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Hey, it’s a day of the week and partypoker has added yet another player to its list of sponsored pros. Pokiez mobile. This time it is German poker player Philipp Gruissem, also known as “philbort” online. Gruissem only started playing poker nine years ago, got hooked when he won a tournament for $200, and is now a poker playing fiend, having won approximately one gazillion dollars.

Philipp Gruissem currently sits in seventh place on Germany’s all-time poker money list with $11,031,639 in live tournament winnings. (Image: Mickey May/Partypoker). Play jammin jars slot free. Philipp Gruissem is a young poker player who made his first live event cash in 2009. In the first 2 years, he had cashed 6 times, made 5 final tables, won 3 events, and earned close to $1.5 million. He has also been a successful online poker player, earning over $2 million.

“I feel great about joining partypoker!” Gruissem said on the partypoker blog. “They are now bringing healthy competition back into the market and partypoker has a new and fresh vibe that will grow our poker community.”

According to PocketFives.com, Gruissem has won more than $3.5 million in online poker tournaments, though it could be more, as those results are only from tournaments the site tracks with the screennames Gruissem provides. He is currently 423rd in PocketFives’ rankings, though he peaked at 23rd in 2010.

On the live tournament side, Gruissem has amassed more than $11 million in earnings, his best live cash coming in 2013 when he won the WPT Alpha8 £100,000 No-Limit Hold’em event for $1,379,840. In April 2014, he won almost exactly the same amount ($1,378,059) for taking the title in the EPT Grand Final €25,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller 8 Max.

If you look up and down Gruissem’s resume at TheHendonMob.com, you can see that theses sorts of high roller events are his specialty. Gruissem has yet to win a World Series of Poker or World Poker Tour title, though.

“I am honored that Philipp has agreed to join us at partypoker,” said partypoker Managing Director Tom Waters. “Philipp is such a well-respected player both in the German and global poker community that he is a perfect fit to join the team. He also has a great character and experience and will bring something a little different to the team.”

Gruissem is one of the four co-founders of Raising for Effective Giving (REG), a charitable organization which practices “effective altruism” in an effort to (put way too simply) target charities that can help the most people per dollar donated and in areas where those dollars can be used most efficiently. Gruissem founded the organization with fellow poker pros Liv Boeree, Igor Kurganov, and Stefan Huber.

Currently, Raising for Effective Giving targets three charitable causes: poverty alleviation, animal welfare, and risks from emerging technologies.

Gruissem has jumped right in to his relationship with partypoker, playing the Powerfest tournament series, which runs through this weekend. He plans on playing in the $5,200 buy-in event (wait…this is online poker, not the WSOP?) with a $1 million guaranteed prize pool on Sunday. That same day, he will make his first appearance as a partypoker ambassador in a live tournament when he plays in the MILLIONS Germany.

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Philipp Gruissem beasted through the field, applying all the pressure on the bubble and never relinquishing the chips he gathered at the 2017 PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino® €25,500 Single-Day High Roller.

Gruissem was the official winner who received the trophy, but Steve O'Dwyer walked away with the biggest paycheck as he had more chips when the deal was made.

Gruissem, however, was the one getting the richest from the tournament because he was in for a single bullet while O'Dwyer had fired four.

A total of 58 players entered, together with the 27 reentries that made for a field of 85 playing for a €2,082,500 prize pool.

With just 30 minutes per level and the option to buy back in when busted, the action was fierce from the get-go. Play got underway on a short delay, but as soon as cards were in the air, the chips were flying. When registration closed after eight levels, the clock mentioned 27 reentries. Dan Colman, Mike Watson, [Removed:17] and Erik Seidel all entered three times, but O'Dwyer was record holder with four entries.

While he was in for the most money, he also had the most chips in front of him when the tournament went on dinner break with 12 players remaining and 11 getting paid. Shortly after the players had returned, Rafael Moraes bubbled as his queen-jack failed to improve to a straight. Moraes had pushed his draw against the two-pair of Gruissem who had checked back the flop.

The bubble was a Brazilian, and his countryman Joao Simao was next to go. Simao lost with ace-seven suited to John Juanda's pocket eights. David Peters lost with pocket sixes to Gruissem's ace-king, forming the final table. With the busting of two players, Gruissem had the lead, having gained a lot of chips on the bubble.

What followed was a rapid execution of several players. They just about followed each other out the door on their way to the payout desk. Nick Petrangelo (queen-jack lost to ace-three) and Jason Mercier (ace-jack lost suited to sevens) both felt victim to Gruissem while Oliver Weis took care of Daniel Dvoress (ace-three lost to ace-ten) and Mikita Badziakouski (deuces lost to ace-king).

Weis had been short on the bubble but was suddenly a force to be reckoned with. In a sudden change of events, however, he was still the next to go. Juanda pushed with ace-king from the button, Weis reshoved with eights from the small blind and O'Dwyer called from the big blind with jacks to put them both at risk. Juanda made a straight and tripled up and O'Dwyer won the side pot with a set to Weis' unimproved pair of eights.

Justin Bonomo lost to Gruissem with king-queen suited to pocket fours and Juanda was sent to the rail as his king-queen failed to improve against the pocket eights of O'Dwyer.

Gruissem and O'Dwyer agreed to a deal right away. O'Dwyer was to receive €494,665 while Gruissem guaranteed himself €465,135. They left €20,000 in the middle and decided to flip for it.

After two hands of going all in blind, it was done. Gruissem made a full house on the first blind push and the nut straight on the second. O'Dwyer, apparently not very talented at going blind all in, failed to make a hand both times.

Next up is the 3-day €25,750 High Roller to close the week. The Main Event is still ongoing with some huge names left in the field. Both events you can follow on PokerNews.com, your one-stop-shop for anything and everything PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo.

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