Daniel Makowsky

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Daniel Makowsky
  Personal information  
Year of birth 1978
Country of birth GermanyGermany Germany
Nicknames
0
amichaiKKPokerStars

kudelyKQFull Tilt Poker
place of residence SwitzerlandSwitzerland Zurich
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0 '$ 355,050
Total prize money $ 1,203,426
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 20th
Best main event 524th ( 2009 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 2
Last updated: March 12, 2020

Daniel Makowsky (* 1978 in Germany ) is a professional Swiss poker player from Zurich .

Career

Makowsky played regularly until April 2011 online - poker tournaments on PokerStars under the nickname amichaiKK . His greatest successes there were a runner-up in the World Championship of Online Poker tournament in September 2006 , which earned him more than US $ 100,000 in prize money, and a runner -up prize in the Sunday Million on April 8, 2007 of 120,000 US dollars. Overall, Makowsky has earned more than 1.6 million US dollars with online tournament poker. He also played cash games on Full Tilt Poker under his nickname kudelyKQ .

Makowksky celebrated his greatest success so far in June 2008 at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas . At an event of the variant PLO with rebuys he lost only the Americans Layne Flack in the heads-up and missed second place just under a bracelet . With 355,050 US dollars, he secured the highest prize money of any Swiss poker player to date. In 2009, he finished fifth and sixth at the WSOP . In the main event , he came in 524 and won $ 23,196. In 2010 Makowsky made it into the money three times at the WSOP. a. he finished eleventh at a HORSE event. In September 2010, he reached the final table of the World Poker Tour's main event , the Borgata Poker Open in Atlantic City . He finished the tournament in fifth place and received more than 180,000 US dollars in prize money. Makowksky achieved his last live cash placement to date in June 2015.

His career prize money to date has been estimated at over one million US dollars.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ amichaikk in the PocketFives database, accessed on March 12, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ WSOP 2008: Event # 34 and Event # 35: Final tables reached on isa-guide.de on June 20, 2008, accessed on June 16, 2016.
  3. ^ Daniel Makowsky in the World Series of Poker database, accessed November 27, 2009.
  4. ↑ a b Daniel Makowsky in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 12, 2020 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Makowsky, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES amichaiKK (nickname); kudelyKQ (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss poker player
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Germany