Chess World Champion Magnus Carlsen Among Final 39 in Norwegian Poker Championship 2022

We’re seeing Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen in a different environment these days than we’re used to seeing him, as he’s playing in Norwegian Poker Championship 2022 (Norgesmesterskapet Poker 2022).

Five-time World Chess Champion is participating in NL Hold’em Main Event with a buy-in of €880 and he is among final 39 that qualified for Day 4 out of 1050 players that entered the event.

Magnus is currently sitting 21^st in chips with a 2.3 million stack, while leader Stian Nǿstdahl has 5.8 million in chips. He also ran a successful bluff against John Erik Dagslott. Watch the hand down below.

Credit for the video u/SillyDragonfly7989 on reddit

Play continues today and players will play down to the final table that will be played on Sunday. How far do you think no. 1 chess player can go?

Chess Poker Boom

There’s quite a poker boom going on among chess players in the last few years. Probably the best chess-poker player right now is Estonian chess grandmaster Ottomar Ladva, who recorded many impressive poker wins lately.

Last year he turned $530 into a $525,089 win at partypoker’s MILLIONS Online, beating the final table of super pros like Justin Bonomo, Jason Koon and such, won GG’s Super High Roller for $446,446 during GG’s Spring Festival and Super MILLION$ event for $325,957 payday.

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