On November 20, a win in the €12,500 Guaranteed Rebuy on 32Red for $5,200 gave the Ukraine’s gnat777(pictured) his third online poker Triple Crown. He is up to nearly $1.25 million in tracked cashes in his PocketFives profile and is a sponsored pro of MacroPoker. If you’ve never heard of the latter, MacroPoker is a “unique web-based platform offering poker education and a place for all poker players to hear and be heard by others. You can search for new friends, keep track of the news, communicate, share your experiences, and get constructive feedback.”

“I am really glad that I won a Triple Crown once again,” gnat777 told PocketFives in an exclusive interview. “It probably proves that I count for something.” Besides the aforementioned MTT on 32Red, the two other legs of his latest Triple Crown were the Titan Poker $15,000 Guaranteed Rebuyand a $109 tournament on 888 Poker.

How does winning a third Triple Crown compare to the first two? Has the luster worn off or is the feat still as exciting as ever? Our interview subject explained, “It’s hard to say. When I won a Triple Crown for the first time, it was really great. Everybody congratulated me and they were happy for me. Now, there is not any excitement, but whatever accomplishments I can get are nice.”

We’ve had PocketFives members record a string of Triple Crowns since Full Tilt Pokerre-launched on November 6 under its new ownership, PokerStars. We asked gnat777 for his take on the new Full Tilt now that he has had a chance to play there: “I had a decent sum of money there. The truth is, though, I can’t win there yet. For my next Triple Crown, I will win a tournament on Full Tilt.” You’ll note that no Full Tilt tournaments made up his latest claim to fame.

His largest tracked cash to date was worth $38,000 and came in early 2011 in the $109 No Limit Hold’em Cubed on PokerStars. He bested a field of 823 entrants en route to victory in that tournament and he now has a total of 1,317 tracked in the money finishes.

We asked gnat777 what hobbies he enjoys outside of the game he has excelled at: “I do a lot of physical activities. I play squashand mini football twice a week.” In case you’re wondering, mini football is similar to indoor soccer and uses a smaller ball.

Let’s get back to MacroPoker. You might have seen the site’s ads on PocketFives, It features a social network, online poker stats, odds calculator that can estimate call profitability against entire hand ranges, hand replayer, and more. A backing and staking system are on the way.

gnat777 works with MacroPoker and told us, “MacroPoker.com is a new website that is offering some awesome statistics tools for poker players. Moreover, the whole website is based on a social network platform where players can easily post their updates, photos, and hands and then communicate with each other. There’s much more to come and the website is developing very steadily.” Visit MacroPoker.com to learn more about the site.

The folks at MacroPoker approached gnat777 about a sponsorship, which he said he “couldn’t resist.” On what he does specifically for the site, the Ukraine pokercommunity member told us, “You can find me posting all of my recent updates there and users can add me as a friend through the social network. I represent the website at live tournaments and other events and I’m involved in some internal projects they have. For example, MacroPoker launched the new poker-show ‘The Big Hunt’ with popular Russian soccer commentator Kirill Dementyev and model Maria Estrella as participants. They are taking the first steps in their poker careers and I was chosen to coach Dementyev. Soon, everyone will have a chance to play with both of them in a special tournament with bounties on their heads.”

In 2013, you’ll see gnat777 storm Las Vegas for the annual World Series of Poker. Next year will be his third at the WSOP and he said a bracelet is his goal. Other than the prestige of claiming a bracelet, gnat777 said, “It’s a lot of money” when asked why getting one was so important. Good call.

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