Who is TTR?
Andrey “TTR” Nikolaev is one of the most famous gambling activists and ludomaniacs worldwide, most popular in Russia and ex-USSR countries. Our days he is mostly known as a blogger, streamer and owner of the casino network which includes TTR, Surf and DLX casinos.
In the early 2000s, being a 17-year-old boy, TTR became interested in poker. Working as developer at Motorola Company, Andrey was losing all his earnings playing poker. Growing debts needed bigger earnings.
In short time TTR became almost the first poker affiliates in the country with a sensible, actively advertised website. Later, many well-known intermediaries followed his example. But when the guy first came into the business (about 2005-2006), many successful regulars played under his links, and TTR’s earnings were around $20,000 – $30,000 a month.
After losing a lot of money in poker, Andrey migrated to the casino, where he took a profitable niche for himself. Now the Russian positions himself as an affiliate and casino owner, for whom playing slots is just a hobby. By the way, TTR was the first who started casino streaming. That time it were just youtube videos called “Casino VODS” as an analogy for poker VODS.
TTR always actively wrote on the forum and kept a blog, where he openly expressed his thoughts on various topics, this is what many people in society remember him for. Up to this day he has own blog on the subject.
Now TTR lives in Portugal owing several houses there and in Italy. He likes cars (owns about 10 of them including Lamborghini), skating, surfing and enjoys his luxury life. You may follow him on Instagram.
Interesting facts about Andrey “TTR”:
- Andrey was born and lived in Saint Petersburg, Russia;
- He was a professional WarCraft 3 player;
- Before gambling he worked as a head of development at Motorola;
- Except gambling projects TTR started the Neverfold poker forum, the MD Forum mobile device forum and the TTRCoin cryptocurrency news portal;
- He doesn’t believe in tactics and schemes to beat slots;
- TTR has a pet crow “Karich”
- On a stream with Filatov in early 2017, TTR said that he once went to Portugal with a girl for 3 months, since it was cheap to live here. And one of the main reasons why they did not return to Russia as planned is the imposition of sanctions. According to Andrey, on the way home they could have just taken away the birds, which they imported into the country without any problems;
- In his youth TTR loaned $10,000 dreaming of buying a car, but when he realized that this money is not enough for a car that he really wants, Andrey threw $2,000 in an online casino. He even managed to raise the bankroll to $20,000, but as a result he lost everything.
And this is not all interesting facts about Andrey «TTR».