My real name is Jérôme Moreau, but on the felt everyone calls me «Ibiza», and online I'm El_cardiaK. I'm from Valence, in the Drôme — that's the "26" in my handles. I cut my teeth at the local club in Valence — the SPANK — back in 2011, when a close friend opened a poker association. Back then I was a fibre-optic technician dreaming of starting my own business; instead I trained as a croupier, and the game took over my life. Those association nights at the SPANK taught me to read people long before I ever read a board — and to this day the player I most want to face is Daniel Negreanu.
Since 2012 I've dealt the biggest stages in poker — the EPT, the Triton Series, WSOP Europe and the WPT. If you've watched a televised final table on the EPT or Triton, there's a good chance I was the one in the box. Winamax once called me "one of the most remarkable dealers on the circuit" — nearly two metres tall, always sharp. For about a decade I've been based in Malta (Sliema), which is home base between festivals.
