Johannes Strassmann
| Johannes Strassmann | |
|---|---|
 Johannes Strassmann (2008) |
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| Personal information | |
| Date of birth | 3rd January 1985 |
| place of birth |
 Bonn
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| date of death | June 21, 2014 |
| Place of death |
 Ljubljana
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| Nickname |
J. StrassmannPokerStars
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| Live Poker Tournament Achievements | |
| Highest prize money | $ 363,842 |
| Total prize money | $ 1,558,401 |
| World Series of Poker | |
| Bracelets | no |
| Cashes | 7th |
| Best main event | no cash |
| Main event of the European Poker Tour | |
| title | no |
| Cashes | 10 |
Johannes Strassmann (born January 3, 1985 in Bonn ; † June 21, 2014 in Ljubljana , Slovenia ) was a German poker player and was one of the most successful European live and online poker players . He was the coach of poker world champion Pius Heinz and prepared him in 2011 in the area of fitness and mental strength for the final table of the main event of the WSOP . In 2010, Strassmann founded the online poker school CardCoaches.com together with Markus Golser and was involved in it until July 2012.
Life
Strassmann grew up as the son of the translator Ralph Noble and the doctor Dorothea Strassmann in Bonn. From 1997 until he finished 10th grade in 2001, he attended the Odenwald School's educational home and in 2005 obtained the general university entrance qualification in Bonn. Johannes Strassmann broke off his intended career as an officer in the Bundeswehr at the end of 2006. Like Bertrand Grospellier and Iain Girdwood , Strassmann found access to online poker by playing the PC strategy game Starcraft professionally . Strassmann was in the temporarily most successful German StarCraft clan Templars of Twilight as ToT) Psier ( active. Strassmann also used the name Psier at the beginning of his poker career until he was accepted into the PokerStars Team Pro and from then on used his real name. The name is derived from the psi skills of the StarCraft breed Protoss. At the beginning of 2007 he moved to Vienna and started his career as a professional poker player.
In his spare time, Strassmann played basketball and golf as well as strength , endurance and martial arts . He lived in Vienna and was involved in the charity "all in 4 kids", to which he donated part of his tournament winnings, for example to enable children in Cambodia to attend school regularly.
Strassmann has been missing in Ljubljana, Slovenia, since the late evening of June 21, 2014. On June 28, 2014, it was announced that the dead man found on June 27 near his last whereabouts in the Ljubljanica river was Strassmann. An autopsy found that the cause of death was drowning . On July 16, 2014, the spokeswoman for the Ljubljana police announced that Strassmann's corpse had been found to contain prohibited substances.
poker
Career
He gained his first experience online with the poker variant Limit Hold'em . Using poker textbooks and analyzing his moves (hands), Strassmann quickly improved his skills. Most recently he played mainly on shorthanded no-limit hold'em tables at the limits of $ 10/20, $ 25/50 and $ 100/200. Even before the beginning of his live poker career, he won in No-Limit Hold'em heads-up matches more than 100,000 US dollars . Since 2007, Strassmann has also increasingly played live tournaments . Former tennis player Boris Becker was also regularly coached by Strassmann.
Since 2007, Strassmann has placed 19 money placements in both national and international poker tournaments, generating more than $ 1.5 million in prize money. In addition to seven cashes at the World Series of Poker in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas , he was awarded ten prize money on the European Poker Tour (EPT). At the EPT Main Event , Strassmann reached the final table three times: in 2008 he finished sixth with € 152,000 in prize money at EPT Dortmund and seventh at EPT London for the equivalent of around $ 220,000. In early 2010 he achieved third place at the EPT Snowfest in Austria, where he won 166,000 euros. He secured his highest prize money, the equivalent of over 360,000 dollars, in October 2013 for his fifth place at the EPT Super High Roller in London. At the EPT, Strassmann was third in the 2010 all-time ranking, making him the most successful German EPT player. He took part several times in the German cash game TV format German High Roller , where he played for big pots together with other German poker players such as Michael Keiner or Dragan Galic .
The online poker platform PokerStars signed a sponsorship deal with him in the first year of his professional career and took him on to the PokerStars Pro team , of which he was a member until his death. On PokerStars , Strassmann played under the nickname J. Strassmann .
Tournament results
The following is a detailed list of the poker tournaments in which Strassmann took prize money:
CardCoaches
Together with Markus Golser , Strassmann founded the personal online poker school CardCoaches.com, which went online on February 2, 2012 with a beta version of the site. In addition to Strassmann and Golser, other well-known German-speaking poker players like Dominik Nitsche have teamed up on CardCoaches.com with the aim of training beginners free of charge and training them to become successful poker players. From July 2012, Strassmann was no longer involved in CardCoaches.
Web links
- Johannes Strassmann in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
- Johannes Strassmann in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
- Johannes Strassmann in the database of the World Series of Poker : 2007 , from 2008 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Strassmann buried - His mother's words of comfort. (with obituary). 23rd July 2014.
- ↑ pokerstrategy.com: Johannes Strassmann is dead , accessed on September 27, 2016.
- ↑ donkpedia.org: Johannes Strassmann , accessed on June 28, 2014.
- ↑ a b c de.pokernews.com: PokerNews exclusive interview: Johannes Strassmann , accessed on June 28, 2014.
- ↑ bild.de: WSOP: Strassmann makes Pius strong , accessed on June 28, 2014.
- ↑ hochgepokert.com: CardCoaches.com: Today launch of the beta version! , accessed June 28, 2014.
- ↑ Stephanie Beisch: German poker professional disappeared without a trace. In: Stern , June 27, 2014.
- ↑ Johannes Strassmann: German poker pro found dead , Spiegel Online , June 28, 2014.
- ↑ Poker player Strassmann: Autopsy confirms death by drowning , Spiegel Online, June 30, 2014.
- ↑ The King of Poker died in a drug intoxication. In: Bild.de from July 16, 2014.
- ↑ Strassmann had drugs in his blood. In: Sport1 of July 16, 2014.
- ↑ pokerstars.de: Team Pokerstars.de , accessed on June 28, 2014.
- ↑ a b Johannes Strassmann in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 28, 2014 (English).
- ↑ cfj-enterprises.com: Press Release: Launch of the beta version of CardCoaches.com (PDF, 167 kB) accessed on June 28, 2014.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Strassmann, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | J. Strassmann (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German poker player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd January 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 2014 |
| Place of death | Ljubljana , Slovenia |