Markus Golser

Markus Golser
Markus Golser (2012)
Personal information
Date of birth	July 9, 1973
place of birth	Salzburg
Nickname	jumper17PokerStars & Full Tilt Poker
place of residence	Salzburg
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	0.$ 222,431
Total prize money	$ 1,079,443
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	no
Cashes	10
Best main event	239th ( 2006 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	1
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	4th
Last updated: February 8, 2020

Markus Golser (born July 9, 1973 in Salzburg ) is a professional Austrian poker player and entrepreneur . Together with the German poker pro Johannes Strassmann , he founded the online poker school and community CardCoaches . Together with the German poker player Sandra Naujoks , Markus Golser started the charity project “All In 4 Kids”, in which all poker players donate two percent of their tournament winnings to children in need.

Career

The trained office clerk Golser started playing poker as a teenager. He was later considered one of the best pot-limit Omaha players in Europe. In 2000 he finished third in this variant of poker at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas . In Europe, Golser preferred to devote himself to the cash game .

Golser is a versatile player when it comes to high-stakes tournaments, although Pot Limit Omaha is his preferred variant. Nevertheless, the successes of Golser can be seen in several poker variants. At the Austrian Masters in the Concord Card Casino , he went off the table once as first and twice as second in No Limit Hold'em and Limit Hold'em . He was also successful at the Poker Wörthersee Trophy in Velden am Wörther See . He can also be found regularly at the WSOP. He finished 2009 in Limit Hold'em sixth place and won a prize of more than 50,000 US dollars . Golser got really active in the European tournament scene with the start of the European Poker Tour . In 2007 he finished fifth at the Main Event in Prague and won around 150,000 euros . His last live cash placement to date was in November 2011. In total, Golser has earned over a million dollars with poker in live tournaments.

Right from the start, Golser was a regular on the German TV format German High Roller , where he played for big pots with Herrmann Pascha and other German poker greats. Golser is a man of the live game, but since 2006 he has also been playing online poker regularly under the nickname jumper17 . From 2007 Golser was FullTilt -Pro and again at events in Pot Limit Omaha found.

CardCoaches

Together with Johannes Strassmann , Golser founded the personal online poker school CardCoaches.com , which went online in a beta version on February 2, 2012. On CardCoaches.com , besides Strassmann and Golser, other well-known German-speaking poker players such as B. Dominik Nitsche together with the aim to train beginners free of charge and to train them to become successful poker players. Even for advanced players, the poker platform offers various strategy articles, hand analyzes and coaching videos that can be used to improve their own poker game.

Web links

• Markus Golser in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Markus Golser in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• Markus Golser in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)
• Interview at high speed
• Video interview on Youtube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Press Release: Launch of the beta version of CardCoaches.com , cfj-enterprises.com on February 2, 2012, accessed on February 8, 2020 (PDF).
2. ↑ Markus Golser in an interview: “Suddenly he threw the whole table over” , hochgepokert.com from February 6, 2012, accessed on February 8, 2020.
3. ↑ Markus Golser in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 19, 2018 (English).
4. ↑ Finally German High Roller again! - 16 new episodes this fall , pokerolymp.com January 29, 2017, accessed February 8, 2020.