Örpen Kısacıkoğlu

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Örpen Kısacıkoğlu
  Personal information  
Date of birth February 8, 1981
Nickname
OrpTheTurkPokerStars
place of residence United KingdomUnited Kingdom London
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 1,015,180
Total prize money $ 5,894,404
World Series of Poker
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Cashes 2
Best main event no cash
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
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Cashes 1
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
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Cashes 3
  Main Event of party poker Live  
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Cashes 3
Last updated: January 28, 2020

Örpen Kısacıkoğlu (born February 8, 1981 ) is a Turkish entrepreneur and poker player .

Personal

Kısacıkoğlu comes from Izmir . He is CEO of Come On London Limited , founded in June 2011 , which provides risk management support services. Kısacıkoğlu lives in the Highgate district of London .

Poker career

Kısacıkoğlu plays online on the PokerStars platform under the nickname OrpTheTurk . Since 2011 he has been participating in renowned live tournaments. He almost exclusively plays high roller events, i.e. tournaments with buy-ins of at least US $ 10,000 .

Mid February 2016 Kısacıkoğlu reached the Main Event of the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Dublin , the money ranks and finished the tournament in the variant No-Limit Hold'em the 54th place, which with more than 10,000 euros was paid. At the end of October 2016, he finished fourth in a one-day high roller at the EPT in Malta and received prize money of around 80,000 euros. In mid-March 2017, he finished fifth at the Super High Roller of the PokerStars Championship (PSC) in Panama City, worth almost $ 150,000, and a few days later he won a high roller event with a prize of around 100,000 dollars. In December 2017, Kısacıkoğlu reached the final table of both the high roller and the super high roller at the PSC in Prague and secured prize money of more than 340,000 euros. A month later, he cashed in the high roller tournament and the main event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in the Bahamas and received prize money of almost $ 200,000. At the beginning of February 2018, after losing heads-up to Christopher Frank, he finished second in the Super High Roller of the Casinos Austria Poker Tour in Seefeld for 172,000 euros. At the end of August 2018, Kısacıkoğlu cashed in at two EPT events in Barcelona and secured prize money of more than 360,000 euros. In early October 2018, he reached the final table of the Millions UK High Roller at partypoker Millions Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham and finished the event in third place, worth £ 200,000 . At the end of the same month, Kısacıkoğlu was successful for the first time at an event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and finished eleventh in the Super High Roller of the World Series of Poker Europe played in Rozvadov , which was paid for just under 185,000 euros. In mid-August 2019 he won the Super High Roller of the partypoker Millions Europe in Rozvadov and received prize money of more than 900,000 euros due to a deal with Wladimir Trojanowski . In October 2019, Kısacıkoğlu finished third in the Short Deck High Roller of the WSOP Europe in Rozvadov and secured around 320,000 euros. In mid-November 2019, he finished second in a $ 50,000 tournament at the partypoker Millions World Bahamas , which was paid for with $ 550,000.

Overall, Kısacıkoğlu has earned almost six million dollars with poker in live tournaments, making him the most successful Turkish poker player .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Orpen Kisacikoglu - Personal Appointments on companieshouse.gov.uk, accessed on December 13, 2018.
  2. ↑ Come On London Limited - Company Profile at suite.endole.co.uk, accessed on December 13, 2018.
  3. ↑ Gambler with £ 5m home may have to pay £ ½m so he can use the drive! on pressreader.com on February 13, 2016, accessed on December 13, 2018.
  4. ↑ WCOOP 2018: All the news from Day 13 on pokerstars.com from September 15, 2018, accessed on January 6, 2019 (English).
  5. ↑ a b Örpen Kısacıkoğlu in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 13, 2018 (English).
  6. ↑ EPT - 12 - UKIPT - 5 - Dublin (€ 5,000 + 300 # 28 No Limit Hold'em EPT Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 13, 2018.
  7. ↑ EPT - 13 - IPT - 8 - Malta (€ 10,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - 8 Handed (Event # 44)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 13, 2018 (English).
  8. ↑ PokerStars Championship Panama ($ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - PokerStars Championship Super High Roller (Event # 5)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 13, 2018.
  9. ↑ PokerStars Championship Panama ($ 10,300 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 42)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 13, 2018.
  10. ↑ PokerStars Championship Prague (€ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller (Event # 9)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 13, 2018.
  11. ↑ PokerStars Championship Prague (€ 10,300 No Limit Hold'em - Pokerstars Championship High Roller (Event # 33)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 13, 2018.
  12. ↑ PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) 2018 ($ 49,700 + 300 # 8 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 13, 2018.
  13. ↑ PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) 2018 ($ 9,700 + 600 # 7 No Limit Hold'em - PCA Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 13, 2018.
  14. ↑ Christopher Frank wins the CAPT Seefeld Super High Roller on hochgepokert.com on February 7, 2018, accessed on December 13, 2018.
  15. ↑ CAPT Seefeld 2018 (€ 25,000 + 750 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 13, 2018 (English).
  16. ↑ European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona (€ 10,300 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 5)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 13, 2018 (English).
  17. ↑ European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona (€ 10,300 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller (Event # 27)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 13, 2018 (English).
  18. ↑ partypoker Millions Dusk Till Dawn (£ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - Millions UK High Roller # 3) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 13, 2018.
  19. ↑ 2018 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) (€ 95,000 + 5,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller (Event # 9) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 13, 2018 (English).
  20. ↑ partypoker Millions Europe (€ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - Triton 100K Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2019.
  21. ↑ World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) 2019 (€ 25,500 No Limit Short Deck Hold'em - High Roller (Event # 6)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on October 20, 2019.
  22. ↑ partypoker Millions World Bahamas ($ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 22, 2019.
  23. ↑ Turkey All Time Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 13, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Kısacıkoğlu, Örpen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES OrpTheTurk (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish entrepreneur and poker player
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1981