When he got his start in poker in 2015 playing in Norway's local underground poker clubs, Kayhan Mokri remembers watching top pros like Timothy Adams and Nick Petrangelo compete at the highest stakes on the televised European Poker Tour (EPT) and elsewhere. Eight years later, the 28-year-old, now a full-time professional, finds himself sitting across the table from those very same players.
“I watched these guys on TV a way long time ago," recalled Mokri. "Like Steve O’Dwyer, for example, he’s been in the game for like forever and suddenly I’m playing with him every day and joking around with him.