Markus Lehmann (poker player)

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Markus Lehmann
  Personal information  
Date of birth June 25, 1961
place of residence LiechtensteinLiechtenstein Liechtenstein
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0.$ 789,592
Total prize money $ 1,317,650
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 4th
Best main event 484th ( 2011 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title 1
Cashes 2
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
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Cashes 3
Last updated: January 8, 2020

Markus Lehmann (born June 25, 1961 ) is a German - Austrian entrepreneur and poker player .

Personal

Lehmann was born in Germany as the son of an Italian . Prior to his poker career, he was a successful businessman and one of the top representatives at the retail company Herbalife . Lehmann lives in Liechtenstein .

Poker career

Lehmann came to poker through chess and backgammon . After playing only the variants Five Card Stud and Draw from 1979 to 1986 , he came to No Limit Hold'em in the late 1990s . Lehmann has been taking part in renowned live tournaments since 2005 .

In July 2005 he was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and came into the money in a tournament in No Limit Hold'em . In mid-October 2007 Lehmann became the first German to win the main event of the World Poker Tour in Barcelona . For this he prevailed against 225 other players and received a prize of 562,000 euros . At the beginning of March 2008 he won the main event of the Bregenz Open for almost 100,000 euros. At the WSOP Main Event in July 2011, Lehmann finished 484th out of 6865 players. His last live cash placement was in early August 2011 at the main event of the European Poker Tour in Tallinn .

In total, Lehmann has earned almost 1.5 million US dollars with poker in live tournaments . It was sponsored by the online poker room Full Tilt Poker .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Operation MDAY Hangover  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) on intellipoker.de from November 2011, accessed on June 4, 2017.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.intellipoker.de
  2. a b Markus Lehmann Bio on cardplayer.com, accessed on June 4, 2017 (English).
  3. a b c PokerNews profile of Markus Lehmann on pokernews.com on July 18, 2009, accessed on June 4, 2017.
  4. a b c Markus Lehmann in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 4, 2017 (English).
  5. 36th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2005 ($ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 4, 2017.
  6. WPT Spanish Championship (€ 7,500 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Championship Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 4, 2017 (English).
  7. 2008 CAPT Bregenz Open (€ 2,000 Bregenz Open - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 4, 2017 (English).
  8. 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2011 ($ 10,000 World Championship - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 4, 2017.