Nick Petrangelo

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Nick Petrangelo
Nick Petrangelo (2018)
Nick Petrangelo (2018)
  Personal information  
Date of birth 2nd January 1987
place of birth United StatesUnited States Feeding Hills
Nicknames
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caeciliusPokerStars

canofcorn22Full Tilt Poker
place of residence United StatesUnited States Feeding Hills
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0$ 2,910,227
Total prize money $ 17,498,983
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 2
Cashes 23
Best main event 527th ( 2017 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
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Cashes 2
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
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Cashes 5
  Main Event of the PokerStars Championship  
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Cashes 2
  Main Event of party poker Live  
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Cashes 1
Last updated: August 11, 2020

Nicholas Vincent "Nick" Petrangelo (born January 2, 1987 in Feeding Hills , Massachusetts ) is a professional American poker player .

Petrangelo has earned almost $ 17.5 million in poker in live tournaments . He is two-time bracelet winner of the World Series of Poker and achieved many other victories in Super High Roller -Events, including 2,017 in the A $ 100,000 Challenge the Aussie Millions Poker Championship . From mid-January 2017 he was at the top of the poker world rankings for 5 weeks . From April 5 to August 22, 2017, he will lead them again for 20 weeks in a row.

Personal

Petrangelo played hockey from childhood and made it into Division III at college. After several concussions , he ended his career as a precaution. He graduated from Skidmore College, a private college in New York , with a degree in finance . After the financial crisis in 2008, Petrangelo couldn't find a job and decided to make his living playing poker. He lives in Feeding Hills , Massachusetts .

Poker career

Petrangelo at an Alpha8 event in Las Vegas (2015)

Career

Petrangelo plays on the online poker platform PokerStars under the nickname caecilius and uses the name canofcorn22 at Full Tilt Poker . In December 2012, he collected the most points worldwide in the Pocket Fives ranking, which lists the most successful online tournament players; In 2013 it was temporarily among the top 10 in the world in the Pocket Fives ranking. On PokerStars , Petrangelo won the high-roller event of the World Championship of Online Poker in September 2017 with a prize of around 625,000 US dollars . Since 2009 he has also been taking part in renowned live tournaments .

Petrangelo was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas in mid-June 2009 and cashed in a tournament in the No Limit Hold'em variant . At the beginning of 2015 he won a tournament as part of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventures (PCA) in the Bahamas with a prize money of more than 100,000 US dollars. A few days later, he reached the final table at the PCA's high roller event and finished the tournament in sixth place for an additional $ 300,000. At the 2015 WSOP , Petrangelo won a shootout event and thus a bracelet and around 200,000 US dollars in prize money. Petrangelo secured his highest prize money to date in mid-December 2015 when he took second place behind Fedor Holz at the Alpha8 of the World Poker Tour in the Hotel Bellagio in Las Vegas and received over one million US dollars for it. In mid-January 2017, he reached the final table at the high roller event of the first PokerStars Championship in the Bahamas and finished the tournament in second place for almost $ 750,000. Just two weeks later won Petr Angelo the A $ 100,000 Challenge the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne with a prize money of 882,000 Australian dollars . At the end of April 2018, he finished second behind Steve O'Dwyer on a high roller on the European Poker Tour in Monte-Carlo for just under 470,000 euros. In May 2018, Petrangelo finished sixth at the Super High Roller Bowl at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas and received $ 900,000 in prize money. A few days later, he won the $ 100,000 high roller event of the 2018 WSOP , securing his second bracelet and a prize of almost $ 3 million. Petrangelo also made the final table at the series' high roller event, which cost $ 50,000, and came in third for around $ 720,000 in prize money.

Bracelet overview

Petrangelo cashed 23 times at the WSOP and won two bracelets :

year Buy-in (in $ ) competition Attendees Prize money (in $)
2015 00.3000 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout 308 0.201.812
2018 100,000 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller 105 2,910,227

Prize money overview

year Prize money (in $ ) Tournament victories
2009 00.00.9327 -
2010 00.026,575 -
2011 00.049.020 -
2012 00.085,327 1
2013 00.054.032 -
2014 00.189.202 -
2015 03,423,620 2
2016 02,138,761 3
2017 03,502,428 1
2018 06,956,868 5
2019 01,063,825 1
2020 00,000.000 -
total 17,498,983 13

Web links

Commons : Nick Petrangelo  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EPT 11 Malta Main Event - Day 1a players - The European Poker Tour , accessed June 16, 2016 (xls, English).
  2. ↑ Nick Petrangelo hockey statistics and profile on hockeydb.com, accessed January 28, 2017.
  3. ↑ a b Nick Petrangelo in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 16, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b Nick Petrangelo in the World Series of Poker database, accessed June 5, 2018.
  5. ↑ Nick Petrangelo in the Global Poker Index database, accessed January 19, 2017.
  6. ↑ Nick Petrangelo Explodes On The Scene With Nine Six-Figure Scores In 2015 on cardplayer.com from January 16, 2016, accessed on January 28, 2017 (English).
  7. ↑ Nick Petrangelo wins $ 3k Buy-in Shootout at 2015 WSOP on wsop.com on May 31, 2015, accessed on June 16, 2016.
  8. ↑ caecilius ( memento of June 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) in the PocketFives database, accessed on August 11, 2020 (English).
  9. ↑ WCOOP Results Day 20: Nick Petrangelo wins the $ 25K High Roller on pokernews.com on September 24, 2017, accessed on September 29, 2017.
  10. ↑ 40th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2009 ($ 2,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 16, 2016.
  11. ↑ PCA - 2015 ($ 4,850 + 450 # 9 No Limit Hold'em - Turbo 8 Handed) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 16, 2016.
  12. ↑ PCA - 2015 ($ 24,000 + 1,000 # 24 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller 8 Handed) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 16, 2016.
  13. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 3,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout (Event # 4)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 16, 2016.
  14. ↑ WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic ($ 100,000 WPT Alpha8 - No Limit Hold'em High Roller (Event # 18)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 16, 2016.
  15. ↑ PokerStars Championship Bahamas ($ 25,000 + 750 No Limit Hold'em - PokerStars Championship High Roller (Event # 66)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on January 15, 2017.
  16. ↑ 2017 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 98,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em - $ 100,000 Challenge (Event # 12)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 15, 2017.
  17. ↑ European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo (€ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - 8 Handed # 17) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 30, 2018 (English).
  18. ↑ 2018 Super High Roller Bowl ($ 300,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed May 31, 2018.
  19. ↑ 49th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2018 ($ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller (Event # 5)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 5, 2018.
  20. ↑ 49th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2018 ($ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller (Event # 77)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 15, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Petrangelo, Nick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petrangelo, Nicholas Vincent (full name); caecilius (nickname); canofcorn22 (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd January 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Feeding Hills , Massachusetts , United States