– General Introduction –
Andras Nemeth, better known as his online moniker “probirs”, is a Hungarian professional poker player. His exact ♠ age is unknown, but he’s estimated to be in his late 30’s.
Nemeth is one of the biggest online tournament winners ♠ of all time. While his results are no longer public on the online poker tournament database PocketFives, that wasn’t always ♠ the case. The last time the public got to take a glance at his ever impressive scoresheet, in October 2024, ♠ his career MTT winnings stood atR$17.7 million – which was the largest ever at the time.
However, for unclear reasons, he ♠ decided to hide his online tournament results.
But that doesn’t mean he stopped winning. He has 2 WCOOP and 3 SCOOP ♠ titles. In December 2024, he won two High Roller Millions$ events on the same day on Natural8-GGNetwork, forR$282K andR$24K, respectively.
Nemeth ♠ also hasR$3.495 million in live tournament winnings. That includes a European Poker Tour (EPT) title as well – In 2024, ♠ he won the €25,000 NLHE event at EPT Barcelona.
In August 2024, he took down the weeklyR$10,300 buy-in GG Super MILLION$ ♠ event forR$325,957.
– Key Career Dates –
c. 2009 : He starts playing high stakes online MTT’s on the now defunct sites ♠ Full Tilt, Absolute Poker and UltimateBet.
: He starts playing high stakes online MTT’s on the now defunct sites Full Tilt, ♠ Absolute Poker and UltimateBet. 2024: He wins the €25,000 No Limit Hold’em event at EPT Barcelona for €605,600. That is ♠ the biggest single live tournament cash of his career to date.
He wins the €25,000 No Limit Hold’em event at EPT ♠ Barcelona for €605,600. That is the biggest single live tournament cash of his career to date. 2024: He briefly appears ♠ on top of PocketFives’ all time biggest winners list withR$17.7 million in online MTT earnings. However, a few days later, ♠ he hides his online tournament results from the public.
– Andras Nemeth’s Career –
→ Beginnings ←
Just like with his massive online ♠ tournament winnings, Nemeth is very secretive about his past and personal life as well.
There’s only one brief interview with him ♠ that is still available online, which is in his native language of Hungarian. He was asked about his table in ♠ a tournament at the Unibet Open Prague in 2009. He did give a longer interview to a small Hungarian radio ♠ station in 2009 – however, that recording is gone, only mentions of it remain on the internet.
So we don’t know ♠ anything about Nemeth’s life before poker, nor do we know how he found the game.
All we know is that he ♠ started playing higher stakes tournaments online around 2009-2010, when the local Hungarian online poker media started taking notice of him ♠ and started reporting on his results. He originally played on Absolute Poker, UltimateBet, and Full Tilt – all of those ♠ sites are now gone. He used his classic screen name “probirs” from the very beginning.
By early 2012, he was one ♠ of the top ranked MTT players on the online poker tournament database PocketFives.
→ Live Tournaments ←
Nemeth hasR$3.495 million in live ♠ tournament winnings, according to his Hendon page. That sum is the product of ITM finishes in 59 different tournaments over ♠ the course of 11 years.
The first recorded cash on his profile is a victory right away! He took down the ♠ €1,500 NLHE event at the Austrian Classics for €49,600 in October 2009.
Nemeth was really off to a flying start on ♠ the live felt. The first time he made a tournament score for overR$100K was in the very next month, November ♠ 2009. He finished 4th in the €6,200 NLHE – Lido International Dutch Open event at the Master Classics of Poker ♠ (MCOP) in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Nemeth pocketed no less than €135,432 (which equaled aroundR$201K at the time).
2024 was a truly massive ♠ year for Nemeth.
In August 2024, he won the €25,000 NLHE event at EPT Barcelona for €605,600, which is his biggest ♠ single live tournament score to date. He beat Wai Chan from Malaysia heads-up for the title.
Then, in November 2024, he ♠ came in 5th in theR$25,500 NLHE tournament at the partypoker LIVE Caribbean Poker Party in the Bahamas forR$550,000. To top ♠ off his year, he finished 2nd in the €50,000 EPT Super High Roller in Prague in December, and won €451,350. ♠ That time, he lost the heads-up battle for the title to Austria’s Matthias Eibinger.
In January 2024, he came in 3rd ♠ forR$189,171 in the A$50,000 No Limit Hold’em event at the Australian Poker Open at The Star Gold Coast Casino in ♠ Gold Coast, Australia.
→ World Series of Poker ←
Andras Nemeth is yet to win his first WSOP gold bracelet.
In live World ♠ Series events, he only chased 2 times for a total ofR$45,950 combined. The larger one out of the two cashes ♠ wasR$43,925 for a 7th place finish in theR$3,000 No Limit Hold’em event at the 2024 WSOP.
However, in online events, he ♠ has 8 additional ITM finishes – evidently, online MTT’s are his “home turf”, after all.
In 2024, he came in 28th ♠ in theR$3,200 WSOP ONLINE No Limit Hold’em High Roller forR$9,374.
In 2024, when the Coronavirus pandemic forced all WSOP events to ♠ be played online, Nemeth cashed in 6 of them. He came in 49th in theR$25,000 NLHE Poker Players Championship event ♠ forR$57,592; and finished 44th in theR$10,000 Super MILLION$ event forR$33,973, among others. He added one additional cash to his online ♠ WSOP tally in 2024.
→ Live Cash Games ←
Nemeth hasn’t appeared on any TV show or online live stream where he ♠ played live cash publicly.
→ Online Poker ←
As we wrote in our intro, Andras “probirs” Nemeth’s online MTT results are no ♠ longer visible to the public on PocketFives. However, we do know that his lifetime online tournament winnings are well overR$17 ♠ million.
In October 2024, won theR$2,100 Sunday High Roller on PokerStars and aR$25,000 Invitational Blade High Roller on Natural8-GGNetwork; and also ♠ made another cash in anotherR$25K Blade High Roller, all in the same day. These cashes added up toR$677,000 in MTT ♠ winnings in a single day.
Then, he still had his P5 scoresheet public, so pokernews could report that he reachedR$17.7 million ♠ in career earnings. With that sum, he was on top of the online all time money list, ahead of his ♠ fellow Hungarian Peter “Belabacsi” Traply in second place.
However, shortly after, Nemeth decided to hide his MTT results.
We still know some ♠ of his biggest scores, as the online poker media reports on them regularly.
He has won two World Championship of Online ♠ Poker (WCOOP) titles: he took down theR$530+R NLHE 8-Max event forR$79,655 and theR$5,200 PLO 6-Max High Roller event forR$140,506, both ♠ in September 2024. In addition, he has 3 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) victories as well.
In December 2024, while ♠ playing under his alternate screen name “PokerBluff1” on Natural8-GGNetwork, he took down theR$10,000 High Roller MILLION$ Main Event forR$282,393, and ♠ theR$1,000 High Roller MILLION$ PLO event forR$24,048 on the very same day.
In August 2024, Nemeth topped a star-studded field in ♠ theR$10,300 buy-in GG Super MILLION$ forR$325,957. He beat Russian pro Artur Martirosyan heads-up for the title.
The online high stakes cash ♠ game database has 53,497 hands tracked on his “probirs” account on PokerStars. In that sample, he’s upR$249,785, playing mostlyR$50/$100 No ♠ Limit Hold’em.
