Ronny Kaiser

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Ronny Kaiser
  Personal information  
Year of birth 1990
Nickname
1-ronnyr3PokerStars
place of residence SwitzerlandSwitzerland Bern
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money at least 0 '$ 867,297
Total prize money at least $ 2,041,541
World Series of Poker
Bracelets no
Cashes 1
Best main event 140th ( 2012 )
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
title 1
Cashes 4th
Last updated: August 3, 2020

Ronny Christopher Kaiser (* 1990 ) is a professional Swiss poker player . He was the only Swiss so far to win the main event of the European Poker Tour .

Personal

Kaiser comes from Bern and attended the free grammar school there . He is studying at the University of Bern .

Poker career

Kaiser plays on the online poker platform PokerStars under the nickname 1-ronnyr3 . Since 2008 he has been taking part in renowned live tournaments .

At the beginning of August 2011 Kaiser won the main event of the European Poker Tour as the first and so far only Swiss . He prevailed against 281 other players in Tallinn and secured a prize of 275,000 euros . In July 2012 , 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 took 140th place in the main event, worth more than 50,000 US dollars . At the end of August 2017, Kaiser won the high roller event of the PokerStars Championship in Barcelona and received a prize of 735,000 euros due to a deal with Markus Dürnegger and Benjamin Pollak .

Overall, Kaiser has earned at least $ 2 million from poker in live tournaments. In addition, Kaiser played several times on the German poker show German High Roller , which is broadcast on Sport1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b EPT Tallinn - Ronny Kaiser becomes the first Swiss EPT winner! ( January 16, 2016 memento in the Internet Archive ) on pokerolymp.com August 7, 2011, accessed on January 16, 2016.
  2. a b Berner is playing poker for millions on bernerzeitung.ch from April 5, 2014, accessed on January 16, 2016.
  3. 1-ronnyr3 on Pokerstars on highstakesdb.com, accessed on June 15, 2017.
  4. a b Ronny Kaiser ( memento from March 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on January 16, 2016 (English).
  5. Ronny Kaiser in the World Series of Poker database, accessed on August 3, 2020.
  6. Ronny Kaiser picks up the € 10,300 High Roller in Barcelona on pokernews.com on August 28, 2017, accessed on August 3, 2020.
  7. German High Roller - New episodes and airtimes on pokerfirma.com from November 21, 2017, accessed on August 3, 2020.