Ryan Riess

Ryan Riess
Ryan Riess (2018)
Personal information
Date of birth	June 21, 1990
place of birth	East Lansing
Nickname	Riess the Beast
Nicknames 0 0	MrMaximizePokerStars, partypoker & Americas Cardroom Bitc0inWSOP.com Ryan RiessGGPoker
place of residence	Las Vegas
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	0$ 8,361,570
Total prize money	$ 14,993,143
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	1
Cashes	59
Best main event	Win ( 2013 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	1
Cashes	11
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	3
Main Event of the PokerStars Championship
title	no
Cashes	1
Main Event of party poker Live
title	no
Cashes	6th
Last updated: August 20, 2020

Ryan Thomas Riess (born June 21, 1990 in East Lansing , Michigan ) is a professional American poker player .

Riess has earned almost $ 15 million in poker in live tournaments . He won in 2013 the poker world championship and 2017, the Main Event of the World Poker Tour and is nicknamed Riess the Beast .

Personal

Riess completed a business degree from Michigan State University , which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 2012 . During his studies he worked as a poker dealer .

Poker career

Career

Riess has been playing online poker since February 2015 . He uses on the platforms PokerStars , Party Poker and Americas Cardroom nickname MrMaximize and plays at WSOP.com as Bitc0in . In addition, he uses his real name at GGPoker . With online poker tournament he has more than 1.5 million US dollars earned.

In October 2012, Riess landed in the money for the first time in a professional live poker tournament and came second in the main event of the World Series of Poker circuit tournament in Hammond , which earned him prize money of almost 240,000 US dollars. In June 2013 he was successful for the first time in the main tournament series of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and came in the money in three tournaments of the No Limit Hold'em variant . He then played the main event and reached the final table with the fifth largest chip stack , which was played in November 2013. There Riess won the final heads-up against Jay Farber on November 5, 2013 after 261 hands . For the success, Riess received prize money of almost 8.5 million US dollars and a bracelet . In mid-February 2016, he finished sixth at the high roller event of the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Dublin, worth almost 100,000 euros . In the run-up to the final table for the main event of the WSOP 2016 , Riess coached the poker player Cliff Josephy , who took third place. In early April 2017, Riess won the Main Event of the World Poker Tour in Hollywood , Florida , with a prize money of over 700,000 US dollars. At the 2017 WSOP , he finished third in the Heads-Up Championship for more than $ 110,000. At the end of August 2017, the American won a PokerStars Championship (PSC) event in Barcelona , the main prize of which was 155,500 euros after a deal . At the World Series of Poker Europe played in the King's Resort in Rozvadov , he finished fourth in the high roller in early November 2017 and received around 230,000 euros. A month later, he took second place with a PSC high roller in Prague and received just under 280,000 euros due to a deal. In mid-August 2018, Riess won a tournament at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open in Hollywood with a prize of almost 240,000 US dollars. Two weeks later he finished fourth at an EPT event in Barcelona and received prize money of almost 350,000 euros. At the beginning of November 2018, Riess reached the final table of the main event of the WSOP Europe in Rozvadov and took fourth place, which was paid for almost 340,000 euros. In February 2019, he finished second in the ninth event of the US Poker Open at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas and secured $ 492,000. At the beginning of May 2019, Riess reached the final table at the EPT main event in Monte-Carlo . There he took fourth place, endowed with around 265,000 euros, and made a correct call with 10 , which in March 2020 was honored with a Global Poker Award as “People's Choice for Hand of the Year 2019” .

Prize money overview

year	Prize money (in $ )	Tournament victories
2012	00.239.063	-
2013	08,440,813	1
2014	00.057,900	-
2015	00.259,586	1
2016	00.269,412	-
2017	01,810,957	2
2018	02.220.159	2
2019	01,687,395	-
2020	00.00.7857	-
total	14,993,143	6th

Web links

Commons : Ryan Riess  - Collection of Images

• Ryan Riess in the Hendon Mob Poker Database (English)
• Ryan Riess in the database of the Global Poker Index (English)
• Ryan Riess in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)
• Ryan Riess in the database of Pocket Fives (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ryan Riess in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 8, 2017.
2. ↑ MrMaximize in the PocketFives database, accessed on August 20, 2020.
3. ↑ WSOP Circuit - Hammond ($ 1,675 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 8, 2017.
4. ↑ 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event November Nine: Ryan Riess on pokernews.com November 2, 2013, accessed April 22, 2018.
5. ↑ 44th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2013 ($ 10,000 World Championship - No Limit Hold'em (Event # 62)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 8, 2017.
6. ↑ EPT - 12 - UKIPT - 5 - Dublin (€ 10,000 + 300 # 54 No Limit Hold'em High Roller - 8 Handed) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 22, 2018 (English).
7. ↑ WSOP Main Event heads-up match delivers giant contrast in styles and plenty of fireworks on pokerzone.com on November 2, 2016, accessed on July 5, 2020.
8. ↑ Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale (Event # 23)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed April 8, 2017.
9. ↑ 48th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2017 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em - Heads-Up Championship (Event # 15)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 22, 2018 (English).
10. ↑ PokerStars Championship Barcelona (€ 10,200 No Limit Hold'em # 45) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 22, 2018 (English).
11. ↑ 2017 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) (€ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller (Event # 9)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 22, 2018 (English).
12. ↑ PokerStars Championship Prague (€ 25,500 No Limit Hold'em - 8 Handed (Event # 21)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on April 22, 2018 (English).
13. ↑ 2018 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 25)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 16, 2018.
14. ↑ European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona (€ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event # 17)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on August 29, 2018 (English).
15. ↑ 2018 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) (€ 10,000 + 350 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event (Event # 10)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 2, 2018 (English).
16. ↑ 2019 US Poker Open ($ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - USPO # 09 50K NLH (Event # 9)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 23, 2019.
17. ↑ European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo (€ 5,300 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event (Event # 15)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 5, 2019 (English).
18. ↑ The Global Poker Awards 2019 are given on pokerfirma.com on March 7, 2020, accessed on March 7, 2020.