Dmitry Lesnoy is a gambling specialist

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Dmitry Lesnoy is a professional poker and many other intellectual and gambling games. This person is the creator of the Marjazh computer program, the former head of the Sports Poker Federation of the Russian Federation, and the author of many books on gambling. In this article, we will describe his brief biography.

Passion for the game

Dmitry Lesnoy was born in Tashkent in 1956. From early childhood, the boy fell in love with cards. He could spend hours watching his father play preference with his friends. But more seriously, Dmitry became interested in this activity when he was a student at Moscow State University (Faculty of Journalism). The young man preferred preference to seminars and lectures.

During his studies, Lesnoy participated in various inter-university tournaments. There Dmitry met with the best preferans. He also played in the billiard academy. In the last Lesnoy, he received three of his nicknames: All-Union Katala, Gusarik and Dima Tashkent. Passion for gambling prevented the young man from finishing his studies. He was expelled in the fourth year for poor progress, although Dmitry receivedGreat. So Lesnoy University graduated only in 1980.

Soon the young man had a new hobby - hypnosis. For more than a year, Dmitry traveled around Central Asia on tour. And then he began to earn a living playing card games. Lesnoy had ups and downs. The biggest loss of the failed journalist was the amount of 100 thousand rubles. At the time, that was a lot of money. The outlook of the future writer changed in 1984. He decided to become an example for his son and "tied up" gambling.

Writing career

Having parted with his passion, Dmitry Lesnoy completely switched to another area. He began to actively write. For some time, the former player worked as a press officer for Rolan Bykov. And after the legalization of gambling in the country, Lesnoy wrote the encyclopedia "Gambling House", the monograph "Russian Preference" and several books from the "Mathematics of Casino Games" series. The latter included more than ten editions. Among them: "Roulette", "Poker", "Blackjack" and others. But Dmitry was not limited to books alone. He wrote the Marriage program, which allowed him to play preference with a computer. This brought him even more popularity. Lesnoy also organized preference and poker tournaments at the Kosmos casino.

Since 2001, the hero of this story has become the publisher of a number of Russian poker magazines: Poker Games, Poker in Russia and Casino Games. In them, Dmitry introduced the reader to professional players and shared his knowledge.

Poker Federation of the Russian Federation

Thanks to many years of experience and merit, Lesnoy received the position of President of the Poker Federation. All his activities were aimed at making this game a sport. This goal was achieved only after six months of active work. From 2007 to 2009 poker was the official sport in Russia. In 2008, another important event took place: Russia became the founder of the International Poker Federation, which unites 55 countries. Until that moment, Dmitry was a member of the board of IFP.

Dmitry Lesnoy's poker school

In it, each player took a special course. After graduation, any beginner with due diligence could become a professional. Dmitry Lesnoy's lessons were held in Moscow for five days. Groups of eight people worked out for six hours a day. The training program was divided into several parts:

• Poker theory: expectation of probability.
• Watch the tutorial video.
• Body language and player psychology.
• Sharp tricks.
• Problems for homework.
• Practice of the game with parsing and analyzing mistakes.

Dmitry Lesnoy's poker school continues to function at the moment. Only now everyone who wants to pass it will have to go not to the capital of the Russian Federation, but to Cyprus.

Interesting facts

• One of the most beautiful episodes of Lesnoy's biography is when he was expelled from Moscow State University for playing a card game. Dmitry still believes that it was the dean's signature that determined himlater life.
• The young man faced several alternatives: to earn a living by skillful play for 1,000 rubles a day or journalism for 100 rubles. a month, pay off the army or go to war in Afghanistan. Dmitry Lesnoy thought for a very short time.
• The paradoxical nature of his nature lies in the fact that even at his sixty years old he still has not given up his first hobby - cards.