Former StarCraft: Brood War player, Markus Gonsalves, is now the 2020 World Poker Tour (WPT) Gardens Poker Champion!
Gonsalves – formerly known as “Proct” during his StarCraft: Brood War days, and currently known as “LURPED” in online poker – was a well-known American StarCraft player who invented “The Stove,” which was described by JonnyCosMo in 2006 as a “type of rush against a terran opponent where you go scouts first, then switch to DT, then mass arbiters and stasis them.” As a fellow Protoss player, I used to be a fan of “The Stove,” as it worked great against low level Terran players on Lost Temple.
On March 14, 2021, Gonsalves went into his heads-up match against Tuan Phan with a 5-1 chip lead, but the match lasted over 90 hands due to the third hand they played, which saw Phan winning a coin flip. According to WorldPokerTour.com, Phan...
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