Tamas Lendvai

Biography

Tamas Lendvai is a Hungarian, 38-year-old businessman moonlighting as a professional poker player who has been playing cards for about five years. Lendvai’s tournament résumé is impressive by any standards. He’s won just under $500,000 USD in prize money traveling the circuit and has posted cashes on the EPT, APPT, NAPT, WSOP and most recently on the Italian Poker Tour (IPT), where he won the €2,000 buy-in IPT Venice Main Event, scoring a €235,000 payday. Lendvai also cashed in the 2009 APPT Auckland Main Event, finishing in 31st place – good for an NZD $5,523 score, and backed that up with a final table appearance the following year, placing fifth for NZD $40,900.

Profile courtesy of PokerStars, dated September 2010.

Event	Place	Prize
2023 WSOP Paradise Event #10: $5,000 Main Event Championship	348^th	$9,300
2023 WSOP Paradise Event #4: $1,000 Mini Main Event	315^th	$1,700
2023 WSOP Paradise Event #1: $1,500 Mystery Millions	49^th	$11,800
2023 World Series of Poker Event #92: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em Freezeout	116^th	$2,304
2023 World Series of Poker Event #76: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship	409^th	$40,000
2023 World Series of Poker Event #48: $1,000 Seniors Championship	154^th	$5,931
2023 World Series of Poker Event #39: $1,500 Monster Stack	1213^th	$2,401
2023 World Series of Poker Event #37: $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em	124^th	$4,776
2023 World Series of Poker Event #26: $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack	31^st	$12,698
2023 World Series of Poker Event #18: $300 Gladiators of Poker	2043^rd	$601
2023 Wynn Millions $3,500 Main Event	75^th	$12,760
2022 MSPT Venetian Winter $1,100 Main Event	8^th	$13,341
2022 World Series of Poker Event #82: $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack	382^nd	$1,282
2022 World Series of Poker Event #68: $1,000 Million Dollar Bounty	658^th	$2,270
2022 World Series of Poker Event #57: $600 Deepstack Championship No-Limit Hold'em	1^st	$299,464
2022 World Series of Poker Event #47: $1,000 Seniors Championship	239^th	$4,112
2022 MSPT Venetian $1,600 Main Event 197 [$2,000,000 GTD]	50^th	$7,497
2021 World Series of Poker Event #67: $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event World Championship	353^rd	$30,000
2021 World Series of Poker Event #30: $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold'em	398^th	$2,629
2021 World Series of Poker Event #17: $1,500 MILLIONAIRE MAKER No-Limit Hold'em	239^th	$4,900
2019 World Series of Poker Event #61: COLOSSUS - $400 No-Limit Hold'em	1904^th	$600
2019 World Series of Poker Event #3: BIG 50 - $500 No-Limit Hold'em	739^th	$2,850
2018 World Series of Poker Event #7: $565 COLOSSUS No-Limit Hold’em	144^th	$3,754
2017 European Open Special Edition Main Event	31^st	$3,940
2017 World Series of Poker Event #58: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em	58^th	$5,862
2017 World Series of Poker Event #47: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em MONSTER STACK	607^th	$2,873
2017 World Series of Poker Event #5: THE COLOSSUS III - $565 No-Limit Hold'em	1037^th	$1,460
2015 partypoker.net World Poker Tour Montreal Main Event	60^th	8,210 CAD
2014 World Series of Poker Event #55: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em	184^th	$3,202
2014 World Series of Poker Event #19: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em	15^th	$23,486
2013 World Series of Poker Event #49: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em	185^th	$3,003
2011 World Series of Poker Event #45: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em	12^th	$26,192
2011 European Poker Tour Grand Final Madrid Main Event	3^rd	€550,000
2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event	143^rd	$20,000
2010 PokerStars.net APPT Auckland Main Event	5^th	$29,606
2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure 2010 PCA Main Event	20^th	$87,500
2009 PokerStars.net APPT Auckland $3,250 Championship Main Event	31^st	$5,523
2009 PokerStars.com EPT London £5,000 EPT London Main Event	25^th	£15,600

Event

Place

Prize

2023 WSOP Paradise
Event #10: $5,000 Main Event Championship

348^th

$9,300

2023 WSOP Paradise
Event #4: $1,000 Mini Main Event

315^th

$1,700

2023 WSOP Paradise
Event #1: $1,500 Mystery Millions

49^th

$11,800