Kenny Hallaert

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Kenny Hallaert
Kenny Hallaert
Kenny Hallaert
  Personal information  
Date of birth November 14, 1981
place of birth BelgiumBelgium Hansbeke
Nicknames
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SpaceyFCBPokerStars, Full Tilt Poker & 888poker

Spacey1891partypoker

FCBSpaceypartypoker.fr & TitanPoker
place of residence United KingdomUnited Kingdom London
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 1,464,258
Total prize money $ 4,325,905
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 51
Best main event 6. ( 2016 )
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
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Cashes 5
  Main Event of party poker Live  
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Cashes 1
Last updated: May 19, 2020

Kenny Hallaert (born November 14, 1981 in Hansbeke , Nevele ) is a professional Belgian poker player and tournament director.

Personal

Hallaert is a trained electrician and worked in a company until the beginning of 2008. He lives in London .

Poker career

Hallaert placed a sports bet on his favorite club, Club Bruges, at the end of 2004 and became aware of an advertisement from the online poker room Unibet . He then started playing for small amounts of money and reading poker books. In 2008 he became a promoter for the casino in Namur and a year later its tournament director. Today Hallaert plays online under the nicknames SpaceyFCB ( PokerStars , Full Tilt Poker and 888poker ) , Spacey1891 ( partypoker ) and FCBSpacey (partypoker.fr and TitanPoker) . He has tournament revenues of almost 6.5 million US dollars . He secured his highest prize money in mid-May 2017 by winning a tournament in the Spring Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars with a prize money of just under 150,000 US dollars. Hallaert has also been taking part in renowned live tournaments since 2006.

In mid-June was Hallaert 2009 first time at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas successful and died in a tournament variant No-Limit Hold'em the money. In November 2009, he took sixth place at the Master Classics of Poker in Amsterdam for prize money of around 85,000 euros . At the end of January 2011 Hallaert sat at the final table of the main event of the European Poker Tour in Deauville and received 155,000 euros for his sixth place. At the 2015 WSOP , he reached the final table at the Colossus event, the largest live poker tournament ever held worldwide with a field of 22,374 players, and came in fifth for just under $ 200,000. A year later reached Hallaert the WSOP Main Event with the fourth largest chip stack to the final table , which was played in late October 2016th Before the final table he was coached by the German poker pro Fedor Holz . Hallaert ended up in sixth place and received his highest prize money to date of just under 1.5 million US dollars. He made it to two final tables at the 2017 WSOP and made it to the sixth day of the main event for a combined income of more than $ 450,000. At the beginning of November 2017, Hallaert finished tenth in the € 111,111 High Roller for One Drop of the World Series of Poker Europe at King's Resort in Rozvadov and received prize money of around € 300,000.

Overall, Hallaert has earned more than four million US dollars with poker in live tournaments, making it the third most successful Belgian poker player after Davidi Kitai and Pierre Neuville .

Web links

Commons : Kenny Hallaert  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kenny Hallaert, De Belg die Wereldkampioen wil been on pokerlistings.nl on July 29, 2016, accessed on December 20, 2017 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ a b c November-Niner Kenny Hallaert: "I am not one of the best 9 players in this tournament" ( Memento from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on pokerzeit.com from August 3, 2016, accessed on December 20, 2017.
  3. ↑ SpaceyFCB in the PocketFives database, accessed December 20, 2017.
  4. ↑ SCOOP-29-H: $ 1,050 NLHE [8-Max], $ 500K Gtd in the PocketFives database, accessed December 20, 2017 (English).
  5. ↑ a b c Kenny Hallaert in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 20, 2017.
  6. ↑ 40th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2009 ($ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 20, 2017.
  7. ↑ Master Classics of Poker 2009 (€ 6,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - Lido International Dutch Open) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 20, 2017 (English).
  8. ↑ EPT - 7 - Deauville (€ 5,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 20, 2017.
  9. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 565 No Limit Hold'em The Colossus (Event # 5)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 20, 2017.
  10. ↑ Kenny Hallaert Shares About Coaching Strategy from Holz on pokernews.com from December 13, 2016, accessed on December 30, 2017 (English).
  11. ↑ 47th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2016 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event Championship (Event # 68)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 20, 2017.
  12. ↑ 2017 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) (€ 111,111 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller for One Drop (Event # 10)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 20, 2017 (English).
  13. ↑ Belgium All Time Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 19, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Hallaert, Kenny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES SpaceyFCB (nickname); Spacey1891 (nickname); FCBSpacey (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian poker player and tournament director
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Hansbeke , Nevele , Belgium