Pratyush Buddiga

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Pratyush Buddiga
  Personal information  
Date of birth May 11, 1989
Country of birth New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand
place of residence United StatesUnited States Colorado Springs
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 1,000,000
Total prize money $ 6,484,299
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 17th
Best main event 613th ( 2011 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 3
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 5
  Main Event of the PokerStars Championship  
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Cashes 1
Last updated: August 24, 2020

Pratyush Buddiga (born May 11, 1989 in New Zealand ) is a professional American poker player .

Personal

Buddiga left Wellington for California with his Indian parents when he was five . He lived there for two years before moving to Colorado Springs . In 2002, at the age of 13, Buddiga won the Scripps National Spelling Bee for $ 12,000 and a scholarship. He later studied economics at Duke University and graduated in 2011. Buddiga lives in Colorado Springs.

Poker career

Buddiga has been participating in renowned live tournaments since 2010 .

In June 2011 he 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 four tournaments of the No Limit Hold'em variant . a. he finished 613th in the main event . In mid-April 2012, he finished eighth at the main event of the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Berlin and secured prize money of 72,000 euros . At the beginning of June 2013, he also finished eighth at the main event of the GuangDong Asia Millions in Macau and received the equivalent of 770,000 US dollars. In February 2014, Buddiga won a Fallsview Poker Classic event in Niagara Falls with a prize of over $ 220,000. At the beginning of November 2014, he finished in third place at the super high roller event of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour in Macau, worth the equivalent of just under 850,000 US dollars. A month later, Buddiga won the first Aria High Roller at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas and received almost $ 550,000 for it. At the end of August 2016, he won an EPT side event in Barcelona with a buy-in of 25,500 euros and thus secured a prize of almost 700,000 euros. At the Super High Roller Bowl at Aria Resort & Casino, Buddiga reached the final table in late May 2017 and finished the tournament in sixth place, earning him $ 1 million in prize money. His last live money placement to date was in June 2017 at the 2017 WSOP .

In total, Buddiga has earned almost 6.5 million US dollars with poker in live tournaments.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ EPT10 Barcelona ME total players , accessed April 6, 2017 (English; xls).
  2. ↑ a b A Poker Life: Pratyush Buddiga on cardplayer.com from December 14, 2014, accessed on April 6, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c d Pratyush Buddiga in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 6, 2017 (English).
  4. ↑ 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2011 ($ 10,000 World Championship - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 6, 2017.
  5. ↑ EPT - 8 - Berlin (€ 5,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 6, 2017 (English).
  6. ↑ GuangDong Asia Millions (HK $ 1,000,000 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 6, 2017.
  7. ↑ 2014 Fallsview Poker Classic (C $ 2,300 + 200 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 6, 2017 (English).
  8. ↑ APPT 2014 Asia Championship of Poker (HK $ 500,000 Super High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 6, 2017.
  9. ↑ Aria High Roller 1 ($ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 6, 2017.
  10. ↑ EPT - 13 - ESPT - 7 - Barcelona (€ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - Single Re-Entry 8 Handed (Event # 33)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 6, 2017.
  11. ↑ $ 300,000 Super High Roller Bowl Payouts on pokernews.com, accessed June 1, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Buddiga, Pratyush
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH New Zealand