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The 50th Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) kicks off today with $500 buy-in Event #1: Casino Employees Event. The tournament is open to those who either work in casinos or in the gaming industry, and thanks to their sportsbook in New Jersey, DraftKings personnel are permitted to play.
They’ll be well represented in their first year of eligibility as a team of six players traveled from the East Coast to compete for the summer’s first bracelet. PokerNews caught up with each DraftKings employee – one of which is already a WSOP bracelet winner – talk about the opening event of the 2019 WSOP.
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Jonathan Aguiar
Age: 35
DraftKings Position: Senior Advisor for High Stakes Gaming
Jonathan Aguiar is no stranger to poker, though it’s been awhile since he’s been at the felt. By his own count, the Casino Employee Event will be just his third tournament in the last three years. That’s because he’s been focused on his career with DraftKings, which he pursued full time after giving up poker back in 2013.
“I’m focusing on making DraftKings Casino and Sportsbook the best place to play for those looking for the most action,” said Aguiar. “I used to play a little poker back in the day but these days I’m more likely to be golfing.”
It wasn’t always that way for Aguiar, who has more than $1.6 million in lifetime earnings. That includes a career-best $336,661 for winning the 2012 WSOP Europe Event #5: €10,000 Mixed Max for his first and thus far only gold bracelet. Not too shabby for a guy who learned the game from a pair of nicknamed Canadians.
“Back in 2002, as a freshman in college, I lived across the hall from a pair of 22-year-old Canadian junior hockey age-outs that went by ‘Luck’ and ‘Carpy,’” Aguiar explained. “They were able to buy beer and hosted games in their room. One day Carpy showed me the old
pokerroom.com flash poker site where you could get a free $5 to sign up and that was that.”
While Aguiar is the odds-on favorite to do the best among the DraftKings team, he did offer a guess as to who he thinks will go the deepest.
“Probably Sumanth because he’s a giant nit and going to make Day 2 with three big blinds.”
| Dominik Nitsche | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Bounatirou (PokerStars), JustLuck1337 (Full Tilt) |
| World Series of Poker | |
| Bracelet(s) | 4 |
| Money finish(es) | 33 |
| Highest ITM Main Event finish | 195th, 2017 |
| World Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | 1 |
| Final table(s) | 3 |
| Money finish(es) | 6 |
| European Poker Tour | |
| Title(s) | None |
| Final table(s) | None |
| Money finish(es) | 6 |
| Information accurate as of 5 November 2017. | |
Dominik Nitsche (born 1990) is a professional poker player, originally from Minden, Germany but now residing in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Poker career In both 2001 and 2002, he was Card Player Magazine's tournament Player of the Year, winning four World Series of Poker titles, and a World Poker Open Championship title. 5 In November 2004, he won the inaugural Professional Poker Tour event at the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut.
Nitsche began playing poker online in 2006, amassing winnings exceeding $3 million.[1] In 2009, playing in his first live poker tournament, he won a Latin American Poker Tour event in Mar del Plata, Argentina, earning $381,000. In 2012 he won his first World Series of Poker bracelet, outlasting a field of 4,620 in a $1,000 No Limit Hold'em tournament and earning $654,000. Later that same year he won a World Poker Tour title in South Africa. The next year he made the final table of the same tournament before finishing in 4th place.
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In 2014 Nitsche added two WSOP bracelets. First, he won the WSOP National Championship for $352,000. He then won another $1,000 NLHE tournament, becoming at age 23 the youngest player to win 3 bracelets (Phil Ivey was 26 when he won his third).[2] He also made the final table of the WSOP Europe Main Event in 2013, finishing in 3rd place.
At the 2017 WSOPE Nitsche won his fourth bracelet in the €111,111 High Roller for One Drop event. The prize of €3,487,463 ($4,064,000) was his largest career cash.[3]
As of 2018, his live tournament winnings exceed $14,600,000. His 33 WSOP cashes equal $6,280,000 of those earnings.
World Series of Poker Bracelets[edit]
| Year | Tournament | Prize (US$) |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | $1,000 No Limit Hold'em | $654,797 |
| 2014 | $10,000 WSOP National Championship | $352,800 |
| 2014 | $1,000 No Limit Hold'em | $335,659 |
| 2017E | €111,111 High Roller for One Drop No Limit Hold'em | €3,487,463 |
An 'E' following a year denotes bracelet(s) won at the World Series of Poker Europe
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Notes[edit]
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- ^http://www.pocketfives.com/profiles/bounatirouimo/
- ^http://www.pokernews.com/news/2014/06/rapid-reaction-dominik-nitsche-18493.htm
- ^Fast, Erik (5 November 2017). 'Dominik Nitsche Wins 2017 World Series of Poker Europe $111,111 One Drop High Roller'. CardPlayer.com. Retrieved 5 November 2017.