Sebastian Ruthenberg

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Sebastian Ruthenberg
Sebastian Ruthenberg (2008)
Sebastian Ruthenberg (2008)
  Personal information  
Date of birth February 6, 1984
place of birth GermanyGermany Hamburg
Nickname Luckbox
Nickname
tactless47PokerStars & Full Tilt Poker
place of residence GermanyGermany Hamburg
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money $ 1,941,401
Total prize money $ 3,476,684
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 1
Cashes 7th
Best main event 55th ( 2011 )
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 1
  Main event of the European Poker Tour  
title 1
Cashes 9
Last updated: February 9, 2020

Sebastian Ruthenberg (born February 6, 1984 in Hamburg ) is a former professional German poker player and e-athlete . He is nicknamed Luckbox .

E-sports

In 2003 Ruthenberg played the soccer computer game FIFA for pod virtual gaming and took fourth place in the final of the ESL Pro Series III .

poker

Ruthenberg started playing poker in 2005 and recorded his first success, first online , where he among the nicknames taktloss47 and miamivice over 100,000 US dollars won.

At the German Poker Open 2006 in London , the third major tournament of his career, he was also able to demonstrate his live poker skills and took first place for 50,000  euros in prize money. After several placements and victories in smaller tournaments, Ruthenberg came third at the main event of the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Dortmund in March 2007 and received 220,000 euros for it. At the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas , he won the World Championship in the Seven Card Stud Hi / Lo variant in mid-June 2008 . The win earned him more than $ 300,000 and a bracelet . His so far highest endowed victory with a prize money of more than 1.3 million euros he achieved at the main event of the EPT on September 15, 2008 in Barcelona , which he won heads-up against the Irishman Fintan Gavin . In November 2011 he took part in the IFP Nations Cup for Germany with the German Poker Sports Association . With the team that u. a. consisted of players like Moritz Kranich , Sandra Naujoks or Tobias Reinkemeier under the direction of Stephan Kalhamer , Ruthenberg won the title. Ruthenberg won his last live prize money to date at the WSOP Main Event in early July 2015 .

In total, Ruthenberg has earned almost $ 3.5 million in poker in live tournaments. He was sponsored by the online poker platform PokerStars from April 2008 and was a member of the PokerStars Pro-German team .

Web links

Commons : Sebastian Ruthenberg  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Partypoker.com German Open (Grand Final) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 28, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ EPT - 3 - Dortmund (€ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 28, 2018 (English).
  3. ↑ 39th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2008 ($ 5,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud Hi / Lo) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 28, 2018.
  4. ↑ EPT - 5 - Barcelona (€ 8,000 + 250 No Limit Hold'em - EPT Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on December 28, 2018 (English).
  5. ↑ The Nations Cup (No Limit Hold'em - Duplicate Poker *) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on January 4, 2020 (English).
  6. ↑ 46th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2015 ($ 10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event (Event # 68)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 28, 2018.
  7. ↑ Sebastian Ruthenberg in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed December 28, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Ruthenberg, Sebastian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luckbox (nickname); taktloss47 (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German e-athlete and poker player
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg , Germany