Stefan Huber (poker player)

Stefan Huber
Personal information
Year of birth	1986
Nicknames 0 0 0	I'am_SoundPokerStars Echo mousepartypoker YrrsiNFull Tilt Poker & partypoker IFkYourmindTitanPoker
place of residence	Zurich
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	at least 0 '$ 735,217
Total prize money	at least $ 2,646,586
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	no
Cashes	12
Best main event	51st ( 2011 )
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	6th
Main Event of the PokerStars Championship
title	no
Cashes	2
Last updated: January 4, 2020

Stefan Huber (* 1986 ) is a professional Swiss poker player .

Personal

Huber comes from and lives in Zurich . He is part of the charity project Raising for Effective Giving, which is based on the principles of effective altruism , and regularly donates part of his tournament winnings to the movement.

Poker career

Huber plays online under the nicknames I'am_Sound ( PokerStars ) , Echomaus ( partypoker ) , YrrsiN ( Full Tilt Poker and partypoker ) and IFkYourmind (TitanPoker) . His tournament winnings at PokerStars be in excess of three million dollars , he also has more than a million dollars in cashes at Full Tilt have. Huber secured his highest ever online tournament prize money in mid-May 2015 when he finished second at an event of the Spring Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars for more than 250,000 dollars. Since 2009 he has also been taking part in renowned live tournaments.

At the end of February 2009, Huber won a Bregenz Open tournament with a prize money of almost 40,000 euros , making it his first ever live tournament. In January 2010, he won an event as part of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventures (PCA) in the Bahamas and received prize money of around 300,000 dollars. The end of June 2010 Huber was the first time in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas successful and died in a tournament variant No-Limit Hold'em in the money. At the 2011 WSOP , he finished as the best Swiss in the main event in 51st place out of 6,865 players for more than 160,000 dollars in prize money. In mid-January 2012, Huber finished third in a PCA high roller and received almost $ 200,000 after a deal with Shawn Buchanan and Andrew Chen . At the end of March 2012, Huber won a tournament as part of the European Poker Tour in Sanremo for just under 100,000 euros. In July 2015, he finished third at the main event of the European Poker Championship in Velden am Wörther See and secured around 75,000 euros. In early February 2018, Huber reached the final table at the main event of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne . With three remaining participants, he negotiated a deal with the other players Espen Solaas and Toby Lewis , which secured Huber over 900,000 Australian dollars , which was around 735,000 US dollars at the time. He then took second place.

Overall, Huber has earned at least $ 2.5 million from poker in live tournaments.

Web links

• Stefan Huber in the database of the World Series of Poker (English)
• Stefan Huber in the pokernews.com database
• Stefan Huber in the database of Pocket Fives (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Robin Hoods of Poker on tagesanzeiger.ch from November 15, 2014, accessed on February 23, 2018.
2. ↑ IamSound in the PocketFives database, accessed on February 23, 2018.
3. ↑ SCOOP-23-H: $ 2,100 NL Hold'em, $ 1M Gtd in the PocketFives database, accessed February 23, 2018.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Stefan Huber ( Memento from February 27, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 23, 2018 (English).
5. ↑ 2009 CAPT Bregenz Open (€ 800 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 23, 2018 (English).
6. ↑ PCA - 2010 ($ 5,000 + 250 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 23, 2018.
7. ↑ 41st World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2010 ($ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 23, 2018.
8. ↑ 42nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2011 ($ 10,000 World Championship - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 23, 2018.
9. ↑ PCA - 2012 ($ 10,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em 6 Max - High Roller) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 23, 2018.
10. ↑ EPT - 8 - Campione (€ 2,000 + 150 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 23, 2018 (English).
11. ↑ 26th Poker EM Casino Velden (€ 4,350 No Limit Hold'em - Poker EM Velden Main Event) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 23, 2018 (English).
12. ↑ 2018 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 10,000 + 600 No Limit Hold'em - Main Event (Event # 11)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on February 23, 2018.