Thomas Mühlöcker

Thomas Mühlöcker
Thomas Mühlöcker (2018)
Personal information
Date of birth	March 29, 1987
place of birth	Vienna
Nicknames 0 0	WushuTMPokerStars & 888poker TenkamusouFull Tilt Poker onehundredeyespartypoker
place of residence	Vienna
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money	$ 1,277,436
Total prize money	$ 7,545,333
World Series of Poker
Bracelets	no
Cashes	24
Best main event	509th ( 2010 )
Main Event of the World Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	1
Main event of the European Poker Tour
title	no
Cashes	6th
Main Event of the PokerStars Championship
title	no
Cashes	1
Main Event of party poker Live
title	no
Cashes	2
Last updated: June 7, 2020

Thomas Ryō Mühlöcker (born March 29, 1987 in Vienna ) is a professional Austrian poker player .

Personal

Mühlöcker grew up as the son of a Japanese mother and an Austrian father in Vienna . He trained the Chinese martial art Wushu for several years . He lived with the poker players Martin Finger and Kilian Kramer in a shared apartment in Vienna and studied there at the University of Economics and Business . In November 2015, Mühlöcker was, alongside Kramer, one of the two main characters in the documentary In der Schwebe , which was broadcast as part of the small television game on ZDF . For this purpose, the Cologne filmmaker Miguel Müller-Frank had accompanied the two poker players Mühlöcker and Kramer for a year and a half at some events on the European Poker Tour . Mühlöcker is in a relationship with Ana Márquez , a Spanish poker player.

Poker career

Career

Mühlöcker started playing poker with his brother . He plays online under the nicknames WushuTM ( PokerStars and 888poker ) , Tenkamusou ( Full Tilt Poker ) and onehundredeyes ( partypoker ) . On PokerStars , Mühlöcker qualified in a tournament with a $ 33 buy-in for the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) on Paradise Island in the Bahamas , which was his first major live tournament. Overall, his income from online poker tournaments is over $ 8.5 million, with the majority of nearly $ 6 million being won on PokerStars .

Since March 2010, Mühlöcker has been represented more frequently at renowned live tournaments. At the Main Event of the World Series of Poker in early July 2010 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas , he landed in 509th place and won prize money of almost 30,000 US dollars. At the Vienna Poker Festival of the World Poker Tour in October 2012, Mühlöcker took second place for more than 40,000 euros . In September 2013, by winning the High Roller of the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Barcelona , he secured a prize of almost 400,000 euros. At the end of April 2015, Mühlöcker finished sixth in the Super High Roller at the EPT in Monte-Carlo and again received more than 400,000 euros in prize money. At the high roller event of the PokerStars Championship in Monte-Carlo in early May 2017, he finished third and received over 470,000 euros. At the beginning of November 2017, Mühlöcker finished fourth in the € 111,111 High Roller for One Drop of the World Series of Poker Europe at King's Resort in Rozvadov and received his highest prize money to date of more than € 1 million. In mid-July 2018, he won the Bellagio Cup at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas and received prize money of just under 350,000 US dollars due to a deal with Pavel Plesuv . In January 2019, Mühlöcker finished third in the PCA High Roller in the Bahamas and secured prize money of more than 400,000 US dollars. He also finished third about two weeks later in the A $ 50,000 Challenge of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship in Melbourne for more than 400,000 Australian dollars .

In total, Mühlöcker has earned more than 7.5 million US dollars with poker in live tournaments , making him the second most successful Austrian poker player after Matthias Eibinger .

Prize money overview

year	Prize money (in $ )	Tournament victories
2010	0.028,688	-
2011	0.00.7257	-
2012	0.059,893	-
2013	1,019,561	1
2014	0.376.020	1
2015	1,251,195	-
2016	0.173,444	-
2017	2,445,863	2
2018	1,376,875	2
2019	0.797.878	-
2020	0.00.8660	-
total	7,545,333	6th

Web links

Commons : Thomas Mühlöcker  - Collection of Images

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ EPT 11 Malta Main Event - Day 1a players - The European Poker Tour , accessed on September 6, 2016 (xls; English).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Interview with Thomas Mühlöcker on poker-peggau.at, accessed on November 25, 2015.
3. ↑ ^{a b} In der Schwebe ( Memento from November 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on November 25, 2015.
4. ↑ Manuela Tomic: Motionless . Article on Zeit Online from December 11, 2017 (= ZEIT Austria No. 51/2017), accessed on January 27, 2019.
5. ↑ "During the game you have to forget that there is a lot of money involved" on zeit.de from December 11, 2017, accessed on March 5, 2018.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Dattebayo in the PocketFives database, accessed on November 21, 2017 (English).
7. ↑ ^{a b} Thomas Mühlöcker in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 25, 2015 (English).
8. ↑ 41st World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2010 ($ 10,000 World Championship - No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 25, 2015.
9. ↑ Vienna Poker Festival - WPT National (€ 1,100 No Limit Hold'em - WPT National) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 25, 2015 (English).
10. ↑ EPT - 10 - ESPT - 4 - Barcelona (€ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller Re-Entry) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 25, 2015.
11. ↑ EPT - 11 - FPS - 5 - Grand Final (€ 98,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller (Event # 14)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 25, 2015 (English).
12. ↑ PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino (€ 25,750 No Limit Hold'em - PokerStars Championship High Roller Eight Max (Event 57)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on May 6, 2017 (English).
13. ↑ 2017 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) (€ 111,111 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller for One Drop (Event # 10)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on November 6, 2017 (English).
14. ↑ Bellagio Cup XIV ($ 10,000 + 400 No Limit Hold'em - Bellagio Cup XIV) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on July 19, 2018 (English).
15. ↑ PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) 2019 ($ 25,000 No Limit Hold'em - PCA High Roller (Event # 33)) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on January 17, 2019.
16. ↑ 2019 Aussie Millions Poker Championship (A $ 48,500 + 1,500 No Limit Hold'em - Challenge # 12) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on January 30, 2019.
17. ↑ Austria All Time Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed on January 17, 2019 (English).