Ali Tekintamgaç

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Ali Tekintamgaç
  Personal information  
Year of birth 1968 or 1969
Country of birth TurkeyTurkey Turkey
Nickname Mafia Ali
place of residence GermanyGermany Berlin
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 343,307
Total prize money $ 503,628
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
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  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
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Last updated: January 8, 2020

Ali Tekintamgaç (* 1968 or 1969 in Turkey ), also known as Mafia Ali , is a German-Turkish poker player . He won in 2010 irregular the Main Event of the World Poker Tour and was convicted in 2014 for fraud in poker games to imprisonment.

Poker career

Tekintamgaç participated in prestigious live tournaments from 2009 to 2012.

Tekintamgaç won his first live prize money in 2009 at King's Casino in Rozvadov in tournaments of the No Limit Hold'em variant with buy-ins of a maximum of 800 euros . At the end of April 2010 he made the money for the first time at the main event of the European Poker Tour and finished 125th in Monte-Carlo with 15,000 euros in prize money. In May 2010, Tekintamgaç won the Main Event of the World Poker Tour (WPT) in Barcelona . For this he prevailed against 325 other players and received a prize of 278,000 euros. At the beginning of August 2010, Tekintamgaç sat at the final table of the main event of the Italian Poker Tour in Venice and received prize money of 46,000 euros for his fifth place.

Overall, Tekintamgaç has earned more than $ 500,000 in poker playing live tournaments.

Fraud and conviction

In November 2010, Tekintamgaç reached the final table at the main event of the Partouche Poker Tour in Cannes , whose prize money was 1.3 million euros. Before the final table started, however, he was disqualified because the organizers had found him cheating with the help of camera recordings. An accomplice of Tekintamgaç, who pretended to be a blogger, spied out his opponents' hand cards during the game and then signaled them to Tekintamgaç via hand signals. With the help of this scam, he had also previously won the WPT Main Event. In other tournaments, Tekintamgaç used a different tool: the poker cards had hidden magnetic strips that could be read by a device that looked like a cell phone . With a button in his ear he could find out the cards of the other players from his accomplices.

In July 2014, Tekintamgaç was sentenced to three years and five months in prison by the Augsburg regional court . In March 2015, eight of his accomplices were sentenced to suspended sentences.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ali Tekintamgac wins WPT Barcelona. In: PokerNews. May 26, 2010, accessed May 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Ali Tekintamgac goes to prison. In: PokerNews. July 14, 2014, accessed April 1, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Rafael Buschmann , Conny Neumann: Crime: Wrong game. In: Der Spiegel 45/2013. November 4, 2013, pp. 50–52 , accessed April 1, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c Ali Tekintamgaç. In: Hendon Mob Poker Database. Retrieved May 12, 2018 .
  5. ↑ EPT - 6 - Grand Final (€ 10,000 + 600 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event). In: Hendon Mob Poker Database. Retrieved May 12, 2018 .
  6. ↑ WPT Spanish Championship (€ 3,200 + 300 No Limit Hold'em). In: Hendon Mob Poker Database. Retrieved May 12, 2018 .
  7. ↑ IPT - 2 - Venice (€ 2,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event). In: Hendon Mob Poker Database. Retrieved May 12, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Partouche Poker Tour - Main Event (€ 7,750 + 750 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event). In: Hendon Mob Poker Database. Retrieved May 12, 2018 .
  9. ↑ a b Arved Klöhn: Ali Tekintamgac sentenced to prison for fraud in poker. In: pokerolymp.com. July 12, 2014, accessed April 1, 2018 .
  10. ↑ a b Jan Meinert: Eight accomplices of Ali Tekintamgac convicted of poker fraud. In: pokerolymp.com. March 21, 2015, accessed April 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Tekintamgaç, Ali
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mafia Ali (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Turkish poker player
DATE OF BIRTH 1968 or 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Turkey