EPT Open Sochi: Alexander Pygusov Reflects on His Poker Career

The EPT Open Sochi tournament started on the previous Friday. In the first multi-day tournament, participants made 75 entries for a prize pool of ₽70,000. The final table featured a star-studded lineup, with Alexander Pygusov and Anatoly Zyrin reaching the heads-up stage.

Alexander Pygusov began his poker career around 2008-2009 playing $1/$2 in Metelitsa. He started playing NL25 6-max and initially lost money, but improved after reading Ryan Fee's book. Pygusov transitioned to heads-up tables on PartyPoker and quickly progressed from NL100 to NL1k.

Pygusov mentioned that the rise of solvers and bots made heads-up games less profitable. He lost a significant amount of money to bots and advanced players, which led him to reconsider his strategy. Pygusov plans to try 6-max cash games and possibly spin games if heads-up games do not work out.