Kevin Eyster

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Kevin Eyster
Kevin Eyster (2015)
Kevin Eyster (2015)
  Personal information  
Date of birth August 6, 1989
place of birth United StatesUnited States Lafayette
Nicknames
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1 $ ickDisea $ EPokerStars & Cake Poker

-1SickDisease-Full Tilt Poker

THE1SICKNESSAbsolute poker

Xpugn0WSOP.com
place of residence United StatesUnited States Denver
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 1,587,382
Total prize money $ 4,977,413
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 1
Cashes 45
Best main event 204th ( 2014 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
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Cashes 15th
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
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Cashes 3
  Main Event of party poker Live  
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Cashes 1
Last updated: March 16, 2020

Kevin Eyster (born August 6, 1989 in Lafayette , Louisiana ) is a professional American poker player . He is two-time champions of the World Poker Tour and won in 2014 a bracelet in the World Series of Poker .

Personal

Eyster graduated from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette , but left the university without a degree.

Poker career

Eyster played online from January 2008 to November 2018 under the nicknames 1 $ ickDisea $ E ( PokerStars and Cake Poker) , -1SickDisease- ( Full Tilt Poker ) , THE1SICKNESS (Absolute Poker) and Xpugn0 (WSOP.com) . He has more than 3.5 million with online tournament poker dollar earned, of which more than two million dollars on PokerStars and US dollar almost 1.5 million on Full Tilt Poker were won. In 2010, Eyster was temporarily in fourth place in the PocketFives ranking, which lists the most successful online poker tournament players worldwide. Since 2007 he has also participated in renowned live tournaments .

Eyster won its first live prize money through 2009 at tournaments at the Turning Stone Resort & Casino in Verona , New York . In January 2010, he won the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas a Shootout event in the variant PLO and was second in a Six-Max tournament, for which he received prize money total of almost 70,000 Dollar US. At the end of April 2010, Eyster finished 16th at the main event of the European Poker Tour in Monte-Carlo, endowed with 60,000 euros . In June 2011 he was successful for the first time in the main tournament series of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and came in the money in two tournaments of the No Limit Hold'em variant . In mid-April 2013, Eyster prevailed at the Main Event of the World Poker Tour (WPT) in Hollywood , Florida , and secured a prize money of around 660,000 US dollars. He won a Six Max tournament at the 2014 WSOP and received the grand prize of more than $ 620,000 and a bracelet . At the end of August 2014, Eyster finished third in a River Poker Series tournament in Thackerville for around $ 220,000. At the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, he won the WPT Main Event in mid-December 2015 and, in addition to his second WPT title, secured his highest prize money to date of almost 1.6 million US dollars. In late May 2019, Eyster finished fourth in the WPT's Aria Summer Championship at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas for more than $ 150,000.

In total, Eyster has earned almost five million US dollars with poker in live tournaments.

Web links

Commons : Kevin Eyster  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 1SickDisease in the PocketFives database, accessed on March 16, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ Kevin "1SickDisease" Eyster Event # 6 $ 365 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed on pokernews.com on January 19, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c Kevin Eyster in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 16, 2020.
  4. ↑ PCA - 2010 ($ 500 + 50 Pot Limit Omaha - Shootout) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 16, 2020.
  5. ↑ PCA - 2010 ($ 1,000 + 100 No Limit Hold'em - 6 Max) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 16, 2020.
  6. ↑ EPT - 6 - Grand Final (€ 10,000 + 600 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 16, 2020 (English).
  7. ↑ 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2011 ($ 2,500 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 16, 2020.
  8. ↑ 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2011 ($ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em - Triple Chance) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 16, 2020.
  9. ↑ WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown ($ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em - Championship Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed March 16, 2020.
  10. ↑ 45th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2014 ($ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em - Six Handed (Event # 24)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 16, 2020 (English).
  11. ↑ 2014 The River Poker Series ($ 2,400 + 100 No Limit Hold'em Event 6) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 16, 2020.
  12. ↑ WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic ($ 10,000 + 400 No Limit Hold'em WPT Main Event (Event # 16)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 16, 2020.
  13. ↑ WPT Aria Summer Championship ($ 9,500 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Aria Summer Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 16, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Eyster, Kevin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 1 $ ickDisea $ E (nickname); -1SickDisease- (nickname); THE1SICKNESS (nickname); Xpugn0 (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Lafayette , Louisiana , United States