Alexandre Gomes

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Alexandre Gomes
Alexandre Gomes (2008)
Alexandre Gomes (2008)
  Personal information  
Date of birth July 24, 1982
place of birth BrazilBrazil Curitiba
Nickname
AllingomesPokerStars, Full Tilt Poker & partypoker
place of residence BrazilBrazil Curitiba
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 1,187,670
Total prize money $ 3,689,990
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 1
Cashes 6th
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 6th
  Main Event of party poker Live  
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Cashes 1
Last updated: May 25, 2020

Alexandre Gomes de Souza Luz (born July 24, 1982 in Curitiba , Paraná ) is a professional Brazilian poker player .

Personal

Gomes grew up with an older sister at times with her father in London , who was killed in a car accident when Gomes was 15 years old. In Brazil he played soccer in his childhood . After graduating from school, he began studying law at the Universidade Federal do Paraná , which he graduated in 2005. Gomes lives in Curitiba .

Poker career

Gomes has been playing on the online poker platforms PokerStars , Full Tilt Poker and partypoker under the nickname Allingomes since October 2006 . He won an event of the Spring Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars in May 2012 for a prize of more than 280,000 US dollars . In total, he earned more than $ 1.5 million in prize money from online tournament poker and was part of Team PokerStars at times . Since 2006, Gomes has also been participating in renowned live tournaments.

Gomes finished second in the main event of the World Series of Poker circuit tournament in Atlantic City in mid-December 2006 for more than $ 200,000. At the end of June 2008 he was successful for the first time in the main tournament series of the World Series of Poker in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and won a tournament of the No Limit Hold'em variant . For this he prevailed against 2,316 other players and secured a prize of around 770,000 US dollars and was the first South American ever to win a bracelet . In January 2009, he reached the final table at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventures Main Event in the Bahamas and finished fourth, worth $ 750,000. In July of the same year, Gomes won the Main Event of the World Poker Tour at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas and received the grand prize of just under 1.2 million US dollars. At the main event of the European Poker Tour in Barcelona at the end of September 2011 he also sat at the final table and came in seventh for 185,000 euros . At the end of May 2018, Gomes finished second in a Super High Roller in Puerto Iguazú and secured the most prize money of $ 150,000 through a deal with three other players.

In total, Gomes has earned more than $ 3.5 million in poker live tournaments, making him the most successful Brazilian poker player .

Web links

Commons : Alexandre Gomes  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c A Poker Life - Alexandre Gomes on cardplayer.com from January 18, 2010, accessed on May 25, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ SCOOP-01-H: $ 2,100 NL Hold'em [6-Max, $ 750K Gtd] in the PocketFives database, accessed May 26, 2020.
  3. ↑ Allingomes in the PocketFives database, accessed on May 25, 2020.
  4. ↑ a b Alexandre Gomes in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 25, 2020 (English).
  5. ↑ WSOP Circuit - WSOPC Atlantic City ($ 4,900 + 250 No Limit Hold'em - Championship Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 25, 2020.
  6. ↑ 39th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2008 ($ 2,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 25, 2020.
  7. ↑ PokerStars Caribbean Adventure - PCA 2009 ($ 9,700 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 25, 2020.
  8. ↑ Bellagio Cup V ($ 15,000 + 400 No Limit Hold'em - Championship Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 25, 2020.
  9. ↑ European Poker Tour - EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final (€ 10,000 + 400 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Grand Final) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 25, 2020 (English).
  10. ↑ Super High Roller Iguazu ($ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 25, 2020.
  11. ↑ Brazil All Time Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 25, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Gomes, Alexandre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gomes de Souza Luz, Alexandre (full name); Allingomes (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian poker player
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Curitiba , Paraná , Brazil