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Alex Dalaklis-TexasLimitKing

Alexandros Dalaklis is a young professional poker player. He is greek but he was born in Stockholm Sweden 1986. He grew up with two older brothers and one younger sister. He is very close to his family and they are very important to him.

Alex started to play poker 3 years ago when he still was in school. He took the decision to quit school when he realized that he was very good in playing poker, especially texas limit hold´em. He started to play on the lowest levels and worked his way up to highest levels on-line, 1000/2000 were he dominated the game. He had a very intense period and played against the biggest names like Phil Ivey, David Benyamine and Dustin Wolff and had big winnings against almost all of them. Alex decided to then take a break and focus on his business one of his new born interest.

Alex plans for the future is to spend more time in Greece where he has bought an house in Thessaloniki. He has also big plans in opening an luxury hotel with his two older brothers Aggelos and Jannis. In the near time Alex is going to participate in some live poker tournaments and represent AsteriaPoker, a collaboration he is very happy to be a part of.

Why did you start play poker?

We played a lot of cards in family when I grew up but also other different games like chess, Chinese chess and family games. I was pretty good in chess and won a tournament when I was in middle school. I still like the game but its very slow. I realized that I had a good brain for mathematics and that I understood the logic. When I was in the second year in high school we went to England as a part of the education and it was there I saw the tv-show World Poker Tour for the first time and wanted to try. When I got back home to Sweden I became member on Pacific Poker, they had an offer that you could play for 20 without making a deposit. And that's the way I started to play poker.

Your advice to other players?

Play poker when you are calm and focused, you develop faster and you dont have to put to many unnecessary hours. Exercise and sleep as much as you need, this helps your way to play more than anything.

What do you see yourself doing in 10 years from now?