Soraya Homam

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Soraya Homam
  Personal information  
Date of birth December 11, 1961
place of birth GermanyGermany St. Ingbert
date of death August 21, 2011
Nickname Bibidel
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 050,000 $
Total prize money $ 180,590

Soraya Homam (born December 11, 1961 in St. Ingbert ; † August 21, 2011 ) was a professional German - Iranian poker player . She was the sister of the Hamburg celebrity make-up artist Reza Homam . Her nickname in the poker scene was Bibidel ( Persian بى بى دل, in German: Herzdame).

biography

Homam grew up in the Westerwald and learned the profession of midwife there . She discovered her enthusiasm for games with a strategic background at the age of 13 when she joined the chess working group of her school and later won several chess tournaments. She then worked as a chess trainer.

She had her first encounter with the game of poker in the early 1990s; The parallel to the game of chess was one of the motivations for her to pursue a professional career as a poker player.

successes

Her first big success was winning the European Holdem Championship 2000 in the variant Pot Limit Hold'em in Baden-Baden in June 2000, for which she received 51,615 German marks . With third place at the Party Poker German Open in November 2007 in London , she was able to achieve another success (profit: 20,000 English pounds, the equivalent of 41,337 US dollars ). Her greatest success was winning the Partypoker Women's World Open II in London in October 2008. For her victory in the field of 32 players, she received 50,000 US dollars.

In total, Homam has made more than $ 180,000 in poker playing live tournaments.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Soraya Homam died on pokernews.com on September 23, 2011, accessed on January 6, 2020.
  2. ↑ Soraya Homam, obituary notice in the Rhein-Zeitung of September 24, 2011, accessed on January 6, 2020.
  3. ↑ European Holdem Championship 2000 (DM 2,000 Pot Limit Holdem) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on January 6, 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ Partypoker.com Women's World Open II ($ 3,000 Final) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed September 30, 2017.
  5. ↑ Soraya Homam in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed January 6, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Homam, Soraya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bibidel (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Iranian poker player
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Ingbert , Saarland , Germany
DATE OF DEATH August 21, 2011