Roger Teska
Roger Teska | |
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Roger Teska (2019) |
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Personal information | |
Date of birth | April 29, 1985 |
Nickname |
term_PokerStars & Full Tilt Poker
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place of residence | Marina del Rey |
Live Poker Tournament Achievements | |
Highest prize money | $ 2,000,000 |
Total prize money | $ 3,390,694 |
World Series of Poker | |
Bracelets | no |
Cashes | 9 |
Best main event | 115th ( 2017 ) |
Main Event of the World Poker Tour | |
title | 1 |
Cashes | 3 |
Main event of the European Poker Tour | |
title | no |
Cashes | 2 |
Main Event of party poker Live | |
title | 1 |
Cashes | 1 |
Last updated: July 24, 2020 |
Roger G. Teska (born April 29, 1985 ) is a professional American poker player .
Personal
Teska studied at Indiana University in Bloomington . He lives in Marina del Rey .
Poker career
Teska started playing poker during his freshman year at university. He earned more than 200,000 US dollars with tournament poker on the online poker platforms PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker under the nickname term_ . Teska has been taking part in renowned live tournaments since 2006 .
Teska won his first live cash prize at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event in early January 2006 in the Bahamas , where he finished 29th, worth $ 16,900. In June 2007 he was successful for the first time at the World Series of Poker in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and came in the money in a tournament of the No Limit Hold'em variant . In mid-July 2009, Teska won the Bellagio Cup at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas and secured a prize of over 25,000 US dollars. In May 2011, he reached the final table at the same place at the Main Event of the World Poker Tour (WPT) and finished the tournament in fourth for around 370,000 US dollars. At the end of January 2018, Teska finished sixth in the A $ 25,000 Challenge of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne , which was paid for with more than 120,000 Australian dollars . In November 2018 he won the Millions World of the partypoker Caribbean Poker Party in the Bahamas. For this, Teska prevailed against 393 other players and received a prize of 2 million US dollars. At the end of July 2019, he also won the WPT Main Event in Los Angeles and secured the main prize of just under 370,000 US dollars.
In total, Teska has earned just under 3.5 million US dollars from poker in live tournaments.
Web links
- Roger Teska in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
- Roger Teska in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
- Roger Teska in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)
- Roger Teska in the database of Pocket Fives (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b term_ in the PocketFives database, accessed on November 11, 2019.
- ↑ a b Perils of poker on problemgambling.com from October 16, 2004, accessed on November 11, 2019.
- ↑ a b Roger Teska in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 11, 2019.
- ↑ PCA - 2006 ($ 7,800 WPT - Main Event - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 11, 2019.
- ↑ 38th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2007 ($ 1,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 11, 2019.
- ↑ Bellagio Cup V ($ 500 + 40 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 11, 2019.
- ↑ Ninth Annual Five Star World Poker Classic ($ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Championship) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 11, 2019.
- ↑ 2018 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 24,000 + 1,000 No Limit Hold'em - $ 25,000 Challenge (Event # 9)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 11, 2019.
- ↑ partypoker Caribbean Poker Party ($ 25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold'em - Millions World) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 11, 2019.
- ↑ World Poker Tour - WPT Gardens Poker Festival ($ 4,700 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - WPT Gardens Festival Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed November 11, 2019.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Teska, Roger |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Teska, Roger G. (full name); term_ (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American poker player |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1985 |