Table of Biography
Koray Aldemir is a professional German poker player. Koray Aldemir won the $8,000,000 main event prize at the World Series of Poker in 2021.
Early Life and Childhood
Koray Aldemir was born in the year 1990, in Berlin, Germany. His age is currently 33 years old. However, there are no details about his parents and other family members. He holds German nationality but his ethnicity is unknown. Koray has always been secretive about his life and family. There is no additional information about his early life, educational history, and childhood.
Career and Professional Life
Professionally, Koray is a poker player. On New Year’s Eve 2006, Aldemir played poker for the first time at a friend’s house. His first live cash was in a €200 tournament held in Berlin in January 2012 after starting out by participating in freerolls on PokerStars. Aldemir’s account on PokerStars was locked for the following four years after he permitted another player to use it to send money while he was participating in a tournament in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, in 2013. He soon relocated to Vienna to pursue his university studies in psychology.
Caption; Koray Aldemir posing for a photo
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Additionally, Aldemir’s highest career cash prior to the Main Event was $2.1 million, earned when he came in third in the $111,111 One Drop High Roller at the 2016 World Series of Poker. In the Summer Solstice competition that year, he lost to Adrian Mateos for second place. In 2017, Aldemir took home $1.3 million from a Triton high roller win in the Philippines. He earned $480,000 for third place in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in 2018. At the 2019 U.S. Poker Open, he also took home a victory.
Aldemir faced George Holmes head-to-head in the 2021 Main Event after starting the final table with the advantage in chips. Holmes moved all in with K Q on the 223rd hand of the final table on a board of 10 7 2 K 9 and Aldemir called with 10 7 to win the tournament with two pairs.[8] With the victory, he surpassed $20 million in career earnings and rose to the fourth spot in terms of earnings in Germany.
Moreover, Aldemir placed third in the Player of the Year competition at the 2022 WSOP. He also made another deep run in the main event, finishing 75th out of 8,663 players to defend his title. With 15,328 players eliminated over the course of the combined 2021–2022 main events, he established a record for the most players eliminated in a row in main events.
Personal Life
Koray Aldemir is a straight-gender person. As for his marital status, there is no information regarding it. The media is unaware of whether he is single, in a relationship, or married. His love life is a mystery.
Caption: Koray Aldemir with his friend
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Koray Aldemir – Net Worth 2023
This professional poker player has earned a decent amount of money throughout his career. He has a net worth of $684K as of 2023. But he hasn’t disclosed his salary and other asset values.
Social Media
Talking about his social media presence, he is active on social media sites like Instagram and Twitter. His official Instagram account ‘@kooraay90’ has gained more than 10.6K followers and has shared 38 posts. Likewise, he joined Twitter on January 2017 and has more than 8.2K followers on his account ‘@kooraay90’.
Koray Aldemir – Body Measurements
Reflecting on his physical appearance, Koray Aldemir has an athletic body type. However, there are no details about his height, weight, dress size, waist size, shoe size, and so on. But looking at his pictures we can assume that he has a pair of black eyes with black colored hair.
Caption: Koray Aldemir posing for a photo
Source: Instagram