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“I arrived quite early today and had a nice breakfast,” he tells. Hoepfner might only have two cashes on his Hendon Mob profile – a deep run in a side event at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague 2022, and a World Series of Poker Europe cash from 2015, when the festival was held in Berlin – but this is the third time he’s played poker here in Rozvadov. “So on the way back I picked up the car and came here.” “I had to go to Munich for work a week ago,” he continues. “I entered a €16.50 satellite and ran it up to the €162 qualifier,” he tells us. That’s exactly what happened to get him to EUREKA Rozvadov 2023. The 37-year-old from Berlin works as a Sales Manager for a battery supply company by day, but every now and then he fires up his PokerStars client in the evening and tries to qualify for a big live tournament. SCRATCHING THE ITCHīut occasionally, Yan Niclas Hoepfner – like many of you reading probably do, too – feels the itch to play something bigger.

Plus, there’s nothing more fun than bluffing your closest compadres. Poker is an incredibly fun game to play with your pals, the perfect excuse to get together around a table and catch up. In fact, that’s probably true of the vast majority of poker players around the world.Īnd it’s not surprising. But that hasn’t stopped him from working on his poker game. I had some online cashes but I never tried to be a professional, he says.

He considers himself a casual player who just plays for fun now and then. That’s probably the case for many of you reading, too. The 1,100 EUREKA Rozvadov Main Event buy-in is much larger than the stakes Yan Niclas Hoepfner usually plays. “I would say I only play poker once a week,” Yan Niclas Hoepfner tells us.