Max Neugebauer

Max Neugebauer

Max Neugebauer

GPI:456

$1,770,749

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Profile

Name
Max Neugebauer
Nationality
Austria
GPI Rank
456
WPT Wins
Total Live Earnings
$1,770,749

Biography

Born in 1997, Max Neugebauer is a professional poker player from Austria. He is best known for winning the 2023 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event.

He prevailed over a record-setting field of 817 players to earn the title, his first bracelet and 1,500,000 ($1,631,588) top prize. He did it in spectacular fashion, with an epic hero call against Eric Tsai that ensured his name would forever be etched in WSOP lore.

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Before Poker

Neugebauer is a poker world champion, but his first career aspirations were in a different game. He was a professional basketball player before turning to poker, playing for BC Vienna in the Austrian first division. He also represented the Austrian Under-18 team. When his athletic career came to a premature end, poker seemed like a perfect avenue to funnel his competitive fire.

I had huge knee problems. When I stopped playing basketball, I started playing poker as well. Just the competition part and the part about improving and working on your game were really important to me, and I felt like there was some void that needed to be filled. Poker was that for me, he told PokerNews.

Neugebauers previous best tournament cash was for $27,000 in a tournament in Las Vegas in June 2023. He also cashed twice at the summer's 2023 WSOP. His total live earnings stood at just $84,000 before his Main Event win, and the first prize he earned dwarfed anything on his poker resume.

PokerNews Covered Events

EventPlacePrize
2023 PokerStars EPT Prague5,300 EPT Main Event15th€50,800
2023 PokerStars EPT Prague1,100 Eureka Main Event71st€7,860
2023 WSOP EuropeEvent #13: 10,350 Main Event NLH European Championship1st€1,500,000
2023 World Series of PokerEvent #81: $600 Ultra Stack343rd$1,860
2023 World Series of PokerEvent #39: $1,500 Monster Stack206th$7,807
2022 PokerStars EPT Prague5,300 EPT Prague Main Event64th€15,100
2022 PokerStars EPT Prague1,100 Eureka Main Event526th€1,700
2020 GGPker WSOP Online Bracelet EventsEvent #57: $150 GGMasters WSOP Edition Freezeout, $1M GTD971st$382