There's no point.
Dmitry Lesnoy is the guy who hung around casinos on Earth and shook hands with the owners.
I won’t take it upon myself to evaluate his mental abilities, but he has a ton of experience and stories.
Lesnoy's poker lessons are a separate topic for the maestro:
In 2012, when I went to Kyiv for the first time on the RPT, I prepared using Lesnoy’s video lessons
In 2024, Dmitry began actively pursuing bloggers. He decided to make his presence known on various platforms, but with the same stories and the obligatory "legend" in his video titles:
He has a ton of experience and stories, like any seasoned gambler. The only difference is his circle of acquaintances: Lesnoy's acquaintances included regulars at Moscow casinos and their owners. Therefore, stories of "who lost the most money" seem to him more like stories of "who plays better."
How useful and accurate is this experience? Just listen to LasWARas in his interview, where he says that the odds of hitting a number on roulette are 1 in 35.
What else can we say? This is a complete failure of his "expert" credentials, and it wasn't a slip of the tongue. He's like a young journalist filming a casino commercial, pointing to a European roulette table, and saying, "There's American roulette here."
Then he rolls his eyes and, with a knowing air, tells a story about his wife, who gets a car hired by the casino to take her to the tables. That her "instinct" and endless losses are quantum physics. Maybe it's old age, or maybe he realizes all his knowledge is useless?
His talented acquaintance, programmer Lev Natanson, was a skilled mathematician. He calculated probabilities, wrote Mariage. Dmitry Lesnoy rode on him and his talents for a long time. Then Natanson died in poverty in a Moscow apartment, while Lesnoy, with his money, lives in Cyprus. A banal story about smart and businesslike people.
Lesnoy pushed books and advertisements, collecting money from casinos for his info-gypsyism. He was more of a primitive co-author of casino content and a much greater fan of playing poker all night and socializing with rich people.
But where did the post-Soviet journalist get the big money for the game?
Poker school?
Publishing books to order?
Advertising in the Marriage program?
Casinos often deliberately place such people among wealthy clients; they act as barkers at the market, luring people into long-term gambling. But we don't know about this side of Dmitry's connections with Moscow casino owners, and Lesnoy will never tell the truth.
Their "Sports Poker League" project was a major attempt by two or three Moscow casinos to legislate for everyone in Russia to buy their certificates in one place. It didn't work. Poker was also banned.
When the FIDO network was just beginning to migrate to the web, Lesnoy and his company launched the first casino forum in the CIS. The CGM forum had a long-standing monopoly on the Russian internet. How much money was spent there through affiliate programs? Millions of dollars in commissions, hundreds of thousands in advertising.
If Lesnoy had a stake in CGM, that explains a lot. Money was pouring in until his own moderators opened their own websites and stole the players. Galina Galanova (the forum's last incompetent owner) drove CGM to a clinically dead state.
CGM moderators and their friends long cultivated an image of themselves as "legends" and "experts" in casino games. All sorts of tales were spread throughout the CIS, and those deemed undesirable were banned without further ado. When all the players fled, CGM hired primitive teenagers like TTR and Roulette Angel as section moderators. These people, with zero experience, do more to mislead than answer questions.
An example of an old CGM legend, but essentially an unfortunate gambling addict with a long and murky background, who constantly borrowed and re-borrowed from friends:
If this guy played professionally, it was a long time ago. His story is far removed from the current reality of offline gaming. He's a complete fairy tale about online gaming.
For example, Maxim Katz also spent a long time browsing Moscow casinos and writing on CGM. But he was constantly banned for disrespecting the moderators. Eventually, Katz got tired of losing money and became a politician.
Another "legend" and "expert" in the gambling business.