a lot of fun, and after a while he began to pay attention to learning poker strategies.

He dreamed of playing in the World Series of Poker. After he managed to achieve this, he decided that it was time to start making money.

After losing his massive $4,000 in play for the first time, he continued to watch videos on PokerStrategy and CardRunners and played a lot of poker.

He was only 21 years old when he went to Las Vegas for his first real game. While his results in Las Vegas were not very successful, he wasconfident that he will continue to play and eventually achieve great results in the United States.

Poker gradually became much more significant in his life than just a hobby.

Attitude towards poker

When asked how to characterize the Russian style of play, he replied that when the Russians start bluffing, they can't stop. If the Russians didn't bluff so blindly, they would win every tournament.

He noticed that if he does not sleep well on the eve of the games, eats, then in such an unrested, tired state, he begins to make many mistakes.

The player is convinced that poker is a game for experienced people who are able to spend money and time on it. Poker is not a game for the poor, and it is not on the same level as the usual normal types of employment. This is a game for rich people who want to learn strategy. It's fun for them, and it's kind of a challenge to the competition.

He would like to expand his coaching in the near future.

Filatov's performance over the years allows him to play in the biggest tournaments, but he still manages his investments wisely.

Only time will tell if Anatoly Filatov has what it takes to constantly struggle against the best players in the world, but at least he does not lack money and self-doubt.