Chorny

“Chorny pauk—like a bloodthirsty black spider,” reads Robert from a Pravda on the kitchen table, “the U.S. is always on the lookout for new opportunities to strangle socialism and catapult the world back to the dark, retrograde, pre-revolutionary past.”

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

“Chorny pauk—like a bloodthirsty black spider,” reads Robert from a Pravda on the kitchen table, “the U.S. is always on the lookout for new opportunities to strangle socialism and catapult the world back to the dark, retrograde, pre-revolutionary past.”

A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova 2010

This win caps off an already sweet year for Chorny, who qualified for the event through Pokerstars, becoming yet another of the many great Internet poker stories.

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A business student, Chorny won a World Poker Open pot limit Omaha event and finished 13th in the Pokerstars EPT Caribbean Adventure.

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Michael Martin was eliminated in 5th place by Chorny.

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Villemure, who played great despite fighting off a fever and stomach problems the last two days of the tournament, had a Queen high straight, but Chorny made a King high straight and send him packing with $1,130,487.

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In the end, it was Chorny, the chip leader going into the final day, and Denes Kalo, who found himself in fifth going into the last day.

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Chorny eliminated his fellow Canadian Maxime Villemure in 4th place.

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Isaac Baron, whom many felt was the tournament favorite, went all in with A-Q on the 215th hand but lost to Chorny and ended up pocketing $931,268.

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At any rate, I have named my new girlfriend Old Chorny or Старый Чёрный chorny means black in Russian because she is as black as JJ Walker at midnight.

To Ukraine and Back Pauly V. 2007