Pierre Neuville

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Pierre Neuville
Pierre Neuville (2016)
Pierre Neuville (2016)
  Personal information  
Date of birth January 2, 1943
place of birth BelgiumBelgium Mont-sur-Marchienne
Nickname The Serial Qualifier
Nickname
columboPokerStars
place of residence United KingdomUnited Kingdom London
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 1,203,293
Total prize money $ 4,798,067
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 45
Best main event 7. ( 2015 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 1
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 15th
  Main Event of party poker Live  
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Cashes 1
Last updated: May 19, 2020

Pierre Neuville (born January 2, 1943 in Mont-sur-Marchienne , Charleroi ) is a professional Belgian poker player and former entrepreneur .

Personal

Neuville comes from Montigny-le-Tilleul in Wallonia . He studied at the Université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels in the 1960s . In 1969 he founded a board game company that developed the game Eddy Merckx , named after the racing cyclist . In 1982 he sold his company to the toy manufacturer Hasbro , where he made it to the post of Vice President himself. In 2012 he developed a board game called Poker Champ . After Neuville was diagnosed with a serious illness in 2007, he quit work and decided to become a professional poker player.

Neuville is married and has three children. He lives in London .

Poker career

Neuville first came into contact with poker in 1957 and often played the variant Seven Card Stud during his studies . After graduating from university, he didn't play poker for over 40 years until his change of heart in 2007. He then opened an account with the online poker room PokerStars under the nickname columbo and managed to qualify for the main event of the European Poker Tour (EPT) 23 times in a row . This achievement earned him the nickname The Serial Qualifier .

In June 2008 Neuville was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and cashed in a tournament of the No Limit Hold'em variant . In mid-April 2009 Neuville reached ninth place at the EPT Main Event in Sanremo, Italy, and won almost 80,000 euros in prize money. Five months later, he sat at a final table of the EPT Main Event for the first time and finished second in Vilamoura, Portugal for more than 250,000 euros. He repeated this performance in February 2012 at the EPT in Copenhagen , where only the Dane Mickey Petersen landed in front of him and Neuville received the equivalent of over 280,000 US dollars . He won his highest cash prize to date at the 2014 WSOP when he narrowly missed a bracelet and finished second behind Kevin Eyster in a six-handed event for almost $ 400,000 in prize money. In July 2015 , Neuville reached the final table of the WSOP main event with the fourth-largest chip stack . As the oldest participant in the so-called November Nine to date , he landed there in seventh place in November 2015 and won prize money of 1.2 million US dollars. Neuville made another final table at the 2016 WSOP , finishing No Limit Hold'em 6-handed in second place for more than $ 200,000.

Altogether, Neuville has earned more than 4.5 million US dollars with poker in live tournaments, making it the second most successful Belgian poker player behind Davidi Kitai .

Web links

Commons : Pierre Neuville  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Pierre Neuville in the database of the Global Poker Index, accessed on January 15, 2016 (English).
  2. ↑ Pierre Neuville à cinq jours des championnats du monde de poker: “J'ai lu La Nouvelle Gazette de Charleroi toute ma vie” on lanouvellegazette.be of November 3, 2015, accessed on January 15, 2016 (French).
  3. ↑ a b "The Best is yet to come" - The eventful life of Pierre Neuville on pokerolymp.com from July 20, 2015, accessed on January 15, 2016 ..
  4. ↑ Pierre Neuville in the World Series of Poker database, accessed January 15, 2016.
  5. ↑ 39th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2008 ($ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 17, 2016.
  6. ↑ EPT - 5 - Sanremo (€ 5,000 + 250 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on January 15, 2016 (English).
  7. ↑ EPT - 6 - Vilamoura (€ 5,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on January 15, 2016 (English).
  8. ↑ EPT - 8 - Copenhagen (DKr 35,000 + 2,250 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on January 15, 2016 (English).
  9. ↑ 45th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2014 ($ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em - Six Handed (Event # 24)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on January 15, 2016 (English).
  10. ↑ November Nine 2015 - Who are the players at the final table in the WSOP Main Event? on pokerolymp.com on July 15, 2015, accessed January 15, 2016.
  11. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event (Event # 68)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on January 15, 2016 (English).
  12. ↑ 47th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2016 ($ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed (Event # 10)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on June 11, 2016.
  13. ↑ Pierre Neuville in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 15, 2016.
  14. ↑ Belgium All Time Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 8, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Neuville, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES columbo (nickname); The Serial Qualifier (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian poker player and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Mont-sur-Marchienne , Charleroi , Belgium