Ion Oncescu is already a big name within a sport that few people understand and now he accepted a new challenge. And what could be more appropriate then another sport that again few people understand?

 Ion, how did this original collaboration with 45Bet was born?

I have received a proposal and accepted it with a lot of curiosity and pleasure. I think that I was fated as since being a child, my parents told me that, unlike the other children of my age, my first words waren’t ‚mom and dad’, but ‚pass, pass’. (laughs)

 Have you ever had a connection before with the game at cards?

I play poker with pleasure, and my father is very passionate of the bridge game. He is participating at competitions on a weekly basis. He was playing so much, that we got to hate him for that, both me and my mom (laughs again). He has passed to me some of that passion, but I will only play for pleasure. For as long as my arms hold me, still the arm wrestling will be my number one.

 Have the poker and the arm wrestling have anything in common?

Frustratingly, many things. Everybody thinks that the only thing you need is a strong arm. Of course this is essential. But you also need a strategy and tactics, not mentioning here the luck. The audience sees only the arm force and in poker just the luck. These two sports could seem complementary by association, but they aren’t.

 Has Ion Oncescu got time for poker?

Sometimes, especially at night. That’s a pretty agitated period of time for me and I have so many other ideas that I put into practice, apart from my training time.

 What do you think of 45Bet project?

I wouldn’t have accepted the collaboration with 45Bet in less then 15 seconds if I wouldn’t believed in their project. The need for entertaining is unchangingly growing into a form of fighting stress and online poker is an excellent mode of relaxation. I know there are also preconceived ideas towards poker, but slowly, they will vanish, just like 15 years ago when I won the national champion title for the first time when arm wrestling was associated with sailors and convicts. I think it’s so important and beneficial that a sport, no matter which one, should have a professional side, that involves money, because only then one can reach spectacular levels of performance.