Mikhael Inner: From Rap Battles to Poker Fame

Mikhael Inner, a well-known figure in the poker community, has a rich and varied background that includes a range of unique experiences. Inner created a fan site for the movie '8 Mile' starring Eminem, which became top-ranked for all related searches. He also organized email newsletters with erotic stories and earned money from banner ads in these emails.

Inner's talents extend beyond web design and email marketing. He participated in rap battles and recorded rap albums, performing at least five times in clubs. He even created a website featuring a mini-database of girls from his school, photoshopping one of them onto a nude body, which caused issues at a school disco.

Inner's entrepreneurial spirit led him to earn 7,000 rubles for designing a website for a sewing workshop in Pervoural'sk. He was also the basketball champion of Pervoural'sk and once placed fourth in a regional math olympiad, solving only one problem and guessing the rest. Inner spent a lot of time playing the game Ultima Online, writing a rap track about it that had over 50,000 downloads.

Inner's first official job was as a room service waiter at the Atrium Palace hotel in Yekaterinburg. He won his first tournament playing NL25 poker, securing a trip to Oktoberfest in Germany.