Aside from that third place finish, he only has two other live cashes to his name, both under $5,000.Īs for online poker, a player from Qaraghandy, Kazakhstan playing under the screen name “CooLSerGZ” on PokerStars and “CooL_SerGZ” on partypoker has cashed for over $1.235 million in MTT’s during his career.

In May 2016, he came in 3rd in the €50,000 EPT Super High Roller in Monte Carlo for €463,510 – that is where the bulk of his career earnings come from. However, he collected that sum with just three live cashes. Kazakhstan hasn’t had an international poker superstar yet.Ĭurrently, Aidyn Auyezkanov tops their live tournament winnings list on Hendon with $535,966. Due to the new legislation, the number of casinos drastically declined the country – but the remaining ones are now properly licenced and regulated. That is until the aforementioned 2007 introduction of legal gambling zones.

During the Soviet rule, gambling was strictly prohibited as the Communism views it as the idle pastime of the bourgeoisie.Īfter the Soviet rule ended the gambling market became unregulated and started to flourish. They gained independence on December 10th, 1991. Kazakhstan was part of the Soviet Union for most of the 20th Century. However, their neighbor to the North has twice as many, four zones designated for games of chance – at the same time, they also have eight times the Kazakh population. These legal gambling zones are following the Russian model.

To give you a feel for the domestic distances in Kazakhstan, those two cities are about 900 miles far away from each other. In 2007, the Parliament of Kazakhstan passed a gambling law designating two regions in the country for land based casinos – one in the North (around the city of Burabay) and one in the South (around the city of Kapchagay). However, all across that giant land, only two small regions are legally allowed to have casinos. Kazakhstan is a gigantic country – although not in terms of population ( 18.04 million), rather in terms of its land mass (1,052,100 sq miles).

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