German Poker Sports Association

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German Poker Sports Association
Association logo of the DPSB
Founded August 1, 2009
Place of foundation GermanyGermany regensburg
president GermanyGermany Stephan Kalhamer
societies 60
Members 2000
Homepage dpsb.org

The Deutsche Poker Sportbund eV , or DPSB for short , is the umbrella organization for poker clubs and poker players in Germany . The DPSB currently (October 2013) has around 60 member clubs, which together have around 2000 individual players. The DPSB was founded on August 1st, 2009 in Regensburg (still under the name German Federation of Poker ). On November 13, 2011, the association was renamed Deutscher Poker Sportbund. He is a member of the International Federation of Poker.

Foundation and development

The reason for founding the DPSB was the desire to create a central German representative for the roughly 2 million poker players nationwide. By joining the DPSB to the International Federation of Poker on October 13, 2009, a first important step in terms of political recognition was achieved very quickly. The president and first board member of the DPSB is the mathematician Stephan Kalhamer . The other board members are Juergen Bachmann , Mike König, Jan Heitmann and Paul Kalisch.

Members

The German Poker Sports Association represents both individual players and clubs. The main focus is not on professional poker players, but on poker as a popular sport. All member associations in the DPSB are pure non-profit associations.

aims

The DPSB has proven to be under the statutes of the promotion of poker in Germany as well as the recognition of thinking sport prescribed (Mind Sports). He holds nationwide poker championships on a purely competitive basis. In addition, the interests of poker players throughout Germany are to be represented externally. The association provides assistance in founding the establishment of poker clubs that want to promote sport as an intellectual test of strength.

activities

Since 2010, the DPSB has been represented once a year at the world's largest youth fair, YOU , where it presents poker as a brain teaser for all ages. Object lessons are offered, educational work is carried out and, in parallel, a champion is chosen at the YOU Poker Open every year.

Championships

The DPSB has established a nationwide team league for poker clubs. There, teams of four fight each other in heads-up duels according to a specially prescribed mode. This team league is 100% athletically motivated and waives any stakes or entry fees. After a preseason, the qualified clubs play the German championship title once a year in the playoffs.

German champions teams since 2009

Five Diamonds Poker Club Berlin 2009/2010 season
Poker Piranhas Hamburg eV 2010/2011 season
1. PSC Riverkings Hof eV 2011/2012 season
1. Koenigsbrunn Poker Club 2012/2013 season
All In Poker Hanover 2013/2014 season
SV 1910 Arminia Hannover eV 2015 season
89suited Poker Munich 2016 season
Poker Piranhas Bulldozers tus Berne eV 2017 season
Poker Piranhas Bulldozers tus Berne eV 2018 season
Poker Piranhas Bulldozers tus Berne eV Season 2019

The tenth season of the team league begins in March 2020, with the final round taking place in autumn 2020.

In addition, the DPSB has been organizing the only sporting German individual championship for poker players since 2013. There members of the association compete against each other in a tournament and determine the title holder. Thomas Nowak from High Five Holdem Poker Düsseldorf is the reigning German champion.

German single champion since 2013

Johannes Schubert Poker club "All In" Winsen Luhe 2012/2013 season
Bjorn Brandes Rethen Poker Club 2013/2014 season
Frank Brillowski High Five Holdem Poker Düsseldorf eV 2015 season
Roman Häusler Berlin Unicorns eV Season 2016/17
Thomas Nowak High Five Holdem Poker Düsseldorf eV 2017 season

National selection

The German team at the IFP Nations Cup (2011)

In November 2011, a team composed and supervised by President Stephan Kalhamer, consisting of Sandra Naujoks , Sebastian Ruthenberg , Tobias Reinkemeier , Moritz Kranich , Konstantin Bücherl , Hans Martin Vogl and Tim Reese, competed for Germany at the IFP Nations Cup in London . In the "Match Poker" variant, twelve teams played for the first recognized world championship title in poker over two days. The German team prevailed and won the world championship.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Nations Cup (No Limit Hold'em - Duplicate Poker *) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on March 2, 2020 (English).