Marvin Rettenmaier

Marvin Rettenmaier
Marvin Rettenmaier (2018)
Personal information
Date of birth	September 10, 1986
place of birth	Leonberg
Nickname	Mad Marvin
Nickname	Ron Jovi 7PokerStars
place of residence	London
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	$ 1,196,858
Total prize money	$ 7,439,918
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	no
Cashes	53
Best main event	99th ( 2013 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	2
Cashes	18th
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	3
Main Event of party poker Live
title	no
Cashes	4th
Last updated: August 30, 2020

Marvin Guido Rettenmaier (born September 10, 1986 in Leonberg ) is a professional German poker player .

Rettenmaier has earned almost 7.5 million US dollars in live tournaments and is one of the most successful German poker players . He is nicknamed Mad Marvin and two-time champions of the World Poker Tour . From December 31, 2012 to January 6, 2013, Rettenmaier was number one in the poker world rankings for a week for the first time . Overall, he led the ranking for 18 weeks , most recently in October 2013.

Personal

Rettenmaier did a bachelor's degree in business administration . He lives in London .

Poker career

Career

Rettenmaier started playing poker in 2007. He plays on the online poker platform PokerStars under the nickname Ron Jovi 7 . Since 2009 he has also been taking part in renowned live tournaments.

Rettenmaier was in June 2010 for the first time at the World Series of Poker in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas successful and came in three tournaments of the variant No-Limit Hold'em in the money. In November 2010 he won the main event of the Spanish Poker Tour in Lloret de Mar with a prize money of 111,000 euros . In mid-February 2012, he secured victory at the main event of the France Poker Series in Paris for just under 250,000 euros. In May 2012, Rettenmaier won the Main Event of the World Poker Tour (WPT) at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas and received his highest prize money to date of around 1.2 million US dollars . At the beginning of August 2012 he won another WPT main event and secured his second WPT title and a prize of almost 300,000 US dollars in Kyrenia, Cyprus . This makes him the only German-speaking multiple WPT title winner and the first player ever to win two WPT main events in a row. Thanks to these achievements, Rettenmaier was named Player of the Year 2012 by the Global Poker Index at the end of the year . In mid-December 2013 he won the high roller of the European Poker Tour in Prague for more than 350,000 euros. In August 2013, Rettenmaier won the high roller of the bwin WPT Merit Cyprus Classic in Kyrenia for around 180,000 US dollars. In mid-August 2016, he won the high roller of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open in Hollywood with a prize of almost 800,000 US dollars. At the end of August 2017, Rettenmaier was again at the final table of the WPT Main Event and finished fifth in Los Angeles for prize money of around 120,000 US dollars. In January 2019 he reached the fourth day of the tournament at the PokerStars Players Championship in the Bahamas , where he was eliminated in 27th place, worth $ 126,000.

Prize money overview

year	Prize money (in $ )	Tournament victories
2009	0.032,150	-
2010	0.510.362	3
2011	0.827.951	2
2012	2,503,018	4th
2013	0.663.494	4th
2014	0.342.272	-
2015	0.210.221	-
2016	1,191,040	1
2017	0.338.919	-
2018	0.255.417	1
2019	0.478,953	1
2020	0.086,120	-
total	7,439,918	16

Web links

Commons : Marvin Rettenmaier  - Collection of Images

• Marvin Rettenmaier in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Marvin Rettenmaier in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• Marvin Rettenmaier in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Marvin Rettenmaier in the database of the Global Poker Index, accessed on December 1, 2017 (English).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Marvin Rettenmaier in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 1, 2017 (English).
3. ↑ Super Tuesday: Win and $ 90K for 'Palomobuchón', Marvin 'Ron Jovi 7' Rettenmaier finished fourth on pokerstars.com on January 20, 2016, accessed on December 1, 2017.
4. ↑ Spanish Poker Tour Grand Finale (€ 3,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 1, 2017 (English).
5. ↑ FPS - 1 - Paris Final (€ 1,800 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 1, 2017 (English).
6. ↑ WPT World Championship ($ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 1, 2017.
7. ↑ WPT Merit Cyprus Classic ($ 4,000 + 400 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 1, 2017.
8. ↑ It's Back to Back wins for PartyPokers very own "Mad" Marvin Rettenmaier at the WPT Merit Cyprus Classic! Can he make it a triple? on partypoker.com on August 13, 2012, accessed December 1, 2017.
9. ↑ Player of the Year in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 1, 2017.
10. ↑ EPT - 9 - EUREKA - 2 - Prague (€ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller 8 Handed) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 1, 2017 (English).
11. ↑ bwin WPT Merit Cyprus Classic 2013 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 1, 2017 (English).
12. ↑ 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open ($ 25,500 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller (Event # 25)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 1, 2017.
13. ↑ WPT Legends of Poker ($ 4,000 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Main Event (Event # 24)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 1, 2017.
14. ↑ PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) 2019 ($ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em - Players Championship (Event # 2)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 9, 2019.