Russian Poker Tour Minsk 2016 Live Sponsorship Review

The VIP-Grinders Live Sponsorship

We from VIP-Grinders offer our valued members great bonuses via our Rewards VIP Program. One of those is the chance to get sponsored for a live tournament of your own choice!

If you are a successful online player, who would like to leave a mark on the live tournament circuit, please apply here.

Terms and Conditions:

• Only members holding Platinum VIP level or above for at least three consecutive months are entitled to apply for a sponsorship.
• You can request a sponsorship every three months. It has to be sent at least four weeks prior to the start of the event.
• Our budget for this promotion is limited and sponsorships are given on a first come, first serve basis.

Biographies of our two sponsored players

Natan Chauskin

Natan Chauskin is one of the rising stars of the Belarussian poker scene. After crushing online tournaments for quite a while, Natan decided to take a shot at local live tournaments. It should soon pay off as he won his second big live tournament, a $ 360 No-Limit Hold’em at the 2015 Belarus Poker Tour in Minsk for $8,140.

Natan Causkin won the IPT Malta 2015 for $169,663.

Several decent results followed, so he decided to travel to the EPT Barcelona and Malta. At the latter he took down the IPT Malta Main Event for against 947 players for $169,663! Within two years Natan won $245,701 in live tournaments alone, which earns him a spot in the Top 20 of the Belarussian All Time Money List.

Mikalai Vaskaboinikau

Is good friends with Natan and also one of the best tournament players in Belarus. Mikalai has much more experience and is something like a mentor for Natan. The two are travelling together to big live tournaments in Russia and Europe.

Mikalai Vaskaboinikau took third in the €10,000 High Roller at the EPT Malta 2015.

It so happened, that he also made the biggest cash of his career at the EPT Malta 2015. In a star-studded field of the €10,000 High Roller, Vaskaboinikau not only made the final table, but also the Top 3 before he busted to the later winner Byron Kaverman. Mikali has already amassed $323,581 in live winnings.

The Russian Poker Tour Minsk 2016

The Russian Poker Tour (RPT) was founded in 2009. It is the biggest poker tour in Eastern Europe and hosts tournaments in different countries. Over the years the RPT has played out a total prize pool of 30 million dollars.

The last stop took place in the Belarusian capital Minsk and the our two VIP-Grinders sponsored players, played all the big tournaments and even made a final table.

Here are the pictures from the Russian Poker Tour Minsk 2016:

After the tournament Natan and Mikalai summed up their experience:

“We, Natan Chauskin and Mikalai Vaskaboinikau got sponsored by VIP-Grinders for the Russian Poker Tour Minsk (June 14th – 23rd 2016) and have been playing all main events. I (Mikalai) was running really hot in the PLO event and was a big chipleader at the final table, but finished “only” 4th, after getting unlucky. Next big tournament for us will be the EPT Barcelona! We really apprecciate the live sponsorship deal we made with VIP-Grinders and can recommend the offer to other pros looking for live sponsorships.”

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Andrew Burnett

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