Jan Heitmann (poker player)

Jan Heitmann
Personal information
Date of birth	20th September 1976
place of birth	Olpe
Nickname	Ground nose
place of residence	Munich
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	$ 294,601
Total prize money	$ 999,723
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	no
Cashes	6th
Best main event	26. ( 2012 )
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	8th
Last updated: May 26, 2020

Jan Heitmann (born September 20, 1976 in Olpe ) is a professional German poker player and trainer. His nickname "Erdnase" is a tribute to one of the most important card magicians, SW Erdnase .

biography

From 1998 to 2003, Heitmann studied business administration at the University of Applied Sciences for Management in Vallendar and successfully completed his studies with a degree in business administration.

He came into contact with poker for the first time in 1994, and gained his first experience of real games while studying at the Wiesbaden casino. At that time limit cash games of the variants Omaha - and Texas Hold'em as well as Stud were played .

After receiving his diploma, Heitmann went on a poker trip through Europe with the aim of financing his trip through the game of poker.

At the same time, the poker boom set in in the USA, and a few years later the poker boom came to Germany. Heitmann was able to use his knowledge and media affinity to become one of the most famous personalities on the German poker scene.

Heitmann is one of the most renowned poker experts in Germany. He played for Team PokerStars until the end of 2015 and has been the figurehead for poker in Germany for years. When he is not playing himself, he shares his knowledge with others, whether as a poker coach , Sport1 poker expert or celebrity trainer for the PokerStars.de night on ProSieben . As a keynote speaker, he also transfers poker concepts to business decisions.

Heitmann is married and has two daughters, he lives in Munich .

Poker career

Career

His greatest successes to date include second place at the European Poker Classics at Victoria Casino London , two final tables at the European Poker Tour in Monte-Carlo 2005 and ninth place at the 2006 World Heads-Up Championships in Barcelona . At the main event of the World Series of Poker in 2012 in Las Vegas, he finished 26th, which brought him his highest cash win to date with just under 300,000 US dollars . A month later, he won the main event of the German Championship of Poker for a further 104,800 euros .

In total, Heitmann has earned around one million US dollars with poker in live tournaments.

Results (selection)

All tournaments in which Heitmann won the equivalent of at least 25,000 US dollars are listed.

Tournament start	city	Event	space	Prize money (in $ )
March 23, 2006	London	European Poker Classics (Main Event)	02	127.271
Jan. 29, 2008	Dortmund	European Poker Tour ( Main Event )	19th	025,536
Apr 1, 2008	Sanremo	European Poker Tour (Main Event)	16	027,805
Apr 12, 2008	Monte Carlo	European Poker Tour (Main Event)	67	033,229
June 26, 2010	Las Vegas	Bellagio Cup	01	026,695
Jan. 7, 2012	Paradise Island	PokerStars Caribbean Adventure ( Main Event )	38	041,000
Jan 25, 2012	Seefeld	Casinos Austria Poker Tour	02	031.206
June 30, 2012	to bathe	High limit tournaments	01	029,469
July 7, 2012	Las Vegas	World Series of Poker ( Main Event )	26th	294,601
Aug 10, 2012	Rozvadov	German Championship of Poker (Main Event)	01	130.022
Aug 21, 2014	Barcelona	European Poker Tour (Main Event)	39	032,441

Web links

• Official website
• January Heitmann in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Jan Heitmann in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• January Heitmann in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Team PokerStars Pro Germany on pokerstars.com, accessed October 21, 2009.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Jan Heitmann in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 24, 2020 (English).