European Poker Championship

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The Poker Championship , shortly Poker Championship is a tournament series that once a year by Casinos Austria in Velden is discharged. At the tournaments, the respective European champions are played in different poker variants .

history

The European Poker Championship was played for the first time in 1990 in Baden, Lower Austria, near Vienna . It also took place there in 1991 and consistently from 1995 to 2014. 1992 and 1994 were played in Graz , 1993 in Innsbruck . The European Poker Championship has been held at Casino Velden am Wörthersee since 2015 . At the beginning of the series, only the European champion in Seven Card Stud was played. In 2008 a European Championship in No Limit Hold'em was offered for the first time and Sandra Naujoks was crowned the first female European champion of this variant. In 2010, Pot Limit Omaha replaced the European Championship in Seven Card Stud , which is now being offered again. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, no European championship was played for the first time since 1990.

Grand Casino Baden : Venue in 1990, 1991 and from 1995 to 2014

Casino Velden : venue since 2015

Previous European champions

The buy-ins and prize money were converted into euros even before the Austrian schilling was abolished in 2002 .

Seven Card Stud

Phil Hellmuth won the tournament in Seven Card Stud in 2000

year	Buy-in (in € )	Attendees	winner	origin	Prize money (in €)
1990	unknown		Peter Praxmair		unknown
1991	unknown		Hans Siderits		unknown
1992	unknown		Franz Vollstuber		unknown
1993	unknown		Eric de Bouet du Portal		unknown
1994	unknown		Lothar Landauer		036,576
1995	unknown		Kurt Pittel		unknown
1996	unknown		Tibor Tolnai		unknown
1997	unknown		Henry Nowakowski		152.616
1998	unknown	441	Xu Hong Sheng		128,700
1999	unknown	435	Paul Alterman		209,661
2000	unknown	438	Phil Hellmuth		128,695
2001	0290	396	Manfred Willi		126,593
2002	0290	356	Heinz Piroth		121,496
2003	0290	342	Raymond Brown		112,239
2004	0300	290	Theo Jørgensen		101,688
2005	0300	305	Jan Bitsch Pedersen		107,787
2006	0300	270	Vlado Sevo		082,243
2007	2500	156	Camilla Dennig		103.740
2008	2500	100	Fabrizio Leonardi		068,860
2009	2500	086	Richard Ashby		059,140
2015	0300	082	Qushqar Morad		015,550
2017	0440	064	Antonio Turrisi		010,020
2018	0440	047	Christian Schober		011,640
2019	0330	054	Antonio Turrisi		012,000

No Limit Hold'em

Sandra Naujoks became the first female European champion in No Limit Hold'em in 2008

year	Buy-in (in € )	Attendees	winner	origin	Prize money (in €)
2008	4000	164	Sandra Naujoks		174,500
2009	4000	189	Martin Kabrhel		190,320
2010	4000	155	Mihai Manole		160,800
2011	4000	145	Zoltán Szabó		150,425
2012	4000	132	Andrei One		140,450
2013	3000	117	Lasell King		092.035
2014	3000	147	Artur Koren		070,430
2015	4350	169	Simon Boss		182,600
2016	2700	237	Matthias Habernig		109,000
2017	2700	236	Simon Boss		120,000
2018	2700	250	Philipp Hartmann		150,000
2019	2700	240	Christian Rudolph		144,000

Pot Limit Omaha

year	Buy-in (in € )	Attendees	winner	origin	Prize money (in €)
2010	3000	85	Maurizio Guerra		72,675
2011	3000	58	Kimmo Kurko		52,900
2012	3000	57	Aubin Cazals		57,670
2014	2000	55	Kurt Yusuf		35,420
2015	2000	122	Josef Friedl		64,100
2016	1620	103	Jules Ayoub		34,420
2017	2160	135	Tomasz Sumek		75,600
2018	2160	124	Ivan Mairhofer		56,000
2019	2160	119	Zsolt Péntek		67,900

Web links

• European Championships since 2013 in the Hendon Mob Poker Database: 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} European Poker Championship 2013 - Who will win the title? on pokerfirma.com on October 23, 2013, accessed July 29, 2018.
2. ↑ Cancellation of CAPT Velden 2020 by Casinos Austria on hochgepokert.com on March 30, 2020, accessed on May 30, 2020.