TrueTeller at Triton, Late for Wedding Because of Poker, & More From Social Media
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Timofey Kuznetsov's arrival at the Triton series in Jeju caused a bit of surprise, and not just for the spectators.
"My nemesis Trueteller didn’t bring his pet bear 🐻 to the $200k Invitational Triton," said series regular Randy Liu.
Randy often recalls a now-legendary conversation that took place back in 2012 at a $50/$100 table. That session became one of the most memorable events in Nanonoko's career.
In the midst of the action, Timofey wrote in the chat that he needed a break, Randy did not want to let him go, in response, Truteller reported that a bear was running around his house.
• Trueteller: I need a break • Trueteller: Probably 30 minutes • nanonoko: Uh, we play an hour then we stop? • Trueteller: I really need a pause now • nanonoko: We play, I don’t want to wait 30 minutes • Trueteller: A bear is running around my house • nanonoko: lol • Trueteller: How could I play? • nanonoko: What do you mean by bear • nanonoko: a dog? • Trueteller: a brown bear • Trueteller: I live in Russia • nanonoko: Can you own bears there? • Trueteller: actually no • nanonoko: lol
The session was unsuccessful for Timofey, but it gave the poker world a bear meme. The topic was discussed at high stakes for several days.
YoH Viral hopped in:
Since then, the two players' careers have taken different paths.
Nanonoko quit the game long ago and found himself as a commentator, while Timofey hasn't played poker seriously for several years, but for different reasons. He attended Triton for the first time since 2019. He tried to arrange a match with Ossi Ketola, but it didn't work out. After that, he played an invitational tournament (he made two entries), and spent the rest of his time playing high-stakes cash games.
Besides Timofey, Wiktor Malinowski, Elton Tsang, Kayhan Mokri, and Wang Ye played.
Day of my first wedding was a memorable one, not for the obvious reasons.
Check into the venue that morning. Fancy hotel. Chill in the room. Poolside. Cocktails. Kill some time. No idea how people do this btw. Just sit around and do nothing. Anyway, by afternoon i make my way to the grooms suite. Laptop out. Browsing shit. Online shopping. Whatever.
While im at it, why not click open the iPoker lobbies. Just to see whats up. Not much. 50/100 and 100/200 heads up seats are open. Ceremony is at 6:30. Got like 3 hours. Might as well sit and wait. Maybe we get some action.
4:30, random account sits me at 100/200. Never seen the name before. Never saw it again after that day either. Ok. Quickie. Clinical. In and out. Early signs are good. Bet sizings. Timings. Clearly not a pro. I can feel it. A sizeable wedding donation might be on the cards.
I go up like 20k. Then he comes back. Back and forth for a while. Door opens. My brother/best man walks in. Now im tense as fuck. Time is working against me, and im stuck. 5:15, more friends start showing up in the suite while im tilting off. Im playing as volatile as humanly possible now. Just get the money in. Need this to end pronto. But you dont leave a fish sitting at your table with money. Thats the job. Cocktail starts at 6. I tell my brother, come check on me around 6:20. If im still playing, we may have to delay the ceremony.
Obvs, 6:20 comes. Still playing. Tell him, push it. Say theres an issue with my tux, and the tailor is working on it. Bride furious. Guests wondering what the fuck is going on.
I finally bust the guy around 7:30. Close laptop. And then the "I do."
No wonder that marriage didnt last.
"So many brides make wedding day about them," someone replied to the post. "Shoutout to the outliers that take one back for the boys."
"Been there," said Feruell. "You don't quit fish at 100-200 no matter what."
Yes such an easy call at that point. The pressure, the guilt and embarrassment was still massive though.
"I was grinding on Christmas Eve," Feruell remembered. "250–500 AOF game. Fuck that, I’m not leaving even if Santa himself were banging on my door."
While many regulars were sweating it out in Jeju, Dan Smith was enjoying women's tennis at the US Open.
"Shout out to Dan, living his best life out there in NYC," Brian Meacon said after seeing a familiar face on the broadcast.
The name “Rampage” originated long before 2018. It spawned in 2009 as I ventured into my very first attempt at content creation. As a 12 year old, I was obsessed with Call of Duty and needed a username to both join a clan and attempt making content about the gameplay. This started my journey into trying and failing over 20 different YouTube channels/ideas between 2009 and 2018 until I discovered the poker niche.
I tell this story to set context – it’s extremely easy to look at someone with X number of followers on social media and think everything portrayed like sunshine and rainbows. When you look at all the biggest creators in the world today, everyone started with the same number; zero. The common denominator that sets them apart is consistency, dedication, and a delusional amount of self confidence. I’m not here to compare myself to the top creators but I did put in the time, effort, and work to get to nearly 400,000 subscribers on Youtube. This was by no means an overnight success story, especially competing in a small market niche space like poker. But the reel above shows my subscriber count in 2018, when in reality my journey started in 2009 recording videos with a flip phone that was propped up in a frisbee disc between 2 remote controllers. Talk about bootstrapping.
My start with poker content started like a lightning in a bottle, after all my trial and errors with YouTube – I uploaded my very first poker vlog, my best half assed attempt to display a semblance of knowledge about the game even though it was my 3rd time every playing. This was classic 101 larping. But I recall within 24 hours of the upload on YouTube, this video generated over 1,000 views and I FREAKED. This was an unbelievable number that I’ve never seen before in any of my previous content ventures. Immediately all indicators pointed towards poker, there was clearly something special here. And even though I knew nothing about the game, I was going to document the entire journey and used poker as a way to create content.
Martin Zamani, who had a successful World Series, continues to make money online. He recently won the Sunday Phil's Thrill for $10,000.
The tournament was a big one, in terms of names. Martin defeated Linus Loeliger heads-up. Alexey "avr0ra" Borovkov was eliminated in fifth place, knocked out by Kristen Foxen, who finished fourth.
"Sunday was a positive day, so I can't complain, but Phil's tournament was seriously messed up," Avr0ra wrote after his elimination, "They shortened the time, and the average stack was 25bb—it was already after the end of the lay-up. I doubt I'll play it again with the current structure. I'll check out the XP tournament on Coin next week instead.
Thanks for watching and supporting. I made one pretty serious mistake today (a bad squeeze shove with KDo to 34bb), but overall, I'm going to bed without shame. There were some good hands, too."
That same day, Martin won the $2,650 Mini Phil's Thrill PLO event.
ACR is still one of the leading tournament poker sites in 2026. If you're unsure, just remember how many pros play there.
I’m not sure if people realize how special this is. Different netwerk, but the same guys battling it out at the highest stakes.
The difference?
We added a card and the stakes are multiples of what they have been before. After my most successful month of my poker career I’m at yet another standoff with Lady Luck. Half a million under EV, but presented with a chance to turn things around for this month:
An organized game with a couple of the usual suspects: Yolof1, NV22, TheBlez, Giselle54 and yours truly.
Streamed live, cards up, 3 tabels with a $40k buy-in: PLO4, PLO5 and PLO6. We are starting in 6 hours!
Has a no blind increase MTT ever been proposed? Start with 5bb each, 200 player cap. Starts off as a turbo crapshoot, if you get deep you have lots of play. HU is a grueling deep stacked technical affair. No chops allowed.
Theoretically you could increase the blinds once when ITM & once more 4 handed or so, if you didn’t want the insane cash-game style finish, but the format accomplishes a few things
– very little time commitment if you don’t go deep – more play when it matters more
"I have done these with no clock and the blinds increase only when players are eliminated," Matt Savage recalled. "We’ve done it at 30/40/50 BB to start.
It has short registration and play at the end when it matters. I called it “Savage Average” and people that played it loved everything but the name."
Commenters recalled that PokerStars had long hosted sit-and-go tournaments without blind increases. Players often registered for them out of carelessness, and regulars took advantage of this. We've covered these tournaments in detail.
Patrick Leonard made the correct call on the river with J-high in the $530 WCOOP:
– Do you prefer a big hero call or a big bluff? This is my favourite kind of hand I think 😎😎
Patrick three-bet preflop and double-barreled on the flop and turn, and check-called a 50-blind bet into a 99-blind pot on the river.
“If you did that to me, you’d make me quit poker for good,” YoHViral admitted.
